Rev. Jerry Falwell Hospitalized (Start the deathwatch clock)

[Ian David]

(CBS/AP) The Rev. Jerry Falwell has checked into a hospital for treatment of a viral infection.

Falwell, 71, was taken Sunday to Lynchburg General Hospital after falling ill at a church service. He had battled a severe cold last week and saw a doctor Friday.

It's not considered dangerous," said Falwell, a television evangelist and chancellor of Liberty University in Lynchburg. "It is just troublesome. I am going to be here a few days."

Falwell said doctors planned to keep him at the hospital "until my lungs clear."

More:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/22/national/main675338.shtml


Latest updates via Google:
http://news.google.com/news?q=Jerry+Falwell+Hospital&num=100&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d

[Democrats_win]

1. God's judgement reigning down on Falwell for standing by bush.

[LevineAvi]

2. He'll be out by

Sunday. It's probably a "Michael Jackson" flu!!!

[WoodrowFan]

3. can he feel the flames

lapping at his feet yet? Time to repent Jerry, or else it's the eternal down elevator for you!

[liberal N proud]

4. I saw him on CNN or MSNBC a couple of weeks ago

The makeup he had was hideous!
Looked like he had fallen face first in the batter for KFC.

[TwentyFive]

5. Is G-d striking out at Falwell?

Must be something to do with is evilness.</sarcasm>

[tsuki]

6. Maybe his buddy Rev Moon will rush to his side and take up the

reins of the moral majority.

[Ian David]

10. FALWELL AND THE CHARISMATICS

While Dr. Jerry Falwell claims to be a 'Fundamentalist Baptist,' his willingness to compromise is very evident for all to see. TO PARTICIPATE IN A RELIGIOUS SERVICE WITH THOSE WHO ACCEPT EXTRA-BIBLICAL REVELATIONS REVEALS DR. FALWELL'S DISOBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH. God's Word teaches that no one is to add to or subtract anything from the written Word of God (Revelation 22:18-19).

Dr. Falwell sat on the platform at the Leadership Rally on April 29th while Richard Roberts was publicly claiming that God had physically touched him and given him a prophecy that needed to be delivered at this WFJ Rally.

Would any Bible-believing Fundamentalist participate with Charismatics who were speaking in tongues, honoring women clergy, hosting a signs and wonders healing crusade, and letting the Christian rock musicians provide the entertainment, basing all of it on a 'prophetic revelation' by some women in Baltimore in 1992? The obvious answer is 'NO.'

This report is excerpted from the July 1996 issue of the ACCC Challenge. For a copy of the full report, contact the American Council of Christian Churches, P.O. Box 19, Wallingford, PA 19086-0019. [phone]. Please include a gift to cover expenses.

More:
http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/falwellandcharismatics.htm

[tsuki]

48. I am not worried about his "fundamentalism" or his "charismatics,"

I am worried about his ties to the infamous Rev. Moon who has stated publically that he has nothing for contempt for democracy and when he is acknowledged as the Messiah (Jesus was a failed Messiah,) he will take care of the problem.

From http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Moonies/jerry_falwell_and_myung_moon.htm

At about that same time, in January 1995, Reber and Thomas were completing their purchase of about one-half of Liberty University's debt, much of it for a fraction of the face value. The big losers included 2,500 bondholders who invested in the Texas-based Church & Institutional Facilities Development Corp., which had owned $12 million of the school's debt. Reber and Thomas scooped up the bonds at a bankruptcy fire sale for about 20 percent of their value, or $2.5 million.

Many bondholders were "mom and pops cashing in their IRA money because their local minister and Falwell's letters said they'd be doing God's work," recalled Doug Hudman, a lawyer in the case. "The true victims are the mom-and-pop believers who think their money was going to a good cause. All it was doing was going to fund Mr. Falwell's continued indebtedness. It's kind of sickening."

But Falwell told reporters that it was just a question of luck. "When the bankruptcy trustee called in all the notes and put them up for sale, anyone could have bought them," Falwell said. "That was fortunate for us."

Anyone who things Falwell is not B&P knows nothing about Moon.

[AlCzervik]

7. you do realize that this bastard will out live us all.

[Moderator]

8. This is a duplicate of a thread that was removed

Please be aware that comments that cross the line into bad taste will be removed. This thread will be removed as well if comments get too out of bounds.

[bunkerbuster1]

34. I started that thread

I was wondering what had happened to it.

For the record, I want Jerry to recover. I want him around to see his agenda crash and burn.

[ronnykmarshall]

41. I'll be goooood!

:evilgrin:

[Hoping4Change]

9. I wonder if Falwell ever got a flu shot this year? Wouldn't be

ironic if the lack of flu shots in the US this year brought about the demise of a shrub supporter.

[matcom]

11. Crabs? VD? AIDS?

:shrug:

[Skidmore]

24. Remember that line from

the Voice of the White House this week:

"This is not going to go away and I can see it as a lovely vehicle for outing all kinds of the Beltway prominenten starting with one Supreme Court Justice, several governors (all Republican) and at least one very prominent televangelist."

Maybe ole Jer has Gannon flu.

[renaissanceguy]

32. Where's that quote from?

And what's it referring to? I must've missed it.

[Skidmore]

33. Link and scroll down to about the 7nth paragraph of article

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1396.htm#001

[FlyByNight]

12. Apparently, he's not praying with enough conviction

:evilgrin:

[Brooklyn Michael]

13. You know what they say.....

"Only the good die young".....so Jerry's not going anywhere for a while.

[Fridays Child]

14. Hey, Jer, check out the gaping maw of hell, and be thinking of how...

...you'll want to decorate your room when you get there.

[da_chimperor]

15. I'd wish him well, if he were someone else

but he's still a hate-mongering prick, so he'll get no condolences from me. What happens, happens.

[Ian David]

16. He just doesn't want Gene Scott to upstage him

Televangelist Gene Scott Dies at Age 75



<snip>

Gene Scott, the shaggy-haired, cigar-smoking televangelist whose eccentric religious broadcasts were beamed around the world, has died, a family spokesman said. He was 75.

Scott died Monday after suffering a stroke, said the spokesman, Robert Emmers.

The longtime pastor of Los Angeles University Cathedral began hosting a nightly television broadcast of Bible teaching in the mid-1970s. His University Network eventually aired a nightly talk show and Sunday morning church services on radio and television stations in about 180 countries.

<snip>

For those of you unfamiliar with Gene Scott, eccentric -- and entertaining -- was an apt description of him. Here on the West Coast he was a fixture on TV, but he wasn't a hellfire and brimstone type of evangelist -- he was more focused on educating those that he preached to.

More:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1256670

See also:

Usenet Group: alt.fan.gene-scott
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.gene-scott

[underpants]

17. Thank you God

now about that Robertson guy.........

[Ian David]

18. Remember, Robertson asked people to pray supreme court justices would die?

Of course, we wouldn't do that to Robertson, would we?


Praying For Supreme Court Shake Up
NORFOLK, Virginia, July 15, 2003

(CBS/AP) Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson urged his nationwide audience Monday to pray for God to remove three justices from the Supreme Court so they could be replaced by conservatives.

"We ask for miracles in regard to the Supreme Court," Robertson said on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "The 700 Club."

Robertson has launched a 21-day "prayer offensive" directed at the Supreme Court in the wake of its 6-3 June vote that decriminalized sodomy. Robertson said in a letter on the CBN Web site that the ruling "has opened the door to homosexual marriage, bigamy, legalized prostitution and even incest."

The same letter targets three justices in particular: "One justice is 83-years-old, another has cancer and another has a heart condition. Would it not be possible for God to put it in the minds of these three judges that the time has come to retire?"

More:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/15/politics/main563247.shtml

See also:

Pat Robertson and The Supremes
... his TV pulpit this week to pray for the retirement of three Supreme Court justices? ...
but soon found itself replaced by Pat Robertson's multimedia Christian ...
www.keithboykin.com/arch/000789.html

Gay News From 365Gay.com
... Virginia Beach, Virginia) Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson has dropped ... urging
his followers to pray with him ... in regard to the Supreme Court,'' Robertson said ...
365gay.com/NewsContent/071503robinsonSodomy.htm

Pat Robertson and his Prayer Death Squad: Targets the US Supreme ...
... you to kill off a few Supreme Court justices that ... In your Glorious name Lord Jesus,
this I pray. A chronically constipated Pat Robertson tries to think of whom ...(SATIRE)
www.bettybowers.com/nl_prayersquad.html

[BR_Parkway]

29. Actually Pat, the Bible opened the door to incest and bigamy, Jeff

GanGuck seems to have forced the Freepers to OK prostitution in all it's forms, Wow- with all that support he's getting, one of us homos needs to make him a marraige proposal - no one on the other side would deny Gannon that either.

[Megahurtz]

19. His gluttony

is catching up with him.:puffpiece:

[pelagius]

20. I don't know what he did for Christianity...

...but Gene Scott was a veritable ambassador for Surrealism. RIP.

[Ian David]

21. Falwell's Illness-- The ACLU can't take the blame for this

I point my finger at The Christian Coalition and The 700 Club and say,'you helped this happen'.



Transcript of Entire Robertson - Falwell Interview Available

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 17, 2001
6:23 PM
CONTACT: People for the American Way

WASHINGTON - September 17 - In recent days, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell have accused People For the American Way and reporters of taking comments made last week by Falwell and Robertson "out of context." Reporters can now access on People For the American Way's Web site (http://www.pfaw.org) a transcript of the entire Falwell interview from Robertson's 700 Club television program on Thursday, Sept. 13.

Transcript of Pat Robertson's Interview with Jerry Falwell
From the 9-13-01 edition of The 700 Club

<snip>

JERRY FALWELL: It could be. I've never sensed a togetherness, a burden, a broken heart as I do in the Church today, and just 48 hours, I gave away a booklet I wrote 10 years ago. I gave it away last night on the Biblical position on fasting and prayer because I do believe that that is what we've got to do now-- fast and pray. And I agree totally with you that the Lord has protected us so wonderfully these 225 years. And since 1812, this is the first time that we've been attacked on our soil, first time, and by far the worst results. And I fear, as Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense said yesterday, that this is only the beginning. And with biological warfare available to these monsters; the Husseins, the Bin Ladens, the Arafats, what we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact, if in fact God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

PAT ROBERTSON: Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major population.

JERRY FALWELL: The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

PAT ROBERTSON: Well, yes.

JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen'.

More:
http://www.commondreams.org/news2001/0917-03.htm

[Megahurtz]

23. Der Furher trained these guys well $$$$$$$$$

:puke:

[icymist]

47. Every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great.

If a sperm gets wasted, God gets quite irate!
-Monty Python

[yellowcanine]

22. Hmm. Pat Robertson fatwah?

[Ian David]

26. Everyone is asking who leads the evangelical movement.

Evangelical movement stand out by influence and popularity

22 Feb 2005

Christianity Today:

When the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals in 2001 provocatively named Tim LaHaye "the most influential American Evangelical of the last 25 years," few took notice. But since the presidential election, both religious and mainstream media have been trying to map the tricky network and hierarchy of the popeless priesthood of evangelical believers. Evangelicals are now seen as key political influencers, so observers want to know: Who's influencing them?

New York Times columnist David Brooks came early to the fight, challenging fellow journalists to stop quoting Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Evangelicals agree.
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1290883/posts


A spring 2004 poll from PBS's Religion and Ethics Newsweekly found that only 23 percent of self-described evangelicals had "warm or positive feelings" toward Falwell. Robertson scored higher, at 34 percent, but still far below Pope John Paul II (44 percent) and James Dobson (40 percent).
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week733/questionnaire.pdf


<snip>

The real spokesperson for evangelicalism, said Brooks, is John Stott, who is "always bringing people back to the concrete reality of Jesus' life and sacrifice."


More:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/108/12.0.html

[mandyky]

25. In the spirit of SCOTUS judges should we pray for him?

As that saintly Pat Robertson suggested not long ago...?

[Ian David]

28. No, don't pray for ill or harm. Honor him with an HRC Gift Membership

That's right, I suggest making a donation in Jerry Falwell's name to The Human Rights Campaign (part of "the homosexual agenda.")

http://www.hrc.org/Content/NavigationMenu/HRC/Get_Informed/Issues/Index.htm



It’s the perfect answer for holidays and birthdays. An HRC gift membership makes a real difference in the fight to end the discrimination faced by GLBT Americans.

All HRC gift memberships of $35 or more include a cuddly Equality bear and a personalized gift card with your special note. Don’t forget: a $50 also includes an HRC Cap! (See below for more details.)


# a cuddly Equality bear,
# a personalized gift card with your special note,
# a subscription to our Equality magazine, and
# lots of ways to get more involved.

Contributions or gifts to the Human Rights Campaign are not tax deductible as charitable contributions or as business expenses under IRC Section162(e).

Purchase a Human Rights Campaign Gift Membership for Jerry Falwell:
https://secure.ga3.org/03/honorandgift1?source=Y05YGMGGX


Show Jerry Falwell that you care.


When you purchase your gift memberships, have your personalized cards (with your own message) and teddy bears sent to:

Jerry Falwell Ministries
1971 University Blvd
Lynchburg, VA
24514-4514
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Web: www.falwell.com
Email: [e-mail]

[NVMojo]

27. just like tinkerbell ....I believe, I believe, I believe ...

and keep hoping to read a headline like this about KKKarl.

Spank me!!! Evil girl!!!

[Kansas Wyatt]

30. Let us prey for Fat Daddy Blowfish's speedy recovery...

Dear Lord,

Fat Daddy Blowfish didn't really mean it when he said that he wanted Bush to bomb and kill people. Please let Fat Daddy Blowfish live longer, so he can help bring us our beloved Rapture.

Amen...

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

31. But, why go to the hospital where they believe in that nasty ol' science?

Falwell apparently only stands for his convictions (e.g., faith in goD over science) when it suits his purposes...standard Xtian hypocritical bullshit.

JB

[maxrandb]

42. My Thoughts Exactly

Why go to the hospital?? I mean it must be "God's will" that your sick. If God wants you to get better, you'll get better. Let the chips fall were they may.

Besides, I thought he was just going to be "raptured" away while the rest of us get tattooed with the sign of the beast and all that.

Gunny Sergeant Hartman to Private Pyle: "Don't make any fucking effort numbnuts. If God had wanted you on the top of that obstacle, he'd have miracled your ass up there".

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

50. Great Full Metal Jacket quote. n/t

JB

[UpInArms]

35. every day we are given chances to see ourselves

Here's Fallflops opportunity.   May his eye opening be all
that he deserves it to be.

[MadisonProgressive]

36. If it's not considered dangerous - why is he in the hospital?

Dear Lord, please do that voodoo that you do - so well!!

[Emboldened Chimp]

37. Larry Flynt is licking his chops...

and rubbing his hands with glee right about now...

[diamond14]

38. falwell should THANK bush* for failing to provide FLU vaccines on time

this is a DIRECT result of bush* failure to PROVIDE FLU VACCINES on time to all AMERICANS.....and falwell is now hospitalized with his LUNGS full of fluid...well...thank bush* for that....many many SENIORS are dying from this bush* failure....it's a FULL BLOWN EPIDEMIC in Virginia...





http://www.cdc.gov/

[Name removed]

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[Swamp Rat]

40. ... must ... bite ... tongue ...

:silly:

[DesEtoiles]

43. Smell the brimstone, Jerry

[oasis]

44. Please Rev. Falwell, call off the mud slides in California. Please spare

those evil Hollywood sinners.

[peekaloo]

45. I hope a male nurse administers his sponge bath.

[Ian David]

61. You mean his SPONGEBOB Bath!

SpongeBob SquarePants bath sponge with holder

Removable bath sponge featuring the face of SpongeBob SquarePants

Bath sponge can be used for washing or playing

Unique sponge holder that replicates SpongeBob's pants, including suction cup that adheres to bath tub or almost any surface

http://www.3m.com/us/home_leisure/o-cel-o/SpongeBob.jhtml

[tom_paine]

46. Maybe he will get the room in Hell next to Hitler's Reichsbishop

After all, they both perform the same function for THE PARTY.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/church_in_nazi_germany.htm

Say a warm howdy to Mr. Mueller for us when you get down there, Jerry!

[cornermouse]

49. Sounds like special treatment to me...

Normally people are out of there in less than 24 hours if they're still capapble of forming complete sentences....

[daleo]

51. He will have a vision, that will cost his followers tens of millions.

Watch for it, he will have a vision that requires raising tens of millions from his dupes for some stupid project or another. Maybe a 100 foot high statue of the ten commandments.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

52. i can't even muster up a smidgen of sympathy for that man..God forgive me?

[Blaq Dem]

53. LOL Ooh, you're so bad!!! LOL

Maybe someone ought to cut his healthcare plan just as Bush wants to cut medicaid for the poor.

[proudbluestater]

54. Will he miss the Raputre then?

[Zorro]

55. I'm praying the Lord calls him real soon

That pig-eyed hatemonger has infested this world for waaaayyy too long.

[SodoffBush]

56. Is he dead yet?

Keep me posted.

[The Zanti Regent]

57. Go Bird Flu Go!

Get him real good Bird Flu!

[LiberallyInclined]

58. flesh-eating virus would be even better...

and more befitting.

[CO Liberal]

60. Falwell IS a Flesh-Eating Virus!

:-)

[autorank]

59. What's the difference between being "raptured" and "ruptured?"

:shrug:

[Vidar]

62. "Taking God's name in vain" is what Jerry is all about.

That commandment doesn't refer to casual use of the word "god*amn", but rather to the false,deceptive manipulation of the honestly religious for evil and personal gain. May he he burn in the hell he loves to preach.