R.I.P. Jerry

This means more to the Americans than to New Zealanders, but Jerry Falwell died. He seem to have been a strident opponant of ill-doing and iniquity everywhere, rather like a turbo-charged Patricia Batlett. He put on that breastplate of righteousness, and the helmet of salvation. I suspect he even girt his loins about with truth, and maybe completed the ensemble with the shield of faith, the sword of the spirit and the sandals of peace. I found a few quotes from him online, and I profoundly regret that he was not more prominent in New Zealand. If he were I would always have had someone to laugh at.

-Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan.

-The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

-I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed.

-If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

-You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away -- you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes.... Other cars on the highway driven by believers will suddenly be out of control and stark pandemonium will occur on ... every highway in the world where Christians are caught away from the drivers wheel.

Oh well, at least we've still got Michael Laws.