A life dedicated to a false belief, how sad.

As an admitted non-believer, I am getting a lot of correspondences about the death of Mr. Jerry Falwell, may his consciousness dissipate without a trace. May the world not miss a beat due to his absence.

Why should I greave the loss of this freedom hating zealot? He was a man who thinks his god wants to punish the very democracy that allowed him to preach his brand of the one true faith, a faith that literally says to hell with all who believe differently than I.

For a list of Mr. Falwell's most famous digressions from morality, ethics, and the law visit The Carpetbagger Report. Probably my favorite because it shows he, like many of Abraham’s God’s followers, puts God aside when it comes to achieving a personal standard of power play.

Falwell is criticized for using his “Old Time Gospel Hour” to hawk a scurrilous video called “The Clinton Chronicles” that makes a number of unsubstantiated charges against President Bill Clinton — among them that he is a drug addict and that he arranged the murders of political enemies in Arkansas. Despite claims he had no ties to the project, evidence surfaced that Falwell helped bankroll the venture with $200,000 paid to a group called Citizens for Honest Government (CHG). CHG’s Pat Matrisciana later admitted that Falwell and he staged an infomercial interview promoting the video in which a silhouetted reporter said his life was in danger for investigating Clinton. (Matrisciana himself posed as the reporter.) “That was Jerry’s idea to do that,” Matrisciana recalled. “He thought that would be dramatic.”

I can only hope that moments before he totally ceased to be aware that he realized that all he had preached about the afterlife was a lie.

A life dedicated to a false belief, how sad।