Ding-Dong, The Shaman's Dead!

Ordinarily, I don't indulge in posthumous acrimony, but in this case, I feel obliged to make an exception.

We're all aware that Jerry Falwell has passed away.

Inerrantist, evangelist, raving anti-Semite, two-faced conniver, he convinced a large majority (the Moron Majority, I like to call them) to stick their collective ignorant noses into American politics, with disastrous results. He personally made it his business to implement the Shrub dynasty, pushed a Dominionist platform, and by and large, violated many key tenets of the Founding Fathers.

The man flip-flopped on a regular basis, from his segregationist pro-to-con stance to civil rights to homosexual rights...it's a long list, and a nauseating one, to boot.

Good riddance. He was a boil on the tuchis of humanity, a perfect example of how religion turns people into lunatics, and I wish I could find some kind words in me at his demise, but the only quote that springs to mind is: "Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it; he died as one that had been studied in his death to throw away the dearest thing he owed, as 't were a careless trifle". - (Act I, Scene IV), Macbeth.

ADDENDUM - Hitchens goes for broke in the following two videos (tip of the hat to Pharyngula):

 

 

Now for a bit of hilarity from the Family Guy - Robertson and Falwell.

Good-bye, Falwell: the world's better off without you.