Add Homonym Attacks! #46
Ad Hominem: Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason.
Ad Hominem Attack: An argument that focuses on a personal attack as opposed to the subject in question.
Add Homonym Attacks!: The process by which one inserts a homophone and it bites you.
(It also serves as the title to Inside Pulse Beyond the Threshold’s representative column in the world of Critical Thinking, Science and Skepticism.)
Intro
This week’s column is dedicated to a special person, one known and loved by atheists everywhere. I encourage people to write in and share their touching stories about this man
Jerry Falwell
Yes, Jerry Falwell is no longer with us. Jerry Falwell was a man who wore many hats: idiot televangelist, creator of the straight-to-video conspiracy theory “documentary”The Clinton Chronicles: An Investigation into the Alleged Criminal Activities of Bill Clinton, arch nemesis of Tinky-Winky the Teletubby (he didn’t write the actual article though it did appear in his magazine), suer of pornography, taunter of Desmond Tutu, suspected junk bond guru, champion of the Apocalypse, and dude who was always suspicious of Dr. Martin Luther King and would refer to it as the “civil wrongs movement”.
So long, you crazy cocksucking bastard.
Today, we celebrate you in your own words.
(A few of these quotes are stolen from Positive Atheism)
Jerry Falwell on 9/11:
God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
and
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.”
-Both from The Washington Post September 14, 2001
Jery Falwell on fancy book learning:
The Bible is the inerrant … word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.
Jerry Falwell on Prostitution:
Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.
-Crossfire, May 17, 1997
Jerry Falwell on Unions:
Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.
Jerry Falwell on Integration:
If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God’s word and had desired to do the Lord’s will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision [Brown v. Board of Education] would never have been made…. The facilities should be separate. When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line.
Goodbye Jerry!
There is no heaven.
