Sometimes it seems that the good people go too soon while shitheads live forever. Those were my exact thoughts when Kam told me Jerry Falwell was on his deathbed. He'd tried that stunt before, each time getting better and thanking his congregation who, no doubt, put their homes up for mortgage in the hopes that god will spare him. I thought it was another ploy to extort money from those that had fallen for it before.

No. Thank god, he's dead. Someone who chose to use his massive influence to cause strife rather than hope, someone who decided to make the world worse off when he left it is gone. He should not be mourned.

This is a man that forced his views on millions of people, someone so egotistical as to believe his opinions were the only ones worth having. He decided what was "moral" and all those he spoke against that were ostracized. He bullied his way into politics where he took more credit for change than he actually accomplished. In his lifetime he manuevered the country further into intolerance, religious fanatacism and false piety that left a legacy that persists to this day.

He narrow minded view of religion, of god and morality has sickened the culture of this country. He thrived on people's fear and ignorance to make this a more dangerous, more hateful world. If he truly believed in the religion he claimed to follow, he would see he has blasphemed greater than anyone he has ever condemned.

It is a great day. The world is a little brighter without him.