The Left and Falwell

The Populist (EDITED) on the reaction of some ‘progressives’ (bloggers and commenters) on Falwell’s death yesterday:

I just want to say that I am disgusted by the vile hate and nastiness, that I have been reading on the Liberal Blogs. You idiots ought to be ashamed of yourselves! I didn’t care for Falwell either, because I am somewhat of a Fundamentalist, Albeit, a more progressive one, Christian, and Falwell walked away from Fundamentalism, and rejected the King James Version of the Bible as a antiquated version of the Bible, and gravitated towards the evangelical movement. For some very good reasons, I feel. Further more, He embraced the ecumenical movement, Which true-blue Fundamentalists reject as not scriptural. Of which I agree. However, to bash a dead man to the point of just being vile, is just plain disgusting and wrong, and totally reprehensible. I’m ashamed of the blogging community, you guys are just wrong. and I’m quite frankly embarrassed to be a part of this. My Point is this, Just because you don’t like someone or disagree with his Political stance or Religious Beliefs, it does not give you a license to be uncivil and asinine.

I agree completely: some of the comments I read were highly insensitive, rude and, yes, even hateful. Ironically enough, that’s exactly what those same people say about Falwell.

Many of them are not much ‘better’ than Falwell: they are just two sides of the same coin.