Showing posts with label Alice Walker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alice Walker. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Farewell to Falwell

While the media polishes Jerry Falwell's biography, I'll remember him as a smug, holier-than-thou spewer of hate - more political that spiritual, more self-righteous than insightful and more divisive than uniting.

His high profile on 24-hour news programs provided him with a public forum in which he became a leader of knuckle-dragging idiots, too stupid to think rationally and too slack-jawed to know any better.

If I were a Christian, I'd be ashamed to be associated with people like that. In an interview with Shambala Sun, Alice Walker shared her insights about Christianity:


"I love Jesus; I think Jesus was wonderful. However, I think he has been distorted terribly. I want to see the wizardry of Jesus restored. I want to feel his dancing quality and his joyfulness. It's a terrible thing that they have left him in that tortured, naked condition, which is bound to frighten most children. Just imagine if he were depicted like the Buddha. I love the way the Buddha goes through all his changes and he's basically very happy. Suffering is not the end-all in life. It is a part of it, and then we rise above it, we work through it, we transform it. Jesus did that."
Jerry Falwell is gone and the world is a lighter place in his absence.