You force me to choose between regarding myself as "perfect" and a lifetime of self-flagellation for sins, both committed and perceived. What on earth is the reason why I have to pick only one or the other? I repeat: "I refuse to bear the brunt of a hypothetical sin committed by an imaginary man and woman in an allegorical story from an ancient book written in the middle east thousands of years back. I am responsible for my actions only." I never claimed to be perfect. I only ask to be judged by the actual wrongs that I actually commit. Don't put words in my mouth.
You say: "I can't answer your question with regard to finding a cure for AIDS, Cancer, etc, if you don't accept the notion that we are all fallen."
You can't answer my questions because you limit the scope of your search for answers to ancient books. I accept the logical cause of death. If I were to be eaten by a lion in the jungle, then that doesn't mean I died because of sin. I died because the lion ate me, plain and simple.
Getting back on topic, Falwell said: "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.' "
What stupidity! The 9-11 attacks were perpetrated by Muslims, who hate the people Falwell mentions above at least as much as he does. How on earth does two lesbians going at it in their bedroom in their home in, say, Phoenix, lead to planes crashing into the WTC towers in NY? Sheer stupidity!
