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To: VRWCmember

And based on my conversations with my relatives who attended his college, your characterization of my characterization of Falwell as utter hogwash is utter hogwash.


165 posted on 01/08/2008 9:03:22 AM PST by flowerplough (Thompson should be the next president and Reagan should be the next face on Mt. Rushmore)
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To: flowerplough

“And based on my conversations with my relatives who attended his college, your characterization of my characterization of Falwell as utter hogwash is utter hogwash.”

Excellent post - a quadruple negative, or something. Very crafty. Good job.

I like your tagline also.


171 posted on 01/08/2008 9:09:06 AM PST by Sunnyflorida (Drill in the Gulf of Mexico/Anwar, etc and we can join OPEC!!!)
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To: flowerplough
And based on my conversations with my relatives who attended his college, your characterization of my characterization of Falwell as utter hogwash is utter hogwash.

Well, let's consider your initial hyperbole to which I responded.

Baptist Preacher Falwell’s politics seemed to be mostly about Pope Falwell enjoying ordering his subjects to vote as he decreed.
"Pope" Falwell as you called him was a pastor of a church and the president of a distinctly Christian university. In those capacities, he preached what he believed to be sound doctrine from the Scriptures and stated the mission and various positions of the university. When he got involved in the "political" scene it was to the extent of identifying how certain political and social views and agendas aligned with Biblical doctrine and with the mission and objectives of the university. (Just about any preacher on the left or right does the same thing rather frequently.) This is far from "ordering" his followers, or his faculty or students, to "vote as he decreed". And nobody that I have ever talked to who actually knew Falwell would suggest the he considered anyone in his church or at his university a "subject".

For the most part, hateful hyperbole = hogwash (usually)

190 posted on 01/08/2008 12:21:30 PM PST by VRWCmember
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