Who do you think will go to heaven?

“The ACLU’s got to take a lot of blame for this. And, I know that I’ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God or successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. 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’.”

– Jerry Falwell, The 700 Club, 9/13/01

Um. This man is an idiot. A hateful, delusional, self-motivated idiot. I sincerely hope this is the last time this asshole is ever heard from in a public forum.

On to more important matters. This past summer, there was a reality series on Fox called Murder in Small Town X, which was basically a long murder mystery dinner game enacted in great detail for television. I only saw the two-hour finale, but it was very engrossing. The winner of the game was an NYC firefighter named Angel Juarbe. You can probably see what’s coming. Angel was among the hundreds of firefighters inside the World Trade Center when it collapsed. He’s still unaccounted for, as confirmed by friends and the producers of the show. I remember him saying at the end of the show that even though he won the money (I forget how much it was. A hundred thousand, I think?) he wasn’t going to give up his job, because firefighting was what he wanted to do. Reportedly his unit was among the first on the scene. Apparently he was on the phone with a friend when it happened and cut the call short, saying, “I gotta go… I have to go to the World Trade Center.” Here’s hoping, for the sake of his family and friends, that he turns up soon.