D. James Kennedy: dead


I guess now he’ll be able to sit down and have a little chat with Hitler and find out if he really was a godless atheist who got all his ideas from Darwin. I doubt that he’ll be able to ask Darwin directly, though — I’m pretty sure they’re in very different places.

At least, that would be the case if his beliefs were anywhere near correct. Personally, I think he’s erased.

Comments

  1. Moses says

    Falwell. Kennedy. I’m hoping for Donohue or Dobson next, because they’re two of the worst hate-group leaders, but I’ll settle for Robertson…

  2. raven says

    No big deal. Kennedy is now back home in hades having a beer with satan and planning their next assignment. These aren’t evil people, they are demons on detached surface duty.

    It’s a fundie thing. You wouldn’t understand.

  3. says

    Someone on IIDB said he was going downhill several months ago (this poster *knew* Kennedy– dont know how).

    *sigh of relief*

  4. Nan says

    Dobson’s my choice for the next to go — and in an ideal world he’ll expire in an airport men’s room while on his knees. His open advocacy of corporeal punishment of very young children has always made him seem especially creepy and/sadistic to me.

  5. True Bob says

    Man, I thought corporal punishment was harsh, but he was into corporeal punishment? Bastard.

  6. natural cynic says

    Remember what Thumper said to Bambi:
    “If ya’ can’t say sumpthin’ nice about somebody, don’t say nuthin’ at all.”
    As for Kennedy,

    ‘Kay.

  7. Greg B says

    OK Quick. Lock the door to the room where he died. Don’t let anyone in or out for 3 days. Then go back and check to see if he’s still there.

    I mean, they forgot to do that with Falwell. Let’s not miss this chance.

  8. LanceR says

    If there is a hell, I hope pineapples are involved.

    Pineapples? Hmm… I am intrigued by your position, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
    <evil grin>

  9. True Bob says

    Really, what’s to say. He was an asshole in life, and now he’s dead. Unavoidable fate for us all.

  10. says

    If there is a hell, I hope pineapples are involved.

    I hear that the coleslaw they serve down there has bits of pineapples in it.

  11. says

    Do you think he’s in the ‘*catheter room’ with Lucy?

    Just a thought…. >:)

    * Go watch Mr. Deity for an explanation!

    Robert

  12. says

    Credit where it’s due, Kennedy was a good example of how humans are evolved apes with a marked ability to agree with others in their social group, in controversion of all actual evidence. Trouble was, those most needing to see what an ignorant and lying sap he was could not do so.

    A bit of sadness for the parting of one of us (and come on, he was one of us, if a better example of our ill tendencies than of our good ones). And condolences to his family. Otherwise, I can’t think of many more deserving, this side of maximum security anyway.

    Glen D
    http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7

  13. J-Dog says

    D. James Kennedy, Please report to the Hell Fire, your room is now ready. D. James kennedy, Please report to the Hell Fire.

    Damn. It’s times like this, that I wish I really believed in that heaven and hell crap.

    Can someone at least notify that Fred Phelps guy? (It could be funny as hell, and a little bit of heaven on earth watching him picket the funeral!)

  14. says

    Uh, pineapple? Why pineapple?

    As for Kennedy — another one who is no loss to humanity. Is there any chance that as these greedy old men die off, that the next generation of evangelical leaders might be just a little less insane, or do we have more sanctimonious Ted Haggards waiting in the wings with their Jesus Camp madrassah spawn? Will we ever see a day when prominent fundamentalist leaders put service before moralistic garbage?

  15. says

    He was one of the smoothest of the right-wing Christian evangelists and his baneful influence will live on in electronic form for ages to come. I hope, however, that his carefully crafted sermons will be studied more as examples of plausible propaganda than as advice for life and political action. He really did have a problem distinguishing between truth and falsehood, although he projected overweening certainty. It must have been strange to be him.

  16. Tim Tesar says

    I watched quite a few of Kennedy’s sermons. He was my favorite televangelist. Boy, he often said some really, really dumb things. It was astounding.

  17. IanR says

    While I am saddened for those who cared about him, today there’s just a little less evil on earth.

  18. noncarborundum says

    It’s times like this, that I wish I really believed in that heaven and hell crap.

    Please don’t. There is no imaginable finite evil that could possibly justify an infinity of torture in punishment.

    Some quality time in purgatory, though . . .

  19. nunov yurbiznez says

    Cue theist chiming in with comment about us bloodthirsty atheists dancing on graves in 3…2…1…. Posted by: Brownian

    What? You think you aren’t?

  20. mothra says

    Has anyone here, seen that old fiend James
    Is his Coral Ridge maintained.
    He spurned allot of people,
    The evil they just live again,
    Faldwell, Kennedy, Robertson. . .

  21. Kseniya says

    “Publicly-funded religious schools would be allowed teach creationism and other theories alongside evolution, says Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory.”

    John Tory? You can’t make this stuff up.

    What? You think you aren’t?

    Aren’t what? Bloodthirsty? Or dancing? Anyway, I think it’s irrelevant. The prediction was about the “chiming in”, regardless of its accuracy.

  22. says

    My only regret is that I never had a chance to personally chastise him. Elvis Costello has a song about Margaret Thatcher that, transposed to DJK, makes perfect emotional sense to me.

  23. says

    Back in the ’80s, I used to listen to D. James Kennedy on the radio just for laughs. Coral Ridge Ministries was insane. He railed about gays all the time.

    He was on right after Herr Dobson, who also drove me crazy. This was back when I was a fundy mainly to have a social circle. Once I read the Bible and saw how ridiculously wrong it was, I left the Christianity for good.

    So who’s next to go? Dobson? Robertson? The Dead Godbag Trifecta is nearly in place!

  24. Adrienne says

    You’re right, Bird Man. You can’t have a belief system–or a lack of one–once you’re dead.

  25. Adrienne says

    Well, OK, you can have a lack of a belief system when you’re dead. When you’re dead, you have a lack of a lot of things. But I guess you can’t really have an opinion on the existence/nonexistence of deities when you’re dead, which is what I was getting at.

    And yes, Bird Man, I’m having a markedly better day since knowing that the wicked and loopy Kennedy has kicked the bucket. You?

  26. Steve_C says

    Not any old man’s death.

    A very creepy and insidious old man.

    Hovind in jail is, actually, fun. Kennedy’s is just a relief.

  27. Greg Peterson says

    The ideal would have been if he would have repented of his smarmy, unctious lying and come clean and admitted what a blowhard fraud he was, but failing that, I’ll take his death, with glee. I hated this man. More than Falwell, more than Robertson, almost as much as Dobson. The damage he’s done, the idiocy he’s promolgated. Ding dong and good riddance. I know that egomaniacal charlatans are like dragon seeds and many more will pop up, but it is still a pleasure to see one go into the ground.

  28. wrpd says

    If he is not dead already. Robertson will be next. As for Dobson and Donohue, my bet is on Donohue. I love to watch him get angry and apoplectic and starts spouting even stupider things. His heart isn’t going to last much longer at that rate.

  29. Mena says

    No one has to say anything bad about him, a simple web search about him and seeing what he stood for accomplishes the same thing. Vile human being.

  30. George Atkinson says

    As to post-interment gravesite use: First as dance-floor, later as latrine. [Wouldn’t want the dancers to slip.]

  31. bybelknap, FCD says

    A quick search of some major on-line news sites (MSNBC, CNN, TIME…) shows a lack of stories about his death. Which is kind of good. Maybe he’s not quite so influential? At least on a national scale. Not like Falwell, anyway. Heck, his own website at Coral Ridge doesn’t seem to know he’s dead. HA! Now that’s pretty funny. Slackers.

  32. Adrienne says

    Heck, his own website at Coral Ridge doesn’t seem to know he’s dead. HA! Now that’s pretty funny. Slackers.

    Maybe they’re waiting to see if he’ll rise from the dead in three days. Or even a day and a half, give or take.

  33. Meg says

    I’m enjoying the feeling of being not at all sad to learn this news–and I’m delighted that I learned of it through Pharyngula!

    [Dobson’s] open advocacy of corporeal punishment of very young children has always made him seem especially creepy and/sadistic to me

    Not to mention his using the abuse of his dachshund as an example of the type of “discipline” he intends.

    Hmmm, maybe we can set up a deathmatch between Dobson and Michael Vick?

  34. raindogzilla says

    I went on an Alaskan cruise with D. James Kennedy. Well, not with him like a meth-crazed male escort but on the Coral Ridge sponsored junket with D’James as the main attraction. Keep in mind that my fundie aunt paid for the entire family, I got to bring a date, and I’d always wanted to see Alaska. Still, I spent the trip stoned, hovering as near to Kennedy as I could get because he was really, really funny. I don’t dance but could I, er, see a man about a horse on his grave?

  35. DGS says

    I lived less than a mile from his church for five years. It was a huge, imposing white structure with a steeple visible from space. An amazing number of people would attend, but the church wasn’t flashy “in town” other than via the building itself. The moneymaker was of course the TV thing, and he didn’t get embroiled in local politics or society much, it seemed.

    Glad to see him go.

  36. Pattanowski says

    I’m waiting for his unholy spirit to show up and retrieve the chunk of his church that I have in my flower garden.

  37. MJKelleher says

    A quick search of some major on-line news sites (MSNBC, CNN, TIME…) shows a lack of stories about his death. Which is kind of good. Maybe he’s not quite so influential? At least on a national scale.

    Now, CNN has a story… well, a link to a story at a Miami TV station’s site. On the other hand, they’ve got good coverage of the death of Luciano Pavarotti, with bio, video, photos… I like their priorities.

    MJ