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Jerry Falwell - A divisive figure?

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Its rare for me to ask a question on this site, even though I'm a part owner. I generally answer a few, and keep my head down in the bowels of the servers that power it.

However, I was reading about the death of Jerry Falwell, in an excellent even-handed piece in the New York Times today: http://tinyurl.com/38uoz9

He was a really divisive figure. On the one hand, he was for the south african system of Aparthied, was against civil rights. On the other hand, he was against Abortion and homosexuality.

Can we really consider him a Christian? Aren't christians supposed to be tolerant and forgiving? Also, can we forgive him for railing against the civil rights movement, or for travelling to south africa to explicitly support then president Botha literally at his side? Reasonable people can differ on the issues of abortion.

Hasn't his entire career been really devoted to spreading the gospel of hate rather than love?