So Jerry Falwell walks up to Saint Peter and says...
It is all over the MSM and the Blogosphere: Jerry Falwell is dead. Most people are treating it as an opportunity to dance on the grave of someone who would gladly have danced on theirs. (No reason to bother with links here; I'm sure you've already seen the posts.)

Me? I'm certainly happy that Falwell's big mouth is finally shut for good. But I do find all the glee at his demise a bit, well, declassé. I mean, so far as I know he never personally committed or ordered anyone's death or torture; the only kinds of acts I believe would justify such unchivalrous outbursts.

(In my mind, any deaths or tortures committed by people who heard his words and then used them to justify their crimes are on their own heads. Falwell's culpability is diminished there, although you could accuse him of aiding and abetting.)

So it is that I particularity like atheist blog Unscrewing The Inscrutable's take on Falwell's passing. Now that is the right way to show they are better people than Falwell could ever have been...