Posted on 06/22/2008 10:11:46 PM PDT by jmc813
OS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71. ADVERTISEMENT Carlin, who had a history of heart problems, died at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT) after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, spokesman Jeff Abraham told Reuters. Known for his edgy, provocative material, Carlin achieved status as an anti-Establishment icon in the 1970s with stand-up bits full of drug references and a routine about seven dirty words you could not say on television. A regulatory battle over a radio broadcast of his "Filthy Words" routine ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
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I absolutely agree with you.
My point is simply that I can't judge him and you can't judge him...Only our all-loving and all-forgiving God can judge him.
May he rest in peace.
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Ha ha ha!!!
Sure I can! I can judge him in life. What I can't do, is judge him in death. I'll leave that up to a higher authority.
I’m not saying for certain that he is damned, but we shouldn’t be posting all this hagiography saying he was a great guy. The man was a jerk.
-PJ
With all due respect...who are you to judge anyone? In life or in death? Shall you cast the first stone??
You’ve got to be joking! LOL
He may have known “of” Christ, but he never “knew” Him if he could reject Him so completely.
With all due respect to you - you are friends with everyone you meet in life? The thieves, the adulterers, the abusers, not to mention the just plain not nice people? We all make judgments about people every day. Don’t pretend otherwise. I taught my daughters that you’re judged by the company you keep therefore choose your friends wisely. We do not know where George Carlin’s soul is tonite. We can only speculate by the life he lived and what he outright told us. Like I posted prior, he could have made his peace with God at the very moment of death. Who knows?
No, I’m not.
Are you without sin? I know I’m not. So what gives us the right to judge anyone??
We humans judge our fellow humans all the time.
What I don’t do, is run around pushing anti-Christian liberalism, or defending people who do. Carlin was famous for his attacks on everything that was decent in America.
Believe me, brother, I am NOT an anti-Christian liberal...far from it. I just believe it’s up to God to judge the man...that’s all.
It sounds like George Carlin himself made the state of his soul pretty clear in his own words for the whole world (or at least his audience) to know. He judged himself in a very public way.
And tonite He has.
By his own words, Carlin didn’t lead a spiritual life. His morals were in the toilet. His humanity was in question.
In death, its God who will judge his soul. Not me.
That's all I'm saying...So shouldn't we pray that he finds his way into the arms of our all-loving and all-forgiving God?
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