Liberty University student stopped from blowing up Falwell protestors with bombs.

Even in death, the Rev. Jerry Falwell rouses the most volatile of emotions.

A small group of protesters gathered near the funeral services to criticize the man who mobilized Christian evangelicals and made them a major force in American politics -- often by playing on social prejudices.

And Campbell County authorities arrested a Liberty University student for having several homemade bombs in his car.

The student, 19-year-old Mark D. Uhl of Amissville, Va., reportedly told authorities that he was making the bombs to stop protesters from disrupting the funeral service. The devices were made of a combination of gasoline and detergent, a law enforcement official told ABC News' Pierre Thomas. They were "slow burn," according to the official, and would not have been very destructive.

So perhaps we can get an idea of the type of education students receive at Liberty University by scrutinizing this one student.

• He certainly did not learn any debating skills because he tried to problem solve using violence.
• He obviously did not learn morality because he thinks it is okay to kill those that he does not agree with.
• He did not study psychology or else he might have realized that what he was doing was nuts.
• And finally he did not learn much about chemistry because his mixture would not have been effective.

Unfortunately for our country, and education in general, this herpes sore of a university will continue to churn out small minded, hate filled, Christian Nazis for at least a dozen years to come. That is definitely a bad thing.

Tinky Winky would like to weigh in on the passing of his nemesis Jerry Falwell.

"I'm not going to pretend I'm sadder than I am," he says. "There were late nights during the dark times when I wished to hear news like this. I'd be lying if I denied that. I don't feel that way anymore. I like to think I've grown over the years, gotten past all that pain.

"But at the end of the day, I'm not terribly sad, and I think a lot of people feel the same way. Jerry Falwell was a divisive person, a hateful person, and what I've tried to be all about, in the Teletubbies days and since then, has been love. I've got to keep it that way. I don't want anybody feeling good about it when it's my time for Tubby bye-bye."

I know I should not be laughing at this, but it is just too damn funny.

Jerry Falwell is dead!

The Rev. Jerry Falwell was stricken at his campus office and died Tuesday after a career in which the evangelist used the power of television to transform the religious right into a mighty force in American politics. He was 73.

The founder of the Moral Majority was discovered without a pulse at Liberty University and pronounced dead at a hospital an hour later. Dr. Carl Moore, Falwell's physician, said he had a heart condition and presumably died of a heart rhythm abnormality.

Driven into politics by the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that established the right to an abortion, Falwell founded the Moral Majority in 1979. One of the conservative lobbying group's greatest triumphs came just a year later, when Ronald Reagan was elected president.
Falwell credited the Moral Majority with getting millions of conservative voters registered, aiding in Reagan's victory and giving Republicans control of the Senate.

"I shudder to think where the country would be right now if the religious right had not evolved," he said when he stepped down as Moral Majority president in 1987.

I disliked Jerry Falwell immensely. I blame him for much of the backward thinking that has become prevalent in this country lately and I think that he had way too much power when it came to which politicians got elected in this country.

But having said that I do not make it a habit of celebrating the death of anybody. So I feel for Dr. Falwell and his family and hope that they find comfort in their religion.

But somehow I cannot help but think that Tinky Winky is somewhere clutching his purse and smiling.