| rdfs:comment | - Jerry Falwell was a man who lived by the Good Book. He was a dedicated Compassionate Conservative Christian with a mission to protect America from those who sought to destroy it. According to the official stance of Jerry Falwell, the enemies of America include Gays, Muslims, Jews, Liberals, Activist Judges, The ACLU, The Clenis, The United Nations, Old Europe, your next door neighbors, your sister, your parents, your brother, your grandparents ... Come to think of it, it is probably easier to list those whom Falwell did not consider enemies of America: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Pat Robertson, the Moral Majority, anyone who donates to Jerry Falwell Ministries, and Jerry Falwell. All others are enemies of the state.
- In "Road to Rupert", after the rapture and everyone else is gone, he and Pat Robertson are the only ones left. They start to pick things to hate and instead fall in love with each other.
- Jerry Lamon Falwell Sr. (born 1933, died 2007), was a far right Christian minister who started the Moral Majority and was a harsh critic of social liberalism and secular society. His extreme views including support for apartheid in South Africa and racist segregation in the US. Somewhat later in his life, he became a bit more of a moderate. He even went so far as to say, regarding homosexuals, "We can be friends with those we don't agree with". He also called Fred Phelps, an even more extreme Christian, a first class nut. It may be possible that Falwell did genuinely evolve throughout his life but it is more likely he was attempting to sound more moderate to appease the slightly more liberal population of the United States. Rev. Falwell founded Liberty University in Lynchmob Lynchburg, Vir
- Jerry Falwell was a Baptist minister. He started adult life supporting racist segregation and preached that a separate, presumably inferior position for black people was God’s plan. He supported racial segregation in the USA and apartheid in Africa. This demonstrates how religion in general and Christianity in particular can be used to support a range of views depending on personal preference, see Christian morality for more.
- Falwell led services at Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia from 1956-2007. His Christ-centered leadership lead to the expansion of the church, with it eventually reaching gigachurch status, helped in no small part by the addition of a Putt-Putt for Jesus mini-golf course in 1961, a Christian-themed Holy Roller roller disco in 1977, and a Christian bookstore in 1984. He changed affiliations from the staunchly conservative Baptist Bible Fellowship International to the incredibly conservative Southern Baptist Convention after the BBFI failed to adequately condemn homosexuality, homosexuals, and the dirty things that the latter do to each other in public washrooms, nightclubs and Vermont, and ended his self-identification with fundamentalism in favor of evangelical
- Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. (August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007) was an American evangelical Christian pastor and televangelist. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Liberty University in 1971 and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979.
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| abstract | - Jerry Falwell was a Baptist minister. He started adult life supporting racist segregation and preached that a separate, presumably inferior position for black people was God’s plan. He supported racial segregation in the USA and apartheid in Africa. This demonstrates how religion in general and Christianity in particular can be used to support a range of views depending on personal preference, see Christian morality for more. Later Falwell assumed that most people accepted his highly restrictive sexual code and founded the self-styled, “Moral majority”. This imagined majority had so little support that it was later disbanded. Jerry Falwell died in 2007 but his legacy lives in in the ironically named and restrictive Liberty University. Naturally there is any number of other extreme fundamentalist Christians ready to take Falwell’s place.
- Jerry Lamon Falwell Sr. (born 1933, died 2007), was a far right Christian minister who started the Moral Majority and was a harsh critic of social liberalism and secular society. His extreme views including support for apartheid in South Africa and racist segregation in the US. Somewhat later in his life, he became a bit more of a moderate. He even went so far as to say, regarding homosexuals, "We can be friends with those we don't agree with". He also called Fred Phelps, an even more extreme Christian, a first class nut. It may be possible that Falwell did genuinely evolve throughout his life but it is more likely he was attempting to sound more moderate to appease the slightly more liberal population of the United States. Rev. Falwell founded Liberty University in Lynchmob Lynchburg, Virginia, that's not a joke, the town really is called Lynchburg. Liberty University is an institution that teaches Creation Pseudoscience. Is that a proper University? Falwell also founded Liberty Counsel. Falwell told Pat Robertson that the American Civil Liberties Union, Gays, Pagans & other unholy people were to blame for the 9/11 attacks. Even though Falwell celebrates Pagen Holidays himself. In 1998, Falwell criticized the British children's show, Teletubbies, for "promoting" homosexuality in toddlers. Jerry Falwell died on May 15, 2007.
- Falwell led services at Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia from 1956-2007. His Christ-centered leadership lead to the expansion of the church, with it eventually reaching gigachurch status, helped in no small part by the addition of a Putt-Putt for Jesus mini-golf course in 1961, a Christian-themed Holy Roller roller disco in 1977, and a Christian bookstore in 1984. He changed affiliations from the staunchly conservative Baptist Bible Fellowship International to the incredibly conservative Southern Baptist Convention after the BBFI failed to adequately condemn homosexuality, homosexuals, and the dirty things that the latter do to each other in public washrooms, nightclubs and Vermont, and ended his self-identification with fundamentalism in favor of evangelicalism, which has more things that are tax-exempt and the groupies have bigger hair. Falwell's shift from fundamentalism to evangelicalism is said to have occurred in a roadside conversion, after he had his driver pull his limousine over to the side of the road so that he could berate a homeless man for being lazy. "When I was done verbally castrating the man," Falwell recounts in his book You've got a mote in your eye, America, "Fundamentally, I returned to the car, and over the roar of the A/C heard Paul of Tarsis tell me to take my fundamental fundamentalism on the road...and what better way to fundamentally spread the Good News that people who aren't exactly like me are all going to Hell than evangelicalism?" __TOC__
- Jerry Falwell was a man who lived by the Good Book. He was a dedicated Compassionate Conservative Christian with a mission to protect America from those who sought to destroy it. According to the official stance of Jerry Falwell, the enemies of America include Gays, Muslims, Jews, Liberals, Activist Judges, The ACLU, The Clenis, The United Nations, Old Europe, your next door neighbors, your sister, your parents, your brother, your grandparents ... Come to think of it, it is probably easier to list those whom Falwell did not consider enemies of America: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Pat Robertson, the Moral Majority, anyone who donates to Jerry Falwell Ministries, and Jerry Falwell. All others are enemies of the state.
- Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. (August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007) was an American evangelical Christian pastor and televangelist. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Liberty University in 1971 and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979. Falwell led services at Thomas Road for many years. During his tenure, it changed affiliations from Baptist Bible Fellowship International to the mainly conservative Southern Baptist Convention, and Falwell himself ended his self-identification with fundamentalism in favor of evangelicalism. Falwell's legacy today is mixed; while supporters praise his advancement of his conservative message, many statements and positions remain controversial. This never bothered him during his lifetime, however, and he often stated, "I'm not called to be popular; I'm called to be faithful."
- In "Road to Rupert", after the rapture and everyone else is gone, he and Pat Robertson are the only ones left. They start to pick things to hate and instead fall in love with each other.
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