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Jerry Falwell was the evangelical minister who founded the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia (1956) and gained national prominence through television and radio on the Old Time Gospel Hour. In the late 1970s he became active in politics, founding and leading the Moral Majority, a lobbying group made up of conservative Christians. Falwell ... founded Liberty University (originally called Lynchburg Baptist College) and headed a variety of educational organizations that include a theological seminary and a correspondence school. Outspoken and charismatic, his sometimes controversial opinions often made national headlines. In 2001 he was vilified in the press for blaming terrorist attacks in the United States on pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, lesbians, the American Civil Liberties Union and People For The American Way, saying "I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'" He later amended his statements, saying that secularization had "created an environment which possibly has caused God to lift the veil of protection which has allowed no one to attack America on our soil since 1812." Falwell died in 2007 after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University.
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Jerry Falwell is the TV evangelist who set up an organization called "The Moral Majority." One purpose of this organization was to induce Congress to enact laws that would impose the "moral" standards of Jerry Falwell on the entire U.S. population. This group exerted a lot of pressure on Congress before it was disbanded in 1989.
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Jerry Falwell has a lot to say. Falwell is the fundamentalist who opened the Republican National Convention in 2000 (the GOP kept him under lock-and-key this time around). He asserts that the AIDS crisis is "God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."
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Jerry Falwell created the "Moral Majority" in the seventies. He was doing quite well for himself until some of his fellow televangelists, such as Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggart, got themselves in deep do-do. Contributions dried up and public opinion of Herr Falwell himself started to nosedive. Jerry sent his Moral Majority to the scrap heap in 1986. However, Herr Jerry was still buried under a pile of debt and by 1993, Jerry's Liberty University was in hock to the tune of $73 million. The $73 million was owed to the bondholders who he suckered into financing the construction of Liberty University.
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In 1956, Jerry Falwell, the son of a former bootlegger, became the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church of Lynchburg, having just graduated college and conceived a desire to convert his home town to Christianity. The church’s first collection totalled $135. But it was his folksy and appealing personal style as a television evangelist that helped Falwell make his real start. In the same year he founded the Old-Time Gospel Hour, a daily local radio ministry and a weekly local television ministry that by the 1980’s had been heard in millions of US homes.
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Jerry Falwell was born on August 11, 1933, in Lynchburg, Virginia. He attended public schools, excelled at sports, and earned a 98.6 percent average in high school before entering Lynchburg College in 1950. Midway through his sophomore year, on January 20, 1952, he underwent a religious conversion. Declining an offer to play baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals, Falwell transferred to the Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri. On April 12, 1958, he married Macel Pate, a church pianist.
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