Jerry Falwell Died....

[jojo_collins]

Jerry Falwell, the founder of the Moral Majority and Liberty University, has died.....details are sketchy, but if you know more than I, please post it up. Thanks.

 

[DToTheJ]

Here's a story from AOL reporting he was "hospitalized", since updated:

Falwell Dead at 73

You may also remember him for that whole Teletubbies flap.

 

[dhett]

If Teletubbies and his post-9/11 remarks are all people remember him for, then they don't know jack about Falwell and don't want to know.

Fair-use quotes from the AOL link cited by DToTheJ:

The big, blue-eyed preacher with a booming voice started a fundamentalist church in an abandoned bottling plant in Lynchburg in 1956 with just 35 members. He built it into a religious empire that included the 22,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church, the "Old Time Gospel Hour" carried on TV stations around the country and 7,700-student Liberty University, which Falwell founded in 1971 as Lynchburg Baptist College.
(...)
"He was one of the first to come up with ways to use television to expand his ministry," said Robert Alley, a retired University of Richmond religion professor who studied and criticized Falwell 's career.

Falwell lived a life of consequence. I often disagreed with him, but never doubted his sincerity. He relied on his God and his conscience for guidance, not public opinion polls. He has left a positive legacy that will not be forgotten.

 

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