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How Jerry Falwell Jr. Lost His Job at Liberty - The Atlantic
Lesson to be learned: It is very important not to hitch your wagon to a piece of crap. And, Jerry is the ultimate in crap. And, now his stink is rubbing off on the "movement." So, the movement has been busy doing all it can to wash the stench of Jerry Falwell off of it...to no avail.
IMO, Jerry exposed the hypocrisy of Evangelicals for Trump. And, real evangelicals are concerned about the damage that has done to their faith. I'd say it has done much damage, perhaps even irreparable damage.
As president and chancellor of the country’s largest Christian university and the son of one of the founding fathers of the religious right, Jerry Falwell Jr. has come to serve as a stand-in for American evangelicals.
Lesson to be learned: It is very important not to hitch your wagon to a piece of crap. And, Jerry is the ultimate in crap. And, now his stink is rubbing off on the "movement." So, the movement has been busy doing all it can to wash the stench of Jerry Falwell off of it...to no avail.
A contingent of students condemned his support for Trump ahead of the 2016 election. A group of Black student athletes recently left the school over what they described as its racist environment, and Black pastors and young alumni wrote a letter decrying the face-mask incident. But with the yacht photo, Falwell lost the confidence of even the older generation of Liberty leaders. “Years ago, I promised the founder, Jerry Falwell Sr., that I would serve on the board as long as I was asked to continue to do so, and to help try to be part of the spiritual barometer that he always wanted,” Reighard told me. Falwell Jr.’s actions showed “some lapse in judgment.”
IMO, Jerry exposed the hypocrisy of Evangelicals for Trump. And, real evangelicals are concerned about the damage that has done to their faith. I'd say it has done much damage, perhaps even irreparable damage.