Jerry Falwell

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Evangelicals, Israel, and the End of the World

David Heilbroner | Posted 12.14.2009 | World

Read More: Fundamentalism, Armageddon, End Times, Israel, Taliban, Waiting for Armageddon, Bible Prophecy, Evangelicals, 2012, Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, The Rapture, Middle East, Pat Robertson, World News

There are some 50 million Evangelicals in the US who believe in the literal truth of Bible prophecy. All are fixated upon Israel. Because for a great many true believers, the end of the world is just the beginning.

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Did Falwell Cross The Line ... Again?

Tom Gerdy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Voting Irregularities, Jerry Falwell, Bribery, Liberty University, Richard J. Daley, Boss Tweed, Politics News

Legal or not, Liberty University has played a big role in making the line between voting incentives and bribery just a little thinner.

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Actor Matthew Marsden Hides Right-Wing Political Views

Jackson Williams | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Black Hawk Down, Jerry Falwell, Council for National Policy, Pat Boone, Ronald Reagan, Bruce Willis, Media, Michelle Bachman, Austin American Statesman, Rambo, Dixie Chicks, Forum on the Family, Nra, Phyllis Schlafly, Matthew Marsden, Susan Sarandon, Gary Sinise, James Dobson, Eagle Forum, Moral Majority, Austin, Barry Levinson, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Discovery Institute, Poliwood, Ed Meese, Creative Coalition, Barbra Streisand, Texas, Edwin Meese, Hollywood, Left Behind Books, Tim LaHay, Barack Obama, Clint Eastwood, Left Behind, George Gilder, Miranda Ruling, Mel Gibson, Entertainment, Chuck Norris, Charlton Heston, New York Times, Tim Pawlenty, Tony Perkins, Politics News

If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.

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Irving Kristol's Alliance With Anti-Semites

Max Blumenthal | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Jerry Falwell, Jews, Conservatives, Evangelical Christians, Irving Kristol, Christian Right, Israel, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

The story of one of Kristol's most momentous maneuvers, the brokering of a tactical alliance between Jewish neoconservatives and openly anti-Semitic evangelicals, has been omitted from his obituaries.

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Glenn Beck and The 9/12 Marchers: Subversives From Within

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religious Right, Jerry Falwell, Glenn Beck, Senator Edward Kennedy, Jeff Sharlet, Sam Tanenhaus, Max Blumenthal, Francis Schaeffer, Politics News

Today the right wing America haters actually are doing to America what no "illegal" immigrants ever do: work to overthrow our democracy and replace it with a theocracy.

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Remembering My Battle Against Fundamentalists

Jim Luce | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Last Temptation of Christ, American Psychological Association, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, U.P.I., Pat Robertson, Christian Fundamentalism, Religious Addiction, Jewish Fundamentalism, The Journal of Religion and Health, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Daiwa Bank, Mainline Churches, There Is a Way Out, God’s Will, Today Show, Marty Scorsese, Religious Right, Los Angeles Times, Fundamentalist, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Moral Majority, Islamic Fundamentalism, Christian Science Monitor, Steve Allen, Phil Donahue Show, Hollywood Under Siege, Madonna, Culture Wars, PTL Club, USA Today, Toronto Star, Henry Luce III, San Francisco Chronicle, London Observer, Daniel Berrigan, Luce Publications, Norman Lear, Hank Luce, Gunther Hirshberg, Henry Luce Foundation, Village Voice, Ari Goldman, Universal Studio, U.S. Congress, A. James Rudin, M. Scott Peck, New York Law Journal, Josh Baran, Salman Rushdie, Newsweek, Frank Zappa, Presbyterian, Bill Geist, Ram Dass, Associated Press, A.C.L.U., Psychology Today, Terry Sweeney, Cnn, Like a Prayer, Wall Street, Satanic Verses, Jimmy Swaggart, American Jewish Committee, Oprah Winfrey Show, New York Observer, People for the American Way., New York Times, Episcopalian, New York News

Our biggest accomplishment was standing up for those torn down by the TV evangelists.

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Liberty University: Student Democrats Can Stay On Campus, Unofficially

AP | ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Liberty University, Virginia, Student Democrats, Democrats, College Democrats, College Republicans, Jan Dervish, Politics News

RICHMOND, Va. — The student Democratic club at conservative Liberty University can continue as a campus group _ unofficially. Chancellor Jerry ...

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Barack Obama and Islam

John L. Esposito | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama-and-Islam, Islamophobia, Jerry Falwell, Cairo, Obama Muslim, Prophet Mohammed, Islamic Radicalism, Obama Mideast Trip, Obama Cairo Speech, Barack Obama, Pat Robertson, Muslim World, Islamo-Fascism, Politics News

Muslims' major grievance against the West is what they identify as the denigration of Islam and Muslims and how they are seen by the West as inferior and not of equal value.

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Falwell's Legacy Haunts Liberty University

Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cult, Jerry Falwell, Pap Attack, Abortion, Gay Marriage, Mike Papantonio, Religious Right, Sun Myung Moon, Air America Media, Pro Life, Ring of Fire, Democrats, Liberty University, Debate, Moonie, Politics News

You have to wonder why a group of teenage Democrats have been told that their kind are not welcome at Liberty, a campus that was built in part from the money of Sun Myung Moon.

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Liberty University Revokes College Democrats Chapter for Being UnChristian

Katie Naranjo | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: College Democrats of America, Jerry Falwell, College Democrats, Katie Naranjo, Free Speech, Liberty University, Regulation, Politics News

After much national outrage at Liberty's actions, they are the ones now demanding that students apologize to them.

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Liberty University Democrats: Why They Were Silenced, And What It Means

Kevin Roose | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: College Students, Jerry Falwell, Youth Vote, Democrats, Young Democrats, Free Speech, Liberty University, Politics News

What Liberty's administration needs isn't just a lesson in tolerance - it's a long, honest look in the mirror.

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Explaining The Nation's Non-Reaction To Gay Marriage

Dan Pashman | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Gay Rights, Evangelical Christians, Christian Broadcasting Network, Christian Right, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Pat Robertson, Politics News

As people start to see that New England hasn't turned into Sodom and Gomorrah, they're becoming more comfortable with the notion of same-sex marriage.

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Surprises from Liberty University: What I Learned as an Undercover Evangelical

Kevin Roose | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fundamentalism, Jerry Falwell, Christian Right, Religious Tolerance, Liberty University, Evangelicals, Politics News

When I stepped on to the campus of Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University for my first day as a new transfer student, I thought I knew what I was getting myself into.

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Kevin Roose Infiltrates Liberty University To Write Book

AP | ERIC TUCKER | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University, Jerry Falwell, Kevin Roose, Kevin Roose Book, Kevin Roose and Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Liberty University, Liberty University, Politics News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Kevin Roose managed to blend in during his single semester at Liberty University, attending lectures on the myth of evolution...

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Washington Post Validates Played-Out Sophistry

Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

The Washington Post chose to run a suspiciously laudatory front-page story today on creationist field trips to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

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One Nation Under Democracy

Michael DeJong | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Scientology, First Amendment, Rovian, Hell, Pat Robertson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Obama, Rastafarianism, Fundamentalists, Republican Party, Agnosticism, Christians, In God We Trust, Separation of Church and State, Islam, Atheism, World, Beltway Insider, Bahá'í, Presidential Prayer Breakfast, Country, Religion, Confucianism, Jimmy Swaggart, Strange Bedfellows, Jainism, Environment, Hinduism, Buddhism, Neopaganism, Sikhism, Sufism, Wiccanism, Shinto, Politics News

One might have thought that Obama would slant more towards the Constitutional First Amendment of Separation of Church and State, and forgo the tradition of "Prayer Breakfasts."

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Celebrating Valentine's Day at Jerry Falwell's College

Kevin Roose | Posted 03.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Valentine's Day, Jerry Falwell, Christian Right, Abstinence Only, National Day of Purity, Liberty University, Living News

Instead of celebrating Valentine's Day, my classmates at Liberty University celebrate the National Day of Purity, a conservative Christian holiday designed to promote abstinence before marriage.

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Obama's Rick Warren Pick Makes Perfectly Good Sense

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moral Values, Religion, Saddleback Church, Jerry Falwell, Barack Obama, Political Issues, Inauguration, Faith, Presidency, Liberal Democrats, Rick Warren, Evangelicals, Politics News

The 60 to 80 million Christian evangelicals are still too big, too important, and too politically strategic to ignore. Obama knows that and that's a big reason why Warren will pray at his inauguration.

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Did God Do It? Blaming The Crisis On The Divine

Danny Schechter | Posted 01.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Barack Obama. Hank Paulson, Jerry Falwell, Joe Stiglitz, Depression, Economy, Donald Trump, Economic Crisis, Banker Bailout, Recessionaires, Recession, Economic Czar, Bailout, Donald Trump Blames God, Congressional Bailout, Deregulation, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Business News

Donal Trump Blames Crisis on Divine Intervention: As the Job Losses Mount, the Government's Bailout Flouders/Fails It has taken a while for the stars...

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May 13, 2006 -- The Day that John McCain Lost the Election

Hilary Rosen | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: McCain Maverick, Jerry Falwell, John McCain, Evangelical Voters, Liberty University, Politics News

It was the day McCain spoke at Liberty University. In my view, that day began the destruction of one of the best brands in American politics.

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Halloween "Hell Houses" Act Out Depraved Christian Wet Dreams

Theresa Darklady Reed | Posted 12.01.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Parachurch, Anti-Semetic, Halloween, Jerry Falwell, Scaremare, Keenan Roberts, Anti-Gay, Evangelists, Christianity, Spiritual Satire, Anti-Abortion, religioustolerance.org, Hell House, Landover Baptist, Satanism, Entertainment News

Never one to let others appear more self-righteous than themselves, the fictional followers of Landover Baptist church have developed their own satirical, if non-existent, Hell House.

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Palin's All Dressed Up and Plotting

Wayne Besen | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jerry Falwell, John McCain, Rick Warren, Gay, Prop. 8, Wayne Besen, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Lgbt, Politics News

Like vultures circling the walking dead, social conservatives, these rapacious and repugnant culture warriors, are already poised to foist blame on McCain -- if he loses -- for not being conservative enough.

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Culture of Lies

Scott Swenson | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Will any brave and clear-sighted Republicans realize that rather than throwing McCain a lifeline in this election, far-right extremism has further isolated McCain, and the party, from mainstream Americans?

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Jerry Falwell Jr. Trying To Get His Students To Vote

Washington Post | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Falwell Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Son, Falwell Jr, Jerry Falwell School, Jerry Falwell Jr, Falwell Voter Drive, Liberty University, Politics News

Jerry Falwell Jr., chancellor of socially conservative Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., is launching an ambitious drive to get the school's 10,5...

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