Christian leader Jerry Falwell urges Trump support: 'He's a moral person' NOT the Onion!!

[niyad]

Christian leader Jerry Falwell urges Trump support: 'He's a moral person' NOT the Onion!!

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Christian leader Jerry Falwell urges Trump support: 'He’s a moral person'

The evangelical Liberty University president, who helped give Trump the Christian vote in 2016, aims to influence voters again


Donald Trump is a “good moral person” and an example to the nation, according to one of the most prominent evangelical Christians in the US.

Jerry Falwell, who is credited along with other evangelical leaders with delivering a huge Christian vote for Trump in 2016, said he had “no doubts, no hesitations” about supporting the president. “He is like Ronald Reagan on steroids.”

In an interview with the Guardian, Falwell also described the Democrats as fascists and “Brownshirts”, and said the US would be engaged in civil war if this was the 18th century rather than the 21st century.

Falwell is the president of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, a Christian establishment with more than 100,000 students on campus and enrolled in online courses. His close association with and vocal support for Trump has embedded Liberty’s reputation and influence as one of the most conservative educational institutions in the country. Falwell has invited Trump to speak at Liberty three times in the past six years, and was the first evangelical leader to endorse his presidential candidacy.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/09/christian-leader-jerry-falwell-urges-trump-support-hes-a-moral-person

[Blue Owl]

1. I'd like to sit down with Jerry and watch some old Howard Stern re-runs

Because clearly this lunatic has lost whatever is left of his mind...

[czarjak]

2. Way to keep the faith, Jerry....

What about Romans 3:23?

[niyad]

3. he only uses the parts of that archaic document that suit him.

[Act_of_Reparation]

6. Just like everyone else who tosses scripture around to make a point.

It's an awful book, really.

[niyad]

7. contradictory, and many parts "borrowed" (stolen") from other belief systems, aimed at

a not-literate agrarian people.

One of my favourite comments "Isn't it funny how white europeans worship a book that has no white europeans in it" (forget who said it. Z Budapest, maybe.

[guillaumeb]

4. I agree with Falwell.

Reagan was a senile, racist idiot. And Trump IS that on steroids.

[niyad]

5. exactly!!!