Jerry Falwell
Jerry Falwell
Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. was an American evangelical Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative political commentator. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academyin 1967 and Liberty University in 1971 and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth11 August 1933
CityLynchburg, VA
CountryUnited States of America
I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.
I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.
I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.
Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.
During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.
(re: 9/11 attacks) "...throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools, the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad...I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America...I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen.
I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
I think pornography is a scourge on society.
I think he is genuinely a state's righter -- and so am I.
What we've worked on for 30 years, to mobilize people of faith and value in this country, what we've done through these years is coming to culmination right now.
Now we're looking at what we really started on 30 years ago, reconstruction of a court system gone awry.
We visit prisoners on death row, and some of them are saved, but we believe their sentences should be carried out because they have a debt to society
I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God.