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
You've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops. And I'm for the president to chase them all over the world. If it takes 10 years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord.
I have spent the last 30 years forming the religious right. I write a letter every week and send a newspaper every month to 200,000 pastors who are broadly called evangelicals, bringing them up to date on what is happening in Washington, in the state capitals, in the culture, and what we need to do about it. And of course I'm criticized for it, and of course I have calculated the positives and the negatives, but I have long been at peace with what I do.
One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We are just quitters.
(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.
The First Amendment is not without limits.
God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.
The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability