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TheBlackAdder

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Wed Nov 22, 2023, 12:56 PM Nov 2023

Jerry Falwell Jr. lobs attacks that will 'will rock' Liberty U 'to its core': reporter [View all]

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Source: Axios

Axios reports that journalist Tim Alberta is coming out with a new book in which Falwell Jr. candidly admits that his late father, Jerry Falwell, Sr., founded the university solely to be an institutional arm of the Republican Party and not to be a Christian university aimed at spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In fact, Falwell Jr. is slamming his brother, current Liberty Chancellor Jonathan Falwell, for trying to actually run it like a legitimate Christian educational institution rather than a front for training hardcore culture warriors.

As if that weren't enough, Falwell Jr. said his brother was blowing it by surrounding himself with too many honest people.


Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/jerry-falwell-jr-2666333522/



Here is the direct Axios link, which is a little harder to paste a summary excerpt.

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/22/american-evangelicals-republican-candidates-liberty-university
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