1. The recent Jerry Falwell scandal got me thinking about how different Falwell's handling of this has been from the old clerical sleazeballs of yore like Jimmy Swaggart & Jim Baker. Does anyone remember the "I have sinned" speech?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1OXAi7rNMg …
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4. Falwell, who was one of the first big evangelical leaders to endorse Trump, is part of the general decadence of late imperial America, when the ruling elite no longer bothers to wear the mask of chivalry & decorum but rather wants everyone to know what pigs they are.
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5. Part of the Falwell Jr. story is that white evangelicals quickly glommed on to Trumpism because they already shared the same backlash values as Trump, a point made well in
@sarahposner new book Unholy. More thoughts here:https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jerry-falwell-jr-zipper/ …Show this thread
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Trumpism infects evangelicalism
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He is not actually a clergyman. He is President of Liberty U, but unlike his father not a clergyman
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He is a lawyer. Even his Liberty U bio doesn’t claim he is clergy.
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The thing is—and I think it's a really important distinction—is that Falwell Jr. is not an ordained clergyman. He's a businessman and an administrator, period.
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He's the president of a leading evangelical university and thus a major religious figure.
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If people who pay his salary continue to support a leader who openly brags of sexual assault, there's not much incentive for Falwell to live, or pretend to, as a role model to young Christians, is there?
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Wait, what?
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