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An Open Letter to Liberty University to ‘Engage in Peaceful Debate’ – Red Letter Christians
It begins:
Dear Jerry Falwell, Jr.,
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http://www.npr.org/2017/10/31/56110...y-university-campus-after-criticizing-trump-a
An evangelical Christian writer and pastor says he's been banned from the Liberty University campus for criticizing President Jerry Falwell, Jr., a longtime ally of President Donald Trump.
The writer, Jonathan Martin, said in a Twitter thread that he was on the campus of Liberty, a private Christian college in Lynchburg, Va., Monday night for a concert by the duo Johnnyswim when he was escorted away by armed campus police.
Martin, who describes himself as an evangelical, said he believes Falwell is "uniquely complicit" in aligning evangelical Christianity with ideologies like white nationalism through his support for Trump and Bannon. He said he was particularly distressed by Trump's equivocal response to the recent violence in Charlottesville, Va., during a neo-Nazi rally.
"It often feels to me like a whole new religion," he said. "... It seems like with Falwell there's no boundaries."
Falwell was one of the first prominent evangelical leaders to support Trump's candidacy during the 2016 Republican primary. He's urged evangelicals to look beyond Trump's history of multiple marriages and vulgar language – including a 2005 recording where he brags about touching women's genitals without consent. In an interview with NPR in May, Falwell said no leader is without flaws.
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Must be pretty awful for followers of Jesus to have their religion taken over and turned into a political tool for wealthy white supremacists.
In a way, it's probably how many Muslims feel when Isis perverts Islam.
Extreme right wing Muslims kill people.
Extreme right wing Christians only want to. How do we know? They tell us. You can watch their sermons on Youtube. Sermons of hate and death and torture.
Here are just a few:
Pastor Roger Jimenez
Pastor Steven Anderson
Pastor Kevin Swanson
Pastor Jesse Price
Pastor Charles L. Worley
Pastor Bert Farias
Pastor Jeffrey S. Smith
Pastor Curtis Napp
Pastor James David Manning
Pastor Jim Beech
It begins:
Dear Jerry Falwell, Jr.,
...................
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/31/56110...y-university-campus-after-criticizing-trump-a
An evangelical Christian writer and pastor says he's been banned from the Liberty University campus for criticizing President Jerry Falwell, Jr., a longtime ally of President Donald Trump.
The writer, Jonathan Martin, said in a Twitter thread that he was on the campus of Liberty, a private Christian college in Lynchburg, Va., Monday night for a concert by the duo Johnnyswim when he was escorted away by armed campus police.
Martin, who describes himself as an evangelical, said he believes Falwell is "uniquely complicit" in aligning evangelical Christianity with ideologies like white nationalism through his support for Trump and Bannon. He said he was particularly distressed by Trump's equivocal response to the recent violence in Charlottesville, Va., during a neo-Nazi rally.
"It often feels to me like a whole new religion," he said. "... It seems like with Falwell there's no boundaries."
Falwell was one of the first prominent evangelical leaders to support Trump's candidacy during the 2016 Republican primary. He's urged evangelicals to look beyond Trump's history of multiple marriages and vulgar language – including a 2005 recording where he brags about touching women's genitals without consent. In an interview with NPR in May, Falwell said no leader is without flaws.
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Must be pretty awful for followers of Jesus to have their religion taken over and turned into a political tool for wealthy white supremacists.
In a way, it's probably how many Muslims feel when Isis perverts Islam.
Extreme right wing Muslims kill people.
Extreme right wing Christians only want to. How do we know? They tell us. You can watch their sermons on Youtube. Sermons of hate and death and torture.
Here are just a few:
Pastor Roger Jimenez
Pastor Steven Anderson
Pastor Kevin Swanson
Pastor Jesse Price
Pastor Charles L. Worley
Pastor Bert Farias
Pastor Jeffrey S. Smith
Pastor Curtis Napp
Pastor James David Manning
Pastor Jim Beech