Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University. I exposed his father as a bloodthirsty warmonger way back in 2004. Speaking of the shooting in California, Junior should have chosen his words more carefully: “I’ve always thought that if more good people had concealed-carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in,” he says, the rest of his sentence drowned out by loud applause while he said, “and killed them.” He later tried to clarify his remarks: “Falwell said that when he referred to ‘those Muslims,’ he was referring to Islamic terrorists, specifically those behind the attacks in Paris and in San Bernardino. ‘That’s the only thing I would clarify,’ Falwell said. ‘If I had to say what I said again, I’d say exactly the same thing.'”
But then he “retweeted several tweets praising his remarks, including one that said ‘SUCK IT, Muslim extremists,’ with a link to the weapons course Liberty offers.” Not the usual thing a reverend would be retweeting. I applaud Falwell for his support of gun rights, but not for making stupid statements like this: “Jesus said ‘Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s,’ and part of that was to go to war, protecting whatever nation was under control of the king.” Reminds me of when his father said that God was pro-war. Like father, like son.
Liberty University has sold out. I note this line near the end of the article: “Most of the university’s dramatic growth has come through distance education and also from an expansion in federal aid. Two decades ago, Liberty students received less than $20 million in federal aid, but its students now receive more than $800 million a year in such aid.”
8:56 am on December 6, 2015
