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The religious right's hypocrisy now on full display

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Ball State Deac said:
Politico with a roast of Jerry Falwell Jr. and Liberty. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/09/jerry-falwell-liberty-university-loans-227914
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Some gems from the article: "More than two dozen current and former high-ranking Liberty University officials and close associates of Falwell spoke to me or provided documents for this article, opening up...about how Falwell and his wife, Becki, consolidated power at Liberty University and how Falwell presides over a culture of self-dealing, directing university resources into projects and real estate deals in which his friends and family have stood to make personal financial gains."

"We're not a school, we're a real estate hedge fund" said a senior university official with inside knowledge of the university's finances. "We're not educating, we're buying real estate every year and taking student's money to do it." Liberty employees detailed other aspects of Falwell's behavior that they see as falling short of the conduct they expect from conservative Christian leaders, from partying at nightclubs, to graphically discussing his sex life with employees, to electioneering that makes uneasy even those who fondly remember the heyday of the late Jerry Falwell, Sr., and his Moral Majority."

There's much, much more in this article. It's very hard at this point not to see Liberty as a giant financial scam that benefits the Falwells personally, and holds students and faculty to one standard of moral behavior, while the Falwells practice the opposite with impunity. It's moral hypocrisy personified, and Little Falwell and his wife clearly come across as incredibly corrupt, petty, and vindictive - a man and woman drunk with their own power and privately violating all of the "traditional family values" and norms they claim they and their university represent. I have little doubt that their private lives are as twisted as they come.

Having said that, nothing in this article surprised me in the least. The truly sad part is reading all of the comments from Liberty officials and employees who act as if they are shocked or disappointed in Jerry, Jrs. decadence, corruption, and arrogance. Jerry Falwell, Sr. was no better, in spite of the claims otherwise, and it's obvious that many of these people have been deluded from the beginning. I hate to tell them this, but "falling short of the conduct they expect from conservative Christian leaders" has been going on for decades, from charlatan televangelists to prosperity gospel hacks to right-wing preachers playing politics while publicly spouting traditional values and practicing the opposite in private. The Falwells have done all of this from the beginning, and Liberty has been little more than a personal family business and enterprise from the beginning. Only the rubes are surprised by this, anyone outside that bubble shouldn't be surprised at all. This article details what the Religious Right has become. And, sadly, nothing will probably come of it.
 
The rubes won’t read it and those who do don’t care. At this point, they’re in on it. They don’t care about the self-dealing and corruption as long as they own the libs. No way does the average Liberty student care that they’re not allowed to dance but the president of the university was partying it up at a Miami nightclub. They signed on for this.
 
PhDeac said:
The rubes won’t read it and those who do don’t care. At this point, they’re in on it. They don’t care about the self-dealing and corruption as long as they own the libs. No way does the average Liberty student care that they’re not allowed to dance but the president of the university was partying it up at a Miami nightclub. They signed on for this.
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True, but articles like this are still very worthwhile, as it just provides the evidence needed to show everyone outside the bubble what the Falwells are really about. They're Pharisees of the highest order. No one who went to Liberty, or who still believes in the Falwells or the university's "mission", will read or believe any of it, but that's not who articles like this are written for. Better to have the evidence out there than to keep it hidden, which is exactly what the Falwells, Grahams, etc. want.
 
[h=1]New Photos Emerge of Falwell at Miami Nightclub[/h] Owner of Miami nightlife website finds additional images rebutting Jerry Falwell Jr.’s claims of photoshopping.


https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/10/jerry-falwell-nightclub-photos-miami-228054

For the past 21 years, Browarnik has photographed Miami nightlife. Because of his trusted reputation as a photographer, he thought it was important to quickly quash Falwell’s accusation.
“That’s why I have an archive of five million photos,” Browarnik told me. “That’s why we catalog everything.”
While reviewing images from the night in question, Browarnik discovered several previously unpublished photos from that evening in which Jerry Falwell Jr. and other members of the Falwell family can be seen—including Jerry’s wife, Becki, sons Trey and Wesley, and Trey’s wife, Sarah. In the images, the Falwells can be seen in the middle of the club’s dance floor while lasers and other light effects reflect around them. In at least two photos, Falwell family members can be seen holding alcohol. (Liberty University is notoriously strict about alcohol consumption, and students can receive demerits for co-ed dancing and be expelled for drinking.)
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Browarnik told me that while the photographer who took the images of the Falwell family no longer works for his company, they took meticulous notes on the photo subjects, as all of his photographers do. Among those notes: the name Trey Falwell, which accompanied a photo of Sarah and Trey Falwell on World Red Eye’s original post of the images in 2014.
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How self-important and arrogant do you have to be to think someone would photoshop you into Miami nightclub pictures
 
AsesinoDeTortugas said:
How self-important and arrogant do you have to be to think someone would photoshop you into Miami nightclub pictures
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It’s almost like he’s a cult leader and people will believe whatever he says because the cult is convinced people are out to get them.
 
[h=1]California Church Leaders Lured Homeless Into Forced Labor, U.S. Says[/h]A dozen leaders of a California-based ministry have been accused of forcing vulnerable people to panhandle “for the financial benefit of the church leaders,” federal prosecutors said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/us/california-church-homeless-panhandling.html

The 12 defendants, including the Rev. Victor Gonzalez, former pastor of Imperial Valley Ministries who the authorities say oversaw the conspiracy, were arrested this week in San Diego, El Centro, Calif., and Brownsville, Tex. They are all charged with conspiring to commit forced labor, document servitude and benefits fraud.
The top charges they face carry the maximum possible penalties of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Federal investigators began looking into the church, which was not registered as a nonprofit entity, in 2017 — after several people broke free and contacted the authorities.
In one instance, a 17-year-old Mexican-American woman from El Paso, who had been locked inside one of the group homes — a beige bungalow in El Centro — escaped by throwing a dresser drawer through a window, climbing atop broken glass shards and running — while bleeding — to a neighboring house, according to the indictment, which was unsealed on Tuesday.
The young woman, referred to as P.P. in the indictment, was recruited into the organization after getting out of a bad relationship and believed “nice church people” were giving her a good opportunity, according to Assistant United States Attorney Christopher Tenorio, who is prosecuting the case.
But after arriving in El Centro, she was not allowed to call her father, could not leave without supervision and was ordered to read only the Bible and “not to discuss things of the world,” the authorities said.

Some of the victims — most of whom were homeless — were ordered to “fundraise” on the streets for hours at a time, handing out religious brochures and Pixy Sticks in exchange for money.
In some cases, victims agreed to give up to 40 percent of their monthly government food allowance to pay for expenses. But according to prosecutors, church leaders took all of it, gave the benefits to people who did not qualify and prevented rightful recipients from applying for jobs.
If they resisted or said they would leave, leaders threatened to take away their children, deny them transportation home and told them that their loved ones had rejected them and that “only God” loved them, according to prosecutors. Others were forced to hand over personal property, passports and immigration papers to ensure they would not leave, prosecutors said.
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No surprise, but more dirt on Jerry Falwell, Jr. has emerged. Not only is he a scam artist, sex pervert, and hypocrite of the highest order, he's apparently also a dick to work with as well. Reuters recently obtained emails that show that Falwell has been ridiculing and disparaging Liberty students and staff since he became the school's president in 2008. When a group of Liberty students wanted to use a gym that Falwell wanted kept limited for use only to himself, family members, and university executives, Falwell ridiculed them as "social misfits" in an email. He called another student "physically retarded", emailed that the Dean of the Liberty Engineering school was "a bag of hot air" who "couldn't spell the word profit", and called a Liberty campus police chief a "half-wit" who was "easily manipulated", among other things. What a great Christian family man and moral example he is!
 
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Highland Deac said:
No surprise, but more dirt on Jerry Falwell, Jr. has emerged. Not only is he a scam artist, sex pervert, and hypocrite of the highest order, he's apparently also a dick to work with as well. Reuters recently obtained emails that show that Falwell has been ridiculing and disparaging Liberty students and staff since he became the school's president in 2008. When a group of Liberty students wanted to use a gym that Falwell wanted kept limited for use only to himself, family members, and university executives, Falwell ridiculed them as "social misfits" in an email. He called another student "physically retarded", emailed that the Dean of the Liberty Engineering school was "a bag of hot air" who "couldn't spell the word profit", and called a Liberty campus police chief a "half-wit" who was "easily manipulated", among other things. What a great Christian family man and moral example he is!
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Seems consistent with Trump Christianity
 
Deacfreak07 said:
Seems consistent with Trump Christianity
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There’s a mega church near my parents home back home in TX. We used to be members way back in the day (when I was a kid) so we know a lot of members. Every time I drive by now I check out the cars in the lot: Mercedes, land rovers, BMW’s, Tesla’s, it’s a who’s who of keeping up with the Jones’s. Almost all of the people I know who go there are Trumper’s, or if not outwardly, are republicans to the death. Mostly white.

My sister went to this church’s pastor years after we had gone to college. She was in college and was going to do some mission work and asked the pastor for some meager funding. He said he’d let her know and never got back with her after she made multiple attempts. Not a peep, not even a “hey sorry but we’ve got too many missionaries we are supporting right now, check back later.” He’s a pretty nationally known pastor who knows doubt takes in the cash.

I saw a member/family friend, after the El Paso shooting, say the church was hosting a “prayer session” to pray for the victims. Cool. Do something that’ll actually work and support background checks and banking extended mags/AR’s which were used in El Paso, you comfortable, privileged, “pro life,” Mercedes SUV driving sack.
 
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