Jerry Fallwell reopening Liberty University in VA this week--orders faculty back

[Mrs. Overall]

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Reid Wilson
@PoliticsReid

Liberty University will reopen this week, Jerry Falwell inviting students to return and ordering faculty to come back to work. https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/thousands-of-liberty-students-expected-to-return-to-campus-amid/article_a7b91be3-217a-598e-a367-34950271e6c6.html …

As the coronavirus threatens to spread across the Lynchburg region, Liberty University officials are preparing to welcome back up to 5,000 students from spring break this week.

Defying a national trend of campus closures, President Jerry Falwell Jr. has invited students to return to residence halls and has directed faculty members to continue to report to campus even as most classes move online.

[LiberalFighter]

1. I wonder how many won't respond?

[Clash City Rocker]

2. A guy who doesn't believe in Darwinism is about to prove it

[smirkymonkey]

5. Good.

Natural selection. Fine with me. As long as they stay amongst themselves.

[Celerity]

23. thread winner

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. You first, Jerry. I bet he's hiding out somewhere, hoarding money, toilet paper

and pool boys.

[dalton99a]

12. Yep

[GeorgeGist]

4. Jim Jones would be proud.

[dalton99a]

6. What an asshole

[uponit7771]

7. Would he be liable for people if they got sick with virus? Thx in advance

[Windy City Charlie]

8. I don't understand it

What's with this rush to get things back to normal, when everyone knows we're nowhere close to that?

[Newest Reality]

28. Well,

It seems to me that God has never been very good with money and it may be time to get some more and that's the Will of God.

[global1]

9. Now I Believe It....

It's a cult. Trump has a cult following.

[BeyondGeography]

10. They're so special

Sealed away in their Jeebus Bubble.

[underpants]

11. I don't see this listed as an essential business on the Governor's order

And Executive Order #53 specifically bans gatherings of more than 10 people.

[MerryBlooms]

20. Rec. Criminal.

[jberryhill]

13. Good. Keep 'em there. Don't let anyone out

[spanone]

14. Rename it: Jim Jones University

[guillaumeb]

26. Brutally funny.

Well done.

[marble falls]

15. I guess Jerry diidn't get this lesson at the seminary ...

Luke 4:1-14

9 The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here. 10 For it is written: “ ‘He will command his angels concerning you to guard you carefully; 11 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’* ” 12 Jesus answered, “It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

(“You shall not tempt the LORD your God as you tempted Him in Massah. Deuteronomy 6:16)

*Deuteronomy 6:16

This is also one example of "even Satan can quote scripture".

[BeckyDem]

16. Criminal.

The decision for students to return to campus drew criticism from LU professor Marybeth Davis Baggett, who voiced concern that the decision would enable COVID-19's spread. She called on trustees to step in and close the campus.

"This decision runs contrary to the three other residential schools in our area who have closed their dorms, allowing only those with nowhere else to go to remain," Baggett wrote in an editorial published by Religion News Service and the Washington Post. "I have no animus toward Jerry Falwell Jr. He simply should not have a monopoly on this decision."

Falwell described the students' return as "seamless," and said he personally greeted many of them.

"They were talking about being glad to be back. I was joking about how they pretty much had the whole place to themselves and told all of them to enjoy it," Falwell said. "Our thinking was, 'Let's get them back as soon as we can -- the ones who want to come back.'"

The Virginia Department of Health counted seven deaths in Virginia among almost 600 who have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. and the nation's territories as of Tuesday, according to tracking by Johns Hopkins University at its Coronavirus Resource Center. Of nearly 393,000 people infected globally, more than 17,000 have died and nearly 103,000 have recovered.

http://www.bpnews.net/54516/amid-covid19-liberty-university-welcomes-students-to-campus

[empedocles]

17. In his perverse way, falwel is educating Liberty U students/alumni/supporters in

real time, real life . . . reality

[Norbert]

18. Time to build a wall

around Liberty University.

[maxrandb]

19. Governor Northam needs to send the National Guard to shut it down

Fuck these fuckity fucks

[underpants]

21. Yep. Enforce Executive Order 53. Issued yesterday.

https://www.governor.virginia.gov/executive-actions/

[OnDoutside]

22. Rapture, Baby, Rapture !!!

Fucking idiots.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

24. What the heck, there's always plenty more suckers where those came from.

[Totally Tunsie]

25. Good. Lock them all in there, Falwell included.

Then the NIH can commandeer the dorms to use as a containment facility to hold all that CV spreads to.

[paulkienitz]

27. two populations are at high risk from covid-19: the elderly, and dumbshits in denial

[Hassler]

29. Jerry Grifter Jr kills just like his dead, goat molester dad.

[Eliot Rosewater]

30. The absolute least Christian thing a person could do in this situation, knowingly endangering

100 people for EACH of the THOUSANDS of students and faculty.

This Falwell person has no relationship AT ALL with the Christ he talks about.

What is 100 times 3000...FUCKER

[BamaRefugee]

31. The water fountains will be dispensing Kool-Aid.

[JDC]

32. What could go wrong?

(Rhetorical)

[Midnight Writer]

33. Falwell is afraid if they close the school, people will want their money back.