Jerry Falwell: From an empire to an unravelling

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-070515falwellempire,1,5347886.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Jerry Falwell: From an empire to an unravelling

By David Reed
The Associated Press
Published December 14, 1992


Lynchburg, Va. -- Over the years, as Margaret Durbin watched the Rev. Jerry Falwell on "The Old-Time Gospel Hour," she began to view him as "the one televangelist you could trust and believe in."

Captivated by Falwell's unflagging optimism and assurances, Mrs. Durbin and her husband, retirees in Dallas, invested $ 10,000 in his ministry.

They never suspected it was in trouble.

They did not know that Falwell's Liberty University was falling $ 73 million in debt, that "The Old-Time Gospel Hour" would soon be $ 16 million in the red, or that the deed to his Thomas Road Baptist Church would be in the hands of the federal government.

Or that in 1989, the same year the Durbins made their investment, Falwell would disband the Moral Majority, the political organization with which he had tried to dominate the national agenda, and shut down his national television network. In the blink of an eye, Falwell had gone from a central figure on the nation's stage to a bit player, burdened by enormous problems.

[tularetom]

1. She gonna be PISSED when she finds out Rev. Moon owns Liberty Univ.

[undergroundpanther]

2. Every bullies empire

Fails.And they leave us a legacy of what NOT to be.

I hope in the spirit world Sekhmet comes to you in her anger and makes you see what you have done, and you feel every person's suffering that your evil beliefs and scamming hurt and destroyed. I hope the suffering of millions YOU incited and caused hurts you as if it was your own pain..forever. You putrid piece of shit..I hope in death after Sekhmet has made you face the truth of what a vile monster you were,and you flee in terror ,you are captured by your archon half maker the blind idiot god yahweh, and he does know you, and your essence is devoured by him going back from whence it came,and your empty husk is thrown in the outer darkness like a piece of trash..,face the spiritual fate of all poisonous parasites...gnash them teeth you foul worm and know you are hated even in death by the true beings your words and deeds helped hurt and fetter here on prison Earth...

[Throwing Stones]

3. good riddance to the fucker

the entire planet is better off without that shitstain

and, no, I don't care about the feelings of his family: a hate-mongering asshole is a hate-mongering asshole.