Christian evangelist, activist, and religious leader Jerry Falwell was always forthright in his opinions and interpretations of the Bible. As founder of a Christian media empire (National Liberty Journal), Falwell was able to spread his faith and ideas even further.
Although his statements were sometimes deemed controversial by liberal media, it never deterred him from his work. Here are seven of Falwell's most memorable statements on life and all its glory, or lack thereof:
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1. "When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit."
2. "I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity."
3. "God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine."
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4. "We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism … we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today … our battle is with Satan himself."
5. "What we've worked on for 30 years, to mobilize people of faith and value in this country, what we've done through these years is coming to culmination right now."
6. "If I were doing something the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible."
7. "I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!"
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