Ep. 132: Jerry Falwell, The Moral Majority, and Liberty University (Part 1)

Leaving Eden Podcast

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True Crime, Cult, History, Survivor, Theology, Exfundie, Religion, Lgbtq, Christianity, Exvangelical, Documentary, Fundamentalism, Baptist, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Deconstruction, Inspirational Women, Duggars, Inspirational

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🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Gavi and Sadie discuss the history of Jerry Falwell's ministry at Thomas Road Baptist Church, his political activism with The Moral Majority, and his christian university, Liberty University.

TW: In general we talk about a lot of potentially triggering topics on this show, including but not limited to suicide and mental health, racism, misogyny, PTSD and PTSD symptoms, child abuse, mental, physical, and sexual abuse, and spiritual abuse including guilt, shame, and fear. In most episodes we’ll mention at least a few of these topics, but we try very hard to avoid graphic detail unless it’s relevant to the story we’re telling, and we do our best to give the audience a heads-up before going into detail on any of these topics. This episode has a general content warning for racism and homophobia, but it’s not as brash or as intentionally hurtful as the Ruckman episode for example. We are going to read some quotes from Falwell on race and on LGBTQ people, but we’ll give a heads-up before we get into that.

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0:00.0	I'm John Robbins, and joining me on How Do You Coke this week is the musician Justin Hawkins.
0:05.2	How big a meatloaf fan, I.
0:06.5	A big meatloaf fan.
0:08.0	I remember he came over to me, grabbed me, and he squeezed me, and he said to me,
0:12.2	I want you to think of me as your father.
0:15.0	And he had like sausage on his breath.
0:17.8	So every time I smell sage and pork, I think of meatloaf.
0:21.8	So that's how do you cope with me,
0:23.3	John Robbins.
0:24.1	Find us wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.9	Roll, rolling river of time, you've healed me in too many days.
0:46.3	No regrets, no confusion, there'll be no pollution.
0:53.3	I'm so thankful I've decided to change. There'll be no pollution.
1:00.7	I'm so thankful I've decided to change my ways.
1:03.9	Welcome back to the Leaving Eden podcast.
1:06.1	My name is Gavriel Ha Cohen.
1:10.3	And I'm cult survivor, cult expert, Sadie Carpenter.
1:15.1	Today, we are talking about the liberal fundies.
1:17.8	Maybe they're not the liberal fundies.
1:21.6	They're the fundies that say that Jack Hiles would have said there's a liberal fundee.
1:21.9	No.
1:23.2	Correct.
	...

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