Jerry Falwell Jr., bambo yemwe anali ndi mbadwa ya evangelical, adayambitsa zododometsa pakati pa okonda chikhristu pomwe zonyansa zingapo zidamuchotsa ngati Purezidenti wa Liberty University.
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Mu Ogasiti 2020, Falwell adasiya ntchito ngati Purezidenti wa Liberty University atamuchitira chipongwe mkazi wake komanso wogwira ntchito padziwe losambira.
M'mafunso a nthawi yayitali a magazini, Falwell adakambirana za chikhulupiriro chake, banja lake, ndi kugwa kuchokera ku koleji ya evangelical, yokhazikitsidwa ndi Jerry Falwell Sr.
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Vanity Fair inanena kuti tsiku lomwe Falwell adasiya ntchito ku Liberty, adayankhulana ndi wayilesi yake yapa National Public Radio ndipo adapempha gawo lakulankhula kwa Martin Luther King "Ndili ndi Maloto". “Mfulu potsiriza, mfulu potsiriza. Ndikuthokoza Mulungu Wamphamvuyonse, tsopano ndamasulidwa!”
Kwa zaka 49 zazaka zake, membala wa banja la Falwell adayendetsa Liberty, Falwell wamkulu akumwalira mu 2007.
Becki Falwell, yemwe anakwatiwa ndi Jerry Jr. kuyambira mu 1987, ananena poyankha kuti: “Tinayenera kuchita zinthu zinazake. Banjali linakhala “otchuka m’Chikristu usiku umodzi wokha,” monga momwe mtolankhani Gabriel Sherman analembera pamene anamuuza kuti kusungulumwa kumene kunapangitsa kuti ayambe chibwenzi ndi “chonong’oneza bondo” chake chachikulu.
Mtolankhaniyo ananena kuti Jerry Falwell Sr. anali “chidzudzulo choopsa pamaso pa anthu”—“wothandizira kusalolera,” John McCain nthaŵi ina anatero.
Komabe, Jerry Jr. anakumbukira kuti atate wake anali ololera kunyumba.
Iye anati: “Bambo anga sanali m’gulu la makolo opondereza amene ankayesetsa kulamulira ana awo.
Bamboyo sanakakamize mwanayo kupita kutchalitchi ndipo sankasamala kuti mwana wake anatolera zolemba za Fleetwood Mac ndi Beatles panthawi imene Abaptisti ankatcha nyimbo za rock ndi roll kuti "nyimbo za mdierekezi."
Falwell Snr. nayenso sanatsutse pamene Jerry ananena kuti sanafune kufalitsa uthenga wabwino ali wamng’ono.
“Anthu ankandiuza kuti, ‘Tikudziwa kuti udzakhala mlaliki chifukwa bambo ako ndi amodzi. Ndinaganiza kuti Chimenechi ndi chinthu chomaliza chimene ndikufuna kukhala,” anatero Jerry.
Pokumbukira m’mbuyo, Jerry ananena kuti moyo woyendayenda wa atate wake unapereka chiwombolo ku ukwati wotsendereza.
“Bambo anga anafuna kuyenda m’dziko monga kuthaŵa,” anatero Jerry. Anakumbukira kuti malingaliro a dziko la amayi ake adakhudza abambo ake. “Anafuna kukhala moyo wa mlaliki wa m’tauni yaing’ono. Iye sanamulole kuti azisokoneza.”
Jerry anati: “Mayi anga ndi amene anachititsa kuti bambo anga ayambe kuchita zinthu zoipa.
Mitu Yachikhristu anagwira mawu a Russell Moore, pulezidenti wakale wa Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, anatero m’kalata yake. Falwell Jr. ameneyo sanali wachinyengo popeza “anatiuza mobwerezabwereza mmene ankaonera dziko lapansi.”
Moore anavomereza kuti zimene Falwell anachita zinali zachinyengo. Komabe, ananenanso kuti “sitinaimbe mlandu Jerry Falwell Jr. chifukwa cha anthu onse amene anavutika chifukwa cha zosankha zake.
“Ndikudziwa kuti munthu akatiuza kuti anali m’malo ovuta kwambiri, odziwononga kwa nthaŵi yaitali chonchi, timayenera kudzifunsa kuti, ‘Kodi tinanyengedwa kwambiri moti sitingathe kumuthandiza? ? Kapena kodi tinasiya kumvetsera pamene iye anali kuchita bwino?'
“Ngati chotsiriziracho, vuto siliri chinyengo cha Jerry Falwell Jr. Vuto ndi ife.”
