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Thursday 12 July 2012

I couldn’t find any acknowledgment of Falwell’s sordid past on Liberty’s website; his hagiography is about what you’d expect. I suppose it’s asking a lot to expect any university to voluntarily advertize the skeletons in its closet, but here’s what I can’t get past: Imagine you’re Jerry Falwell. You weren’t just ambivalent about the civil rights movement, as a lot of white people were. You were one of the “massive resisters” who used every means at your disposal, short of physical violence, to stop it. Then, let’s imagine, in later years you realize the error of your ways and repent. I don’t just mean you become embarrassed as times change and your earlier actions appear in a less favorable light. I mean, as a Christian, you realize that you were working against the kingdom of God, you realize your heart was full of hatred for your fellow man, you begin to question whether you were even a Christian at that time. And with horror and disgust and many tears, you repent. Frankly, anything less from a “Christian leader” of Falwell’s stature is not good enough. Now, if you had undergone that true repentance, can you imagine not doing everything in your power to make amends? Wouldn’t you be incredibly humbled? Wouldn’t you want to make a very public, abject apology? Wouldn’t you want the university you founded to acknowledge its institutional sin? So all I’m asking, still, is where is the evidence for this basic repentance? God, Country, and Conservatism at Liberty University

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