Jerry Falwell Jr., the disgraced former head of Liberty University, is launching a new set of attacks against the institution he once ran.
Axios reports that journalist Tim Alberta is coming out with a new book in which Falwell Jr. candidly admits that his late father, Jerry Falwell, Sr., founded the university solely to be an institutional arm of the Republican Party and not to be a Christian university aimed at spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.
In fact, Falwell Jr. is slamming his brother, current Liberty Chancellor Jonathan Falwell, for trying to actually run it like a legitimate Christian educational institution rather than a front for training hardcore culture warriors.
As if that weren't enough, Falwell Jr. said his brother was blowing it by surrounding himself with too many honest people.
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"It's exactly what my dad didn't want to see happen," he told Alberta. "You see, my dad didn't have the money back then to hire people who were honest and competent. So, he typically had to choose, one or the other. And those are the people who were still around when the school became prosperous."
In an interview with Axios, Alberta said that Fallwell Jr.'s criticisms "will rock the Liberty community to its core — not just because he's antagonizing his brother, but because he's speaking difficult truths about Jerry Sr. and America's leading Christian university that have long been strategically concealed."
