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In addition to the EP's controversial artwork depicting a gold Christ figure on a cross of dollar bills, the lyrics contained Biafra's most biting social and political commentary yet, and songs such as " Moral Majority ", " Nazi Punks Fuck Off!
He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy ( now Liberty Christian Academy ) in 1967, Liberty University in 1971, and cofounded the Moral Majority in 1979.
In 1979, Falwell founded the Moral Majority, which became one of the largest political lobby groups for evangelical Christians in the United States during the 1980s.
The Moral Majority was founded as being " pro-family ", " pro-life ", " pro-defense " and pro-Israel. The group is credited with delivering two thirds of the white, evangelical Christian vote to Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential election.
During his time as head of the Moral Majority, Falwell consistently pushed for Republican candidates and for conservative politics.
Among the American Christian leaders who spoke out in Moon's defense were conservative Jerry Falwell, head of Moral Majority, and liberal Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Since about 1980, the Christian right has been associated with several institutions including the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council.
Jerry Falwell, whose founding of the Moral Majority was a key step in the formation of the " New Christian Right "
Led by Robert Grant's advocacy group Christian Voice, Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, Ed McAteer's Religious Roundtable Council, James Dobson's Focus on the Family, and Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network, the new Religious Right combined conservative politics with evangelical and fundamentalist teachings.
The birth of the New Christian right, however, is usually traced to a 1979 meeting where televangelist Jerry Falwell was urged to create a " Moral Majority " organization.
Soon, Moral Majority became a general term for the conservative political activism of evangelists and fundamentalists such as Pat Robertson, James Robinson, and Jerry Falwell.
Some have linked Israel to Biblical prophesies ; for example, Ed McAteer, founder of the Moral Majority, said " I believe that we are seeing prophecy unfold so rapidly and dramatically and wonderfully and, without exaggerating, makes me breathless.
Beginning with Grant's American Christian Cause in 1974, Christian Voice throughout the 1970s and Falwell's Moral Majority in the 1980s, the Christian Right began to have a major impact on American politics.
The underpinnings for the contemporary moral panic were found in a rise of five factors in the years leading up to the 1980s: The establishment of Fundamentalist Christianity and political organization of the Moral Majority ; the rise of the Anti-cult movement which spread ideas of abusive cults kidnapping and brainwashing children and teens ; the appearance of the Church of Satan and other explicitly Satanist groups that added a kernel of truth to the existence of Satanic cults ; the appearance of the child abuse industry and a group of professionals dedicated to the protection of children ; and the popularization of posttraumatic stress disorder, repressed memory and corresponding survivor movement.
* Jerry Falwell ( 1933 – 2007 ), senior pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church and founder of the Moral Majority
The program quoted Paul Weyrich, one of the founders of the conservative activist organization the Moral Majority, as saying " The Washington Post became very arrogant and they just decided that they would determine what was news and what wasn't news and they wouldn't cover a lot of things that went on.
Jerry Falwell, whose founding of the Moral Majority was a key step in the formation of the New Christian Right
The Moral Majority was a prominent American political organization associated with the Christian right.
The origins of the Moral Majority can be traced to 1976, when Jerry Falwell embarked on a series of “ I Love America ” rallies across the country to raise awareness of social issues important to Falwell.
Having already been a part of a well-established network of ministers and ministries, within a few years Falwell was favorably positioned to launch the Moral Majority.
The Moral Majority was formally initiated as a result of a struggle for control of an American conservative Christian advocacy group known as Christian Voice during 1978.
During a 1979 meeting, they urged televangelist Jerry Falwell to found Moral Majority ( a phrase coined by Weyrich ).
Falwell and Weyrich founded the Moral Majority in June 1979.
The Moral Majority was a southern-oriented organization of the Christian Right, although the Moral Majority s state chapters and political activity extended beyond the South.

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Falwell was at the head of the Moral Majority and maintained an advisory board, constituting the organization s primary leadership.
By 1987, Falwell retired as the formal head of the Moral Majority, although he maintained an active and visible role within the organization.

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Between 1748 and 1751 the Philosophes reached their most influential period, as Montesquieu published Spirit of Laws ( 1748 ) and Jean Jacques Rousseau published Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences ( 1750 ).
** Moral relativism maintains that all moral judgments have their origins either in societal or in individual standards, and that no single objective standard exists by which one can assess the truth of a moral proposition.
In 1809 Gall began writing his greatest work " The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in General, and of the Brain in Particular, with Observations upon the possibility of ascertaining the several Intellectual and Moral Dispositions of Man and Animal, by the configuration of their Heads.
Mars apparently emerged as a refuge from the fascist censorship laws of Earth, until the arrival of a government organization referred to only as " Moral Climates " and their enforcement divisions, the " Dismantlers " and " Burning Crew ".
Moral universalists argue further that their system often does justify tolerance, and that disagreement with moral systems does not always demand interference, and certainly not aggressive interference.
Moral absolutism is an ethical view that certain actions are absolutely right or wrong, regardless of other contexts such as their consequences or the intentions behind them.
Given the importance of these concepts in Moral Politics, it is important to consider their meaning along with how each view suggests and is justified by a corresponding view of the nature of child rearing, morality, and justice.
These officers, in addition to fulfilling their specific functions, also act collectively as the " Republican Moral Council " to submit to the Supreme Tribunal actions they believe are illegal, particularly those which violate the Constitution.
Moral philosophers call this is a virtue ethic, where human beings compare their actions to the way an ideal type would act-in this case the ideal entrepreneur.
# The metaphysical thesis: Moral propositions are true when actions and other objects of moral assessment have the relevant moral properties ( so that the relevant moral facts obtain ), where these facts and properties are robust: their metaphysical status, whatever it is, is not relevantly different from that of ( certain types of ) ordinary non-moral facts and properties.
The state chapters of the Moral Majority were financially independent from the national organization and relied on local resources to conduct their activities.
Political activity of the Moral Majority divided accordingly, with the national Moral Majority office usually focused on addressing multiple issues through Congress while local branches tended to work on a single issue within their respective states.
As far as elections, state Moral Majority chapters tended to deliberately focus their efforts towards particular candidates.
Leaders within the Moral Majority asked ministers give their congregants political direction, reminding congregants when to vote, who to vote for, and why the Moral Majority held particular positions on issues.
Moral standards were very high at the school, and all pupils were required to attend church every Sunday and to be in their rooms at 7: 30 pm except on Fridays evenings which were reserved for social activities.
After the 16 May 1877 crisis and the fall of the Ordre Moral government led by Marshall MacMahon, the Republicans voted Jules Ferry's 1880 laws on free education ( 1881 ) and mandatory and laic education ( 1882 ), which Catholics felt was a gross violation of their rights.
Johnson argues that his and Lakoff's recent research ( presented in their 1999 book Philosophy in the Flesh ) on the role of such bodily schemas in cognition and language shows the ways in which aesthetic aspects of experience structure every dimension of our experience and understanding, such as in our ethical reasoning ( as in Lakoff's book Moral Imagination ).
* Preliminary Guide to the Albert Heman Ely, Jr. Family Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, Materials document the 1930 meeting of Ely and his wife, Constance Jennings Ely with Frank Buchman, and their subsequent involvement in the Moral Re-armament movement, Yale Library.
* A Comparative View of Christianity, and of the other Forms of Religion with regard to their Moral Tendency ( 2 vols, 1826 ).
The first and second " Moral Tales " were never theatrically released and Rohmer was disappointed by their poor technical quality.
Rohmer and Schroder then sold the rights of two of their short films to French TV in order to raise $ 60, 000 to produce the feature film La Collectionneuse in 1967, the third " Moral Tale ".
" If spiritual Faith is a natural duty — namely, if it is obligatory on account of the relation in which men stand to God as creatures to their Creator — it is commanded by the Moral Law, and it was incumbent on Adam as much as on any of his posterity.

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