Book · 2012 · Biography & Autobiography
God's Right Hand
How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right
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I'm going to quote now from a very fantastic book, God's Right Hand by Michael Winters. Jerry Fwell would later recall that his father was a prankster.
What they say about it
- Quotes from the book“I'm going to quote from God's Right Hand again”4
- Context on Falwell“added some additional context”2
The best things said about it
I'm going to quote from God's right hand again. In 1994, in a mailing sent out to supporters of the Liberty Alliance, Fwell wrote that the Clinton administration is set to award thousands and thousands of immigration visas.
In God's right hand, Michael Winters notes that Fwell was constitutionally incapable of eating healthy food.
I'm going to quote from God's right hand again. Fwell's Liberty Journal discerned a sinister agenda regarding Tinky Winky. He is purple, the gay pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle, the gay pride symbol.
I'm going to quote again from God's Right Hand. Once to punish a neighbor the gang thought had called the police on them.
I'm going to quote again from God's right hand. One early sermon from 1958 has come down to us printed in the newsletter that Fwell distributed to those who watched his television show.
Reading all of this added some additional context to something I'd read in God's Right Hand, which definitely takes the the angle that like the moral majority was all about abortion.
Why people recommend it
God's Right Hand by Michael Sean Winters is a biographical study of Jerry Falwell and the foundational figures of the modern religious right. Robert Evans referenced the book extensively across multiple episodes of Behind the Bastards to examine Falwell's life, rhetoric, and political organizing. Evans used the text to provide context on Falwell's upbringing, noting accounts of his father's abusive pranks alongside descriptions of Falwell's own increasingly severe pranks during his youth. The host quoted from the book to illustrate Falwell's early segregationist sermons, his direct mail fundraising campaigns targeting immigration and public health issues, and his controversial cultural commentary, including claims regarding the Teletubbies character Tinky Winky. Additionally, Evans cited Winters's observations regarding Falwell's personal habits, such as his eating patterns and campus behavior. By drawing upon God's Right Hand, Evans offered listeners a detailed look into the personal history and ideological mechanisms that enabled Falwell to build a powerful political coalition around conservative religious values.
Every mention
Robert Evans I'm going to quote from God's right hand again. In 1994, in a mailing sent out to supporters of the Liberty… 8
“I'm going to quote from God's right hand again. In 1994, in a mailing sent out to supporters of the Liberty Alliance, Fwell wrote that the Clinton administration is set to award thousands and thousands of immigration visas”
“In God's right hand, Michael Winters notes that Fwell was constitutionally incapable of eating healthy food.”
“I'm going to quote from God's right hand again. Fwell's Liberty Journal discerned a sinister agenda regarding Tinky Winky. He is purple, the gay pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle, the gay pride symbol”
“I'm going to quote from God's murder. Come on. He just joked about murdering people. He drove his SUV around campus developing a new prank of revving the motor at students”
“I'm going to quote now from a very fantastic book, God's Right Hand by Michael Winters. Jerry Fwell would later recall that his father was a prankster.”
“Now, uh Jerry's pranks grew more brutal in his late teens. I'm going to quote again from God's right hand. Once to punish a neighbor the gang thought uh had called the police on them.”
“I'm going to quote again from God's right hand. One early sermon from 1958 has come down to us printed in the newsletter that Fwell distributed to those who watched his television show.”
“reading all of this added some additional context to something I'd read in God's right hand, which definitely takes the the angle that like the moral majority was all about abortion.”