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Th salomon e 73 year old was found unresponsive late Tuesday morning and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.Falwell physician, Dr. Carl Moore, said the evangelist had been suffering from a heart rhythm abnormality, according to the Associated Press.For decades, Falwell had been one of the leading conservative voices in politics.Jerry has been a tower of strength on many of the moral issues which have confronted our nation, evangelist Pat Robertson said Tuesday.Falwell founded a fundamentalist church in an abandoned bottling plant in 1956, which grew into the 22,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church. He then founded Liberty University in 1971, according to Reuters.He became a nationwide leader of Christians through his Old Time Gospel Hour that was carried on television stations around the country.At first he opposed mixing preaching with politics, but changed his view and founded the Moral Majority in 1979. The political organization grew to 6.5 million members and raised $69 million to support conservative candidates and campaign against abortion, homosexuality, pornography and bans on school prayer, reported the AP.He was fond of saying the Bible referred to Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.Falwell credited his Mora stanley cup l Majority with getting millions of conservative voters registered and helping elect President Reagan in 1980.In 1983, U.S. News and World Report named him one of the 25 most in nike dunk fluential peop