Billy Graham

(1) compared to the likes of pat robertson and jerry falwell, he SEEMS sane and likeable.

(2) he's friendly w/ bono, and was friendly w/ johnny cash.

(3) to paraphrase (from memory) a line from chinatown: old evangelists are like politicians, buildings, and whores -- they become more "respected" the older they get (XPOST w/ oops).

And judging by his stance on segregation, I'd say he comes from a different social tradition than most prominent contemporary fundies.

however,

1) compared to the likes of pat robertson and jerry falwell

this is the key bit. 'tis one thing to be a religious guy who's conservative, 'tis quite another to be a vocal reactionary fuckhead.

Prior to attending a video relay of Dr. Graham’s 60s successful Earls Court meetings my father was an atheist and my mother passive C of E. As a result of hearing Dr. Graham’s preaching they converted to evangelical protestant Christianity and like many converts became zealous and deeply devout, and remain so. I was born the following year.

Of their five children one was named after Dr. Graham and died five days later (RIP); one is now training to become a minister; one is involved in illegal Christian activity in a large East Asian country; one is estranged from mainstream Christianity whilst holding some idiosyncratic religious views of his own and I’m an atheist

Why has Graham been such a successful evangelist? I’ve attended rallies, then as a believer myself, and found him to be little more than an average preacher. I suspect my parents conversion was part of that 60s quest for ‘spiritual’ answers to life’s conundrums, only they looked towards western rather than eastern religion. It’s left them with a narrow dogmatic view of life and morality that I was raised in and reject, and sometimes feel I’m still recovering from.

Also, is calling his latest preaching campaign "The Final CRUSADE" really the right terminology to be using?

Fucking assholes.

Almost thirty years after President Nixon resigned in disgrace, the tapes continue to come out, their power to sully reputations undimmed by time.

Now it is the Rev. Billy Graham who has been made to feel the lash of his own words, secretly taped by the president who sought his spiritual counsel and used him for "cover."

We knew, long ago, of Nixon's own anti-Semitism. We heard his voice on the first wave of tapes, wanting to know how his daughters were being deployed in his re-election campaign. When staffers told him they were scheduled to appear at functions in support of the arts, he protested, "No, no, that's Jews and queers."

Nixon himself has long since lost the power to shock us, even when we hear him proposing to drop nuclear weapons on Vietnam.

But this conversation with Billy Graham is something else again. Here is the most admired and influential religious leader in America complaining to the president of the United States about the Jews and their "stranglehold" on the media, and blaming them for "all the pornography."

Even when Nixon replies that he agrees but "can't say that" in public, Graham presses the point: Yes, right, but if you get elected to a second term, then we could do something about the problem.

Some posturing around him this week. (I'd forgotten he was alive. Also, fuck him.)

http://goqnotes.com/34858/state-gop-wants-statue-of-billy-graham-in-u-s-capitol/

Finally dead at 99.

i wish there was a hell for him and Big Dick to burn in

the feelgood death of the day, just a pity the cunt almost batted a 100.

Had no idea he was still alive.

Same here. No RIPs from me for this a-hole.

http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Billy+Graham+Cliff+Richard+EXP+NEW+r5ZYHkCzhSWl.jpg

this was the lead item on (BBC) Radio 2 news just now

who tf cares about Billy Graham in the UK

I thought the revive would be for the real Billy Graham

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Shit, I can remember Billy Graham posters everywhere in the 80's when he was making a UK appearance. There would be sold out stadiums of god-botherers turning out for him during his UK "crusades".

He made a pretty big impact in the UK, in the 50s and 60s at least.

he was still filling Wembley in the 80's, he was almost bigger than Sheffield Wednesday!

in good company then

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/23/09/c3/2309c3168522a46ee8e833d8ba34bab7.jpg

if anyone has videos of the 'dance' segment of that event, please post

My grandma loved Billy Graham, and I can remember my parents watching televised crusades in the 60s/70s. My mom's still pretty religious, but thinks Graham went senile in later years. And she doesn't like his son Franklin at all.

pic.twitter.com/yYa3d7Td45

— da share z0ne (@dasharez0ne) February 21, 2018

i didn't realize that mike pence's fucked up thing where he can't be alone with a woman without being tempted by sex comes straight from billy graham

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Graham_rule

well I know it didn't come from Elmer Gantry.

lmaooooo da Share Z0ne otm as always

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBK7Zpdh-N8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BEa_DqbEYE&feature=youtu.be

and the trolling award goes to

I am hearing that on his deathbed #BillyGraham received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!

— Sleeping with the Anime (@SeanRMoorhead) February 21, 2018

hah!

the replies to that post are fuckin priceless

yeah, the Faithful are unshaken

stealing

Fuck this fucking honor. I can't imagine how appalled Rosa Parks' family is. (Really, anyone who knows of Rosa Parks.)

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-honors-rev-billy-grahams-extraordinary-life/article/2650274