Billy Graham's Museum/legacy

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Billy Graham's Museum/legacy

Of course, the new Billy Graham Museum will not mention anything about
how Graham and Nixon conspired to "do something about" the Jews, who,
according to Graham, were "ruining America". Graham, talking with
Nixon, was caught on tape discussing how Nixon was in the right place
to do something about the Jews, and how they were ruining the country
-- those were were Billy's own words, too.

Nixon and Graham discussed a lot of frightening things on these tapes,
including how it wasn't a big deal to escalate the Vietnam war, and
kill a few million more infidels and commies. Graham seemed very
comfortable advising that it's okay to make more people die to protect
them from themselves.

Of course, Graham actually published an apology for the comments about
Jews, which went public a few years ago. LIke most of the republicans
who have set foot in the White House, he claims a convenient memory
lapse. He simply doesn't recall those comments, but when you read the
transcripts, and hear the tape, it's clear that what he said about
Jews was a strongly held belief.

Also going unmentioned is how Graham pretty much invented the modern
money-begging televangelist. His format was copied by dozens of other
preachers, and a wave of TV ministers with a need to collect money for
some emergency or another, eventually led to 24-hour evangelical
crisis-TV. It used to be that Evangelists needed lots of money to send
Bibles to communist countries, where the Bible was allegedly banned
(which was not really the case, but what do poor, uneducated Americans
living in rural America know about communist countries that isn't
propaganda?). Then the dreaded "Homosexual agenda" created new
emergencies, as TV ministries had to "defend themselves from attacks
by militant sodomites". Sure -- we can blame Jerry Falwell and Pat
Robertson for the Evangelical lie factories/money begging institutions
that they created, but Billy was the first, and the person who
inspired these men.

Billy Graham got a little introspective lately, and seems like a
moderate compared to his rabid son, Frank, but let's not forget the
unmentioned legacy of the many -- a legacy of unreason, money grubbing-
for-Jesus, and keeping a cover on their antisemitic beliefs.


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I agree with the late

I agree with the late Iceberg Slim who called Billy Graham back in the early 1970s a "Modern Day Elmer Gantry."

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He definitely 'better' than

He definitely 'better' than Falwell, Robertson, and many others...  but still...  he spent his life telling HUNDRED OF MILLIONS of people in well over 100 countries to accept Christ to be saved from eternal damnation.

So what good did he do in life?  Give people false hope?  I guess one could say that spreading ignorance is spreading bliss...  maybe that's 'good.'

In our society faith is viewed as a good thing, therefore one who spreads faith more than anyone else must be REALLY good.

 I would love to hear someone on CNN say "He spent his life doing what he believed in, but logic, science, mathematical probability, and reason suggest that he was wrong."