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Name: Billy Graham
Age: was 99
Occupation: grifter
Last Seen: probably not where he wants to be right now
Bee-otched For: being another waste of television air space
Age: was 99
Occupation: grifter
Last Seen: probably not where he wants to be right now
Bee-otched For: being another waste of television air space
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Ya know, it's sad that some of our greatest minds didn't live all that long.
Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse all died at 27.
Last year, we lost Tom Petty, Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell, at 66, 41 and 52, respectively.
But yet, Billy Graham lived to be 99, just months short of 100.
When I was young, Graham's TV crusades aired all the time, often blocking network programming. I often saw him as some angry old man screaming and yelling from a pulpit and quite simply, old and boring.
I know, some people loved the guy because he was a beacon of Jesus throughout most of the 20th Century. But, however, the dude was worth $25 million when he died last week. Did he ever hear of that story in the Bible where Jesus talked to the rich young man about giving his wealth to the poor? Um, yeah. Plus, the dude was a homophobe and even blasted Jews in a conversation with Nixon in the 70s.
Back in the 70s, Graham responded to a letter from a woman who claimed that she had feelings for another woman and he responded with a passage from 1 Corinthians 6:9 where the apostle Paul spews out that a whole bunch of people will not receive the glory of God, and the LGBT crowd was one of them. However, that verse of the Bible has long been mistranslated from the Greek texts since there was no concrete term for "homosexuality" at that time. However, oddly enough in the next verse, he mentions the greedy and that's how 'ol Billy made his bucks: begging his flock to give him money.
What's even more sad for Graham was the fact that he was a firm believer in gay conversion therapy, like Michele Bachmann (remember her?) and her husband, who did it for a living.
Ya know, it's sad that grifters like Billy Graham worked their way up in government to be the "spiritual advisor" to our presidents up until Obama. I have to wonder if that's part of the reason why we don't have universal healthcare and heavy amounts of gun violence. Maybe it's because Billy said so? Who knows.
The truth is, is that Billy Graham was almost just as bad as most of the rotten televangelists out there. Even worse is that his son, Franklin is even worse since he's more vocal than his father. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Thanks, but this world is better off than dealing with people who mix God with hate.
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Ya know, it's sad that some of our greatest minds didn't live all that long.
Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse all died at 27.
Last year, we lost Tom Petty, Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell, at 66, 41 and 52, respectively.
But yet, Billy Graham lived to be 99, just months short of 100.
When I was young, Graham's TV crusades aired all the time, often blocking network programming. I often saw him as some angry old man screaming and yelling from a pulpit and quite simply, old and boring.
I know, some people loved the guy because he was a beacon of Jesus throughout most of the 20th Century. But, however, the dude was worth $25 million when he died last week. Did he ever hear of that story in the Bible where Jesus talked to the rich young man about giving his wealth to the poor? Um, yeah. Plus, the dude was a homophobe and even blasted Jews in a conversation with Nixon in the 70s.
Back in the 70s, Graham responded to a letter from a woman who claimed that she had feelings for another woman and he responded with a passage from 1 Corinthians 6:9 where the apostle Paul spews out that a whole bunch of people will not receive the glory of God, and the LGBT crowd was one of them. However, that verse of the Bible has long been mistranslated from the Greek texts since there was no concrete term for "homosexuality" at that time. However, oddly enough in the next verse, he mentions the greedy and that's how 'ol Billy made his bucks: begging his flock to give him money.
What's even more sad for Graham was the fact that he was a firm believer in gay conversion therapy, like Michele Bachmann (remember her?) and her husband, who did it for a living.
Ya know, it's sad that grifters like Billy Graham worked their way up in government to be the "spiritual advisor" to our presidents up until Obama. I have to wonder if that's part of the reason why we don't have universal healthcare and heavy amounts of gun violence. Maybe it's because Billy said so? Who knows.
The truth is, is that Billy Graham was almost just as bad as most of the rotten televangelists out there. Even worse is that his son, Franklin is even worse since he's more vocal than his father. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Thanks, but this world is better off than dealing with people who mix God with hate.
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