Graham Says NYC Revival Probably His Last

[deadparrot]

UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Now 86 and in frail health, the Rev. Billy Graham is all but certain that his revival meeting in New York City next week will be the last he ever leads in the United States — and probably the last that the famed evangelist does anywhere.

"In my mind, it is," he said during an interview with The Associated Press at a Long Island hotel where he's resting up for the June 24-26 event.

"I wouldn't like to say 'never,'" Graham added with a chuckle. "Never is a bad word."

The elder statesman of the evangelical movement is soft of voice those days, but alert, amiable as ever, and appears in conversation to be bearing up well under a host of ailments. He's brought his simple but powerful message of salvation through Christ to over 210 million people in 185 countries — and is still in demand.

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[CottonBear]

1. Good. I, for one, won't miss him at all. n/t

[pokercat999]

16. Won't be long before he finds out if he has been right or

wasting his breath. I'm betting on the latter.

[Felix Mala]

2. Couldn't Jesus just whisk him off to Heaven while they go live?

Think of the converts!

[unhappycamper]

3. One radical cleric going down, but many more are out there

with their hands up or out.

[rkc3]

4. And the ones in the wing are even crazier than the current ones.

[bmbmd]

5. I stand with Billy Graham.

His ministry has been an important part of American heritage for decades. Franklin, on the other hand, is a banging gong, a bucket of bones, and empty vessel. I wish Reverend Graham the best in his remaining days-peace, health, and joy.

[AlinPA]

6. His son is a hater. An evangelical, he called Islam an evil religion. n/

[Media_Lies_Daily]

12. Maybe you never heard what he had to say on the Nixon tapes....

Billy Graham and the Jews
<http://suppressednews.com/newsitems/national/EpEVEAkkEkRQunEXsk.html>

QUOTE:

As recounted in the Chicago Tribune Nixon and Graham had just concluded a prayer breakfast and were in the midst of a 90-minute wandering conversation when the subject of the Jewish influence in the media came up.

"This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain," Graham said, according to the article in the Tribune.

"You believe that," Nixon asked.

"Yes, sir," Graham answered.

"Oh, boy," said Nixon. "So do I. I can't say that but I believe it."

"No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something," Graham concluded.

Looks to me like Graham's son didn't fall very far from the tree.

[leesa]

15. Right. That heritage that is Jew hatin' and suggesting ways to murder

a million or so Cambodians and Vietnamese.

The world is a much better place without these charlatans.

[ollie79]

20. Ditto

Despite some of his weaknesses he is and was a man of strong faith. Grace and Peace to the Rev.

[izzie]

7. Good he has been around with it enough.

He should have replayed them to him self and maybe he would have taught us more.Now that man is a really professional do good er.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. He said the same thing when he was

here in my city a few years ago.

He will die on the pulpit. I don't believe he will ever retire.

[Shoeempress]

9. Praise the lord

[Benhurst]

10. Bye, bye. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.

Was there ever a war he didn't support or a corrupt Republican president he didn't pal around with?

Good riddance.

[IndianaGreen]

11. Billy Graham started out as a supporter of McCarthism

and he spent most of his life kissing the asses of politicians. Not once did Graham ever condemn segregation or apartheid!

Like we say in Puerto Rico, adios pato!

[TankLV]

13. My thoughts and wishes, exactly.

nt

[leesa]

14. Good. One less hateful racist preaching.

[mitchum]

17. That fucker has retired more times than David Bowie and Frank Sinatra...

combined.
Just because Graham is not as seemingly bad as those who followed in his wake, don't be fooled into thinking he is anything more than another right-wing grifter.

[trotsky]

18. How many "revivals" will the corpse of Christianity get...

before it's finally declared brain-dead?

[onager]

19. Oh, about this many...

"Humanity will be free only when the last king is strangled with the guts of the last priest."--Denis Diderot

Billy Graham is just as big a phony and hypocrite as Swaggart or any of the others. He's just better at hiding it.

As another poster said upthread, Graham has always been a 'ho for political power. He got his start back in the late Forties when the Hearst press decided he made a good poster boy for anti-Commie American Xianity. They got the ball rolling with a story about him converting a professional gangster, which may or may not have been true.

There's an excellent documentary that talks about how Graham jumped the shark when he blatantly endorsed Nixon and appeared in public with the crook Graham called "a godly man." It also goes into Shrub's relationship with the Religious Reich.

The docu called "With God On Our Side." I've seen it on the Independent Film Channel, but it should be available thru Netflix etc.