Had enough of christianists appearing on the T&V and throwing verbal rose petals on his grave?
Are you tired of everyone proclaiming what a great and generous man he was?
(How DID he have an estate worth $25 millions anyway? Must have lived a true life of poverty, just like his lard jezuz preached)
Getting sick of how he is being elevated towards sainthood?
Is your stomach turning about how he met so many presidents, the Queen of England, and was allowed to preach in the USSR, because he was so holy and sainted?
Well, you are not alone. That is NOT the true picture of this jackass. And I apologize to jacks and asses across this flat earth for the comparison. Truth be told, he was a racist, sexist, fascist, and taught all those wrong lessons to his hideous, disgusting son.
At least one recent review of his life managed to point out some inconvenient truths:
Graham once preached that AIDS was the judgement of God. “Is AIDS a judgment of God?” he had said in Columbus, Ohio in 1993, “I could not be sure, but I think so.” Graham quickly backtracked on this one, saying that he didn’t believe that and didn’t know why he said it. Nevertheless, this dog-whistle was heard by too many.
Graham wrote a memo to President Nixon urging him to commit a war crime in Vietnam. Unlike many Christian leaders, Graham supported a very specific military strategy in the Vietnam war. He wanted Nixon to use nuclear weapons to destroy the dikes that manage flooding in North Vietnam. This plan was something Henry Kissinger dismissed as “just too much.”
Graham was anti-Semitic. Graham used the whole “I don’t believe that and have no idea why I said it” thing a few times. For example, after taped conversations revealed that Graham made anti-Semitic statements to President Nixon. Specifically, he told the president that Jews control the media, and that this was dangerous: “This stranglehold has got to be broken or this country’s going down the drain.” Nixon agreed with this, and Graham suggested that if he got elected to a second term “we might be able to do something.” Graham would later point out that he had Jewish friends.
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Some of my best friends are jewish gays, too. Honestly. Especially a couple who own an antique shop in Chicago. Their travels, tales, and topics make them a joy to listen to. Except, Billy, I frankly don’t notice nor care about their sexual preferences or their semitic background. What I do notice is how warm, empathic, friendly, smart and liberal they are.
I am relieved that there are more voices than mine complaining about the true nature of this pig. His wish was that we went back to the 1950s, with no birth control, no women’s rights, no LGBT rights, and where the word “jew” was a profanity. You can polish a turd (actually, you really can polish a turd. One of those late, great science programs proved it) but it is still full of crap.
Still, on the level of turdness, Billy could not hold a candle to his horrific son, Franklin. Now, there is a terrible piece of work. Franklin believes that his daddums was too liberal, too open to science (hah) and too committed to equal rights for all. OK, make that some, not all. OK, maybe just a few.
Billy was no hero. Billy was a very successful scam artist who got others to buy into his warped, perveted christianist ideas and ideals, no matter who got screwed in the process.
Just so you know, Mike Pence learned his ideas about women from Graham. You cannot be alone with one, unless you had previously married her. I guess the temptation would have been too great.
I normally don’t piss on the grave of people, although with trump and several GOP senators i would consume massive amounts of beer before visiting. In this case, Graham does NOT deserve praise.