Thursday, 22 February 2018

Billy Graham, evangelist pastor and counselor to presidents, dead at age 99

quote [ Evangelist Pastor Billy Graham, who boasted a career of more than 70 years and was one of the most admired men of the past century, has died at age 99, according to church sources. ]

Do-do doot, doot, doot... Another one bites the dust!
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[by JWWargo@4:31amGMT]

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Bruceski said @ 4:48am GMT on 22nd Feb [Score:1 Underrated]
Hated Catholics, thought AIDS was a punishment from God, convinced Nixon there was a Jewish conspiracy...

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
King Of The Hill said @ 3:52pm GMT on 22nd Feb [Score:1 Good]
Yet he played a role in south africa ending its practice of apartheid.

Imperfect? Yes, but he should be recognized for his positives as well. Something he did/say 40+ years ago in the context of our culture then and the era should not malign the man perpetually. Thomas Jefferson owned slaves and all.

foobar said @ 5:34pm GMT on 22nd Feb [Score:1 Funsightful]
Thomas Jefferson isn't, or at least shouldn't be, remembered fondly. He was a slave owner and traitor who took part in a bloody civil war that's plunged your nation into ruin that you still haven't recovered from. You don't even have Responsible Government or a functioning Parliament.
King Of The Hill said @ 6:32pm GMT on 22nd Feb
Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd president of the United States and died in 1809.

He wasn't alive for the civil war having died 50+ years earlier.

Not sure what brain cells short circuited on you.
foobar said @ 6:50pm GMT on 22nd Feb
Your first civil war, not your second.
King Of The Hill said @ 7:21pm GMT on 22nd Feb
You are trying to be witty... But technically, that was a revolution. There was no country to split.

I thought you were German? Or that you were Canadian?
foobar said @ 7:30pm GMT on 22nd Feb
I'm not sure what you think a revolution is.

I'm Canadian.
Ankylosaur said @ 7:56pm GMT on 22nd Feb [Score:1 Funny]
It was the War of British Aggression! They put tacks in our tea!
King Of The Hill said @ 10:58pm GMT on 22nd Feb
You British Canadian or French Canadian?
foobar said @ 7:09am GMT on 23rd Feb
I am a meat popsicle Canadian.
King Of The Hill said @ 11:01pm GMT on 22nd Feb
By the way... You know you can thank the U.S. for your independence from Britain?

Think about that before you go all keyboard angry at me.
shiftace said @ 5:26am GMT on 23rd Feb
The interweb says that Canada did not have Independence until they asked nicely and the Canada Act 1982 was pass.
King Of The Hill said @ 6:53am GMT on 23rd Feb
Nah... Canada was unified by Britain in order to make them stronger. Britain and the canadian part of the British empire had a very real fear of the U.S. taking them over. True story.
foobar said @ 7:09am GMT on 23rd Feb
Well, you did try, and that's why you had to paint your capitol building white after we torched it.
foobar said @ 7:07am GMT on 23rd Feb [Score:-1 Flamebait]
filtered comment under your threshold
coffeejoejava said @ 12:56am GMT on 23rd Feb
I am guessing from your remarks you are not from the U.S. In that case SHUT THE FUCK UP! you are a moron!!
King Of The Hill said @ 6:52am GMT on 23rd Feb [Score:1 Classy Pr0n]
He can hold his own and has for years here. No need to be a dick.
Jack Blue said @ 6:54am GMT on 22nd Feb
"...missed by christians and all religions." seemed a bit hyperbole for me. Could have been that the great orange twittermachine was using allcaps as well.
4321 said[1] @ 12:12pm GMT on 22nd Feb
Hated Catholics?

Horse shit.

"In 1950 evangelicals and Catholics eyes each other with deep suspicion. Most evangelicals felt that Catholicism was sub-Christian at best, and many believed that it was not Christian at all." Graham risked a great deal with his core constituency when he began building bridges between evangelicals and Catholics. This began in earnest soon after his 1957 crusade in New York City, at Madison Square Garden, the first time he preached on national television, when local priests warned parishioners against attending. Soon, Graham was reaching out to prominent Catholics in every city as he prepared a crusade, to stand with him as representatives of the Christian faith.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-m-sweeney/billy-graham-catholics-_b_6100092.html

When asked by a reporter, what he'd do if invited by the pope to preach at St. Peter's, he replied "I would gladly and humbly accept...and study for about a year in preparing."
Morris Forgot his Password said @ 3:24pm GMT on 22nd Feb
Maybe didn't hate catholics per se, just their religion, church and leaders. They were fine people once they repented of their idolatry and turned from the whore of babylon, which is the pope in rome...

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/billy-graham/graham-and-jews.html
4321 said @ 3:40pm GMT on 22nd Feb

Perhaps I am missing something.
I don't see evidence in your link to support your contention that Billy Graham, "hated the catholic religion, church and leaders."

discolemonade2.0 said @ 7:52am GMT on 23rd Feb
Pat robertson next pleaseeee?

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