Billy Graham: Man of Principle

[cthulu2016]

I am rather disgusted that Billy Graham, who has unfortunately been the face of Christianity in America for about 40-50 years, chose getting behind a white heretic over a black Christian.

Oh, and then immediately scrubbing his web-site of the warning that we "should avoid any involvement" with the core principles of the man he just tacitly endorsed for President, and that Mitt Romney is in the same category as a Scientologist!

Who endorses someone from a cult hierarchy for President? I'm an atheist so I am not too worried about quasi-christian heresy cults. The buzz on Billy Graham was, however, that he wasn't an atheist. If Billy Graham is going to endorse a man he considers a HERETIC then what was the last 50 years of "bible-believing" bullshit for?

What is a cult?

A cult is any group which teaches doctrines or beliefs that deviate from the biblical message of the Christian faith. It is very important that we recognize cults and avoid any involvement with them. Cults often teach some Christian truth mixed with error, which may be difficult to detect.

There are some features common to most cults:

• They do not adhere solely to the sixty-six books of the Bible as the inspired Word of God. They add their "special revelations" to the Bible and view them as equally authoritative.

• They do not accept that our relationship to Jesus Christ is a reality "by grace through faith" alone, but promote instead a salvation by works.

• They do not give Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God, full recognition as the second Person of the Trinity, composed of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Some of these groups are Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, the Unification Church, Unitarians, Spiritists, Scientologists, and others.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100605052727/http://www.billygraham.org/articlepage.asp?ArticleID=2072

On Tuesday, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association confirmed that page has recently been removed from the site.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/16/billy-grahams-group-removes-mormon-cult-reference-from-website-after-romney-meeting/

[Barbara2423]

1. Money Talks

The sheets were lifted off several white ministers when the president ran in 2008.

[kelliekat44]

6. BG is part of the white American pastor-club including pRobertson who preach and plunder

African lands and riches through bargains made in hell with the corrupt leaders of African countries, making sure that none of the wealth is shared with the suffering people. I was surprised when I learned from a visiting Nigerian the kinds of deals the BG and hian s enterprises have made with Nigerian corrupt officials. It seems that a lot of "missionary" work was a cover for money and business deals where Pat Robertson and Billy were concerned. This stuff has been going on for decades.

[hrmjustin]

2. I don't think he will get votes because of this guy.

[RomneyLies]

3. Billy Graham, racist piece of shit motherfucker

Yeah. I said it.

[Arugula Latte]

5. That asshole has had a free ride for decades.

He disgusts me. I hope he's not around next election.

[MotherPetrie]

7. Bingo

[Dawson Leery]

8. Billy Graham's kind have caused irreversable harm to this world.

[Arugula Latte]

17. Agree completely.

Charlatans and snake oil salesmen doing great damage, all of them.

[truebluegreen]

4. Miserable hypocrite.

I remember watching him on the TV when I was a child. This was when there were only 3 stations...it seemed harmless at the time, he didn't seem so creepy; maybe he was more mainstream...not so much now! gah.

Regardless, it didn't take.

[russspeakeasy]

9. He is a political whore and sold his soul years ago.

Rot in hell billy....and by the way billy; the devil hates it when you are late. right now, you are 25 years overdue.

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. Try 60 years

his whole "spiritual adviser to presidents" thing started with Ike.

[cthulu2016]

16. good to know

[struggle4progress]

11. "You'll go to hell if you vote for the Mormon! unless, of course, he's running against a black guy!"

[1620rock]

12. Fake religious grifter, his psycho son is even worse...makes me wish there was a Hell.

[Historic NY]

13. Wonder how much that cost.

[haele]

14. Franklin's the one running the show now -

And he considers himself even holier - especially when it comes to the amount of money that apparently comes from God for being so favored and "holy".

I'm pretty sure that even though they mouth the name of Christ and claim him as their redeemer, they're really worshiping Mammon, a deity that welcomes "all" and does not seem to care what it is called, so long as they do whatever they need to get closer to it and sacrifice their humanity and fellow humans to the pursuit of it.

Haele

[xfundy]

15. I've always considered money-grubbing preachers as

beyond atheists, in that their beliefs and what they preach precisely mirror their own prophet motive and nothing else from a "man of peace." Salvation = another yacht, another plane, another trip to diddle underaged children.

[L0oniX]

18. Accepted the way you are ...now pay your fucking tithes!

[AndrewP]

19. Yep

Another money grabbing "man of god"

[byeya]

20. Billy loves all demoninations: His favorite is the $100 bill