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Billy Graham

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by swingline, Feb 21, 2018.

  1. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    So you’re saying he was a sage
     
  2. Flip Wilson

    Flip Wilson Well-Known Member

    Vincent Canby, an entertainment writer for The Times, died in 2000. He got a byline in 2003 when Bob Hope died.
     
  3. Oggiedoggie

    Oggiedoggie Well-Known Member

    Billy Graham: HOF?
     
  4. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Of what? Jew-haters?
     
  5. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Won’t get in with the writers, but may on the Apostles Committee
     
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  6. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    WWE inducted him in 2003.

    (Yeah, I know. The evangelist or wrestler jokes just write themselves.)
     
  7. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    Billy Graham is dead, and we can’t get Joel Osteen on a helicopter? </denisleary>
     
  8. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Yes, he consulted with presidents, but his motivation was promoting the faith. The current generation of evangelists would be better to follow his example.
     
  9. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    Had one of our occasional "what celebrity death would make A1" talks after deadline in our shop, and Billy Graham was on the list.

    We're a hyperlocal 15K daily, but I believe we're talking to local evangelical ministers to work up a reaction story to go with his AP obituary.

    Not a huge fan of TV preachers, but Graham always seemed sincere, thoughtful and inclusive as he spoke about his faith. RIP.
     
  10. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Billy Graham seemed a cut above all the other evangelists, but all of it seems like a huge money grab to me. YMMV.

    (Moved my post over from the Politics thread.)
     
  11. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    This pretty much nails it for me. I don't doubt that he considered himself a devout Christian, and he certainly was better than the run of the mill televangelists... but he lived pretty well off his schtick.

    That said, he was a hundred times the both the preacher and the man that Franklin Graham is.
     
  12. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    I agree. Franklin appears to be politics first, then business, then religion.
     
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