Good Night, Sweet Prince....

2/21/2018 8:30:46 AM

GNSP

2/21/2018 9:13:02 AM

gnsp

2/21/2018 9:18:21 AM

GNSP

2/21/2018 9:48:21 AM

GNSP

2/21/2018 10:17:09 AM

More snake-oil to sell for Robertson, Osteen and others!

2/21/2018 10:27:32 AM

GNSP

2/21/2018 10:36:40 AM

GNSP

2/21/2018 10:41:24 AM

he wasn't already dead?

2/21/2018 11:46:54 AM

2/21/2018 12:01:22 PM

SUPA STAH BILLAY GRAHAM!

2/21/2018 12:22:03 PM

2/21/2018 12:22:15 PM

GNSP

2/21/2018 12:35:41 PM

2/21/2018 12:52:15 PM

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""News of Billy Graham's death is 'fake news.' He's more alive than ever!" former Republican presidential candidates and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee tweeted. "The life he now lives will never end. THAT was his message. If not true, his entire life was a tragedy. It wasn't.""

2/21/2018 3:24:53 PM

burn in hell

2/21/2018 3:26:27 PM

Bullet beat me to the pic

2/21/2018 4:29:20 PM

^^

2/21/2018 5:20:58 PM

do y'all think the bad he did outweighed the good?

2/21/2018 5:34:37 PM

My first thought was "great".. but I don't really know who he was or why I thought that. I'm assuming he's some sort of racist, sexist, etc. But he was 99 so.. kinda goes with the territory

[Edited on February 21, 2018 at 6:44 PM. Reason : great that he's dead..]

2/21/2018 6:44:29 PM

to be honest I thought he was already dead.

2/21/2018 7:17:47 PM

I think his son Franlkin is more of the right wing hatemonger of the family, while Billy was more of a peace an love type of dude, but I can't say for sure.

2/21/2018 11:42:55 PM

Apparently Billy was a vicious anti-semite

2/22/2018 12:05:42 AM

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"do y'all think the bad he did outweighed the good?"

I bet the Wu-Tang doesn't think so

2/22/2018 9:17:54 AM

^^
anti-semetic, anti-feminist, anti-lgbt, anti-abortion, pro-war

2/22/2018 12:05:43 PM

anti-racism

2/22/2018 4:04:44 PM

yeah he did some good there. still wouldn't say he's anywhere near net positive.

2/22/2018 4:13:20 PM

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"anti-semetic, anti-feminist, anti-lgbt, anti-abortion, pro-war"

looks like the good outweighed the bad 3-2

2/22/2018 5:20:49 PM

2/22/2018 5:50:10 PM

GNSP

2/22/2018 6:25:54 PM

he should burn in hell for being anti-abortion...

2/22/2018 8:39:35 PM

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/2/22/17037484/billy-graham-religious-leader-evangelical-america

2/22/2018 11:03:29 PM

a complicated human, like most humans

2/22/2018 11:17:01 PM

Burn in hell?

Damn y'all nerds are harsh AF.

That must mean you believe in hell tho right?

2/22/2018 11:19:34 PM

i mean that was hyperbole but billy graham was not a good person. i'm sure he thought he was.

https://www.them.us/story/billy-graham-made-queer-lives-hell-on-earth

[Edited on February 22, 2018 at 11:22 PM. Reason : .]

2/22/2018 11:20:52 PM

GNSP

2/22/2018 11:30:13 PM

he was a decent man who had problematic and sometimes awful views (by today’s standards)

much like nearly every religious figure from the 20th century

2/22/2018 11:30:56 PM

Gay conversion is still promoted on his website.

2/22/2018 11:35:21 PM

I, too, only focus on the faults of people

2/22/2018 11:37:37 PM

you think he has been editor-at-large of that site for the past 10+ years?

you aware of his son?

2/22/2018 11:38:00 PM

i think billy graham was generally a good dude

i think his son franklin is a useless, disgusting, hypocritical douchebag

2/23/2018 12:12:41 AM

its a metric that’s not easily calculated, but from my personal experience, as a NC native who (thankfully) wasn’t brought up religious, and comes from a family of very religious people, their views on homosexuality didn’t change until this decade

they for damn sure aren’t horrible people due to their earlier views

for a very obvious reason, Billy Graham wasn’t given that opportunity to evolve like a lot of fans of his were

[Edited on February 23, 2018 at 12:40 AM. Reason : .]

2/23/2018 12:37:14 AM

TT, why are you so defensive of Billy?

2/23/2018 9:38:14 AM

For once I agree with TGL.

Not sure why there is so much hate for the man. Sure he had views and values that you don't agree with, but geez, the man marched with MLK for Christ's sake.

Just because he was against homosexuality, there's no way, in your eyes, that the good he did outweighs the bad?

^Why are you so against him?

[Edited on February 23, 2018 at 10:06 AM. Reason : da]

2/23/2018 10:06:03 AM

MLK didn't like the homosex so fuck him too. Take his holiday away as he was obviously a shitty person.

2/23/2018 8:06:37 PM

RIP

2/26/2018 7:58:50 AM

Seriously 0 posts from 8 am to 3 pm today? FACKKK

2/26/2018 2:38:27 PM

https://www.indyweek.com/news/archives/2018/02/27/billy-graham-franklin-graham-and-the-selling-of-the-evangelical-soul

2/27/2018 9:30:35 AM

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/special-reports/billy-graham-life/article202322279.html

2/27/2018 9:59:30 AM

^WTF did they just post? That is fucking hilarious. I am copying it before it gets edited:

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"Former President Bill Clinton will visit Charlotte on Tuesday to pay his final respects to Billy Graham, the evangelist and advisor to presidents who died Wednesday at age 99.Hillary Clinton, the former First Lady and secretary of state, is not expected to accompany her husband.Clinton will be the second former president in two days to arrive at the Billy Graham Library to honor Graham, who is lying in repose at his boyhood home. He’ll be there through Tuesday at 10 p.m.On Monday, former President George W. Bush and wife Laura were escorted to the closed wooden casket by Graham’s son, Franklin, who is also an evangelist.President Donald Trump will be in Charlotte on Friday for Graham’s funeral service. Trump’s immediate predecessor, former President Barack Obama, does not plan to attend the service, the Associated Press reported. The office of former president Jimmy Carter has not announced plans to visit Charlotte this week. I’m 99 percent sure HW has said he’s not coming. Bush Jr. mentioned that also in his speech yesterday. Graham’s body will lie in honor in the Capitol rotunda on Wednesday and Thursday. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will lead a memorial service once Graham’s casket arrives, the Washington Post has reported.Clinton was among the long line of U.S. presidents, starting with President Harry Truman, that Graham advised. The evangelist took part in both of Clinton’s presidential inaugurations, giving the invocation in 1993 and a prayer in 1997.In 1995, Graham and then-President Clinton both went to Oklahoma City to try to soothe the nation’s pain after 168 people were killed in the bombing of a federal building by home-grown terrorists.During Clinton’s two terms, Graham visited the White House, sent encouraging letters to the Clintons, acted as an emissary during tense times with North Korea, and even counseled the First Lady in the wake of her husband’s sexual encounter in the Oval Office with intern Monica Lewinsky.In 2007, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton told ABC News anchor Charles Gibson that she reached out to Graham after the 1998 scandal.“He was someone who could understand both Bill and me, and there aren’t many who can,” she said of Graham. “Forgiveness is probably the hardest challenge that any of us face, but when you’re faced with having to do it yourself, especially when it’s playing out in front of the world, it is hard.”Clinton, who stayed with her husband after the sex scandal, said Graham gave her confidence “that what I was doing, no matter what the rest of the world thought, was right. Right for me, right for my family and right for the country. And I will never forget that.”Maybe mention that Hillary hasn’t announced plans to come to Charlotte this week. When Bill Clinton has talked about Graham over the years, it’s usually been about how he became a fan of the evangelist when the future president was a kid in Arkansas. The young Clinton was so taken with Graham’s refusal to bow to pressure from southern segregationists in the 1950s, according to one report, that he started sending part of his allowance to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.In 2005, when Clinton spoke at Graham’s last crusade, in New York, he recalled attending another one in Little Rock in 1959. He told the crowd how much it affected him seeing blacks and whites worshiping – and answering the altar call – together. “I was just a little boy and I never forgot it,” Clinton said. “And I’ve loved him ever since.”Two years later, when Clinton came to Charlotte for the dedication of the Billy Graham Library, he returned to that time in the life of the South.“The White Citizens Council in Little Rock tried to convince, even to pressure, Billy Graham and all of his people to preach to a segregated audience.... And he told them if they insisted on that, he would cancel the crusade and tell the whole world why,” Clinton said as the then-elderly Graham sat nearby. “Tens of thousands of black and white Christians there together in a football stadium. And when he issued the call at the end of this message, thousands came down holding hands, arm-in-arm crying. It was the beginning of the end of the old South in my home state.”Tim Funk: 704-358-5703, @timfunk"

2/27/2018 10:16:28 AM