Posted on 02/27/2018 5:32:25 AM PST by Kaslin
Graham is now in a perfect place.
Bit cowardly. George Will no doubt felt this way about Graham for a long time. The decent thing to do was to publish his screed when Graham was able to respond. Of course if Will had written this 15 years ago , it would have ended his income as a “conservative writer and commentator”. BTW this is not the same National Review that Bill Buckley founded.
The sermon series at church has been about Exodus. Exodus 3 was last week.
It was about how massively, ineffably powerful God is, yet he came down to us.
One of the points used was how John pointed out that our best efforts are like filthy rags in the sight of God. I thought about Billy Graham at that moment and realized that his life, and the life of the saints, reminds us that it comes down to grace.
We don’t deserve salvation, but we get it anyway. Grace. Billy Graham’s message was simple, for a broken people. How do you criticize that.
Will fancy’s himself as an expert historian, among other things... As in the 2016 election, wrong side of history once again.
He has cemented his position as ABC’s “go to” “conservative.”
Of no earthly good, he puts the “faux” in “faux conservative.”
Hell is full of people just like George Will, he will fit right in.
Will is an avowed atheist, so his attack on Graham is understandable from a spiritual standpoint. However, this is one of the never-Trumper so-called conservatives who gave a pass to Hillary Clinton. Was his spiritual fear of Graham so great that it
overcame his residual conservative urge to be kind to an old man who was a truly remarkable figure in American religious history?
But Will still likes to dress up as a 80s conservative because it keeps the checks flowing in.
A deeply principled conservative that had almost no problem with the incoherent, non-conservate approach by GHW Bush, GW Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, etc.
Years ago, when I heard that fool doesn’t like blue jeans, I knew he was no good.
Hey, it’s a living. ;)
I think blue jeans are bad form for a guy over 40, fine for women of any age. Black jeans are always aok.
Amen to that.
In the 80s, I dearly looked forward to getting my copy of National Review. Haven’t subscribed in years, though. And online, National Review is like jumping in a cesspool of hate for anything or anyone who isn’t a NE Pseudo-Conservative Snob.
No, but the author was stating that the sort of hateful screed that Will wrote was something one would expect to see in the New York Times or Washington Post, not in an alleged conservative magazine. Will's article made it look like Graham was an evil demagogue. Whether one was a devoted follower of Graham or not, I do not see how one can see him in anything but an over all positive light, unless one is an anti-religion leftist zealot. The point of the article is that Will and National Review are certainly not conservative any longer.
I would consider this to be a valid point, although it is mixed in with a bunch of garbage that is not. It really is true of the whole revival format popularized by Charles Finney, which tends to produce results that area mile wide and an inch deep.
George Will, like Paul Mulching and Billy Crystal, is an arrogant elitist RINO. And now he has shown is PERSONALLY a despicable human being. He would never speak ill of Obama or some other liberal carrion ever croaked.
Billy Graham teamed with local churches to provide support and teaching after the revival was over. He was NOT a proponent of just walking down the aisle. Not that George Will would know or care.
Ironically, like Lucifer himself, Will’s motive are self evident.....the need for attention. Write an article like this and you’re going to get lots of attention. Narcissism is probably the one common attribute the LEFT, the GOPelites, and the Godless all have in common.
It’s why people like the Bushes, George Will, Bill Kristol, Mitt Romney, all have been on this 18 month Trump temper Tantrum. Nobody give them any attention anymore. They are irrelevant. But they aren’t giving up to stay relevant.
And more ironic........The greatest preacher of the gospel , of the blood, of the cross, of the Savior himself who warned us about this pride, this narcissism, .....the greatest preacher I have ever heard.......he had ZERO need for Attention. All he needed was his Lord and his Savior. The world is a lonelier place today with Billy Graham. And I don’t seen anyone like him around anymore........and that’s very sad and tragic for the young people of today.
Billy Graham had a very strong deist/Theistic/Universal streak.
He is on record saying things that simply do not align themselves with conservative Christian theology.
I am not judging Billy Graham… but to deny that he has said things that are totally wrong according to Scripture is simply wanting to looked the other way.
There easy to find online...but here is one for anyone that wants to take a look.
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