Posted on 03/05/2018 9:51:42 AM PST by Kaslin
George Will strikes me as an opportunist who marketed himself as a “reasonable token conservative” so magazines could say they aired both sides. It was a good gig until someone who might actually do some conservative things got into office. Then he was forced to disavow everything he ever said he stood for because it was all lies and the truth is he never wanted that stuff happen and now has to fight to make sure it doesn’t. Attacking Billy Graham is just an aftershock of his mask dropping, he inadvertently got carried away and attacked someone other than Trump when he should have pretended to respect him. But it does demonstrate that Will’s newfound leftist ranting isn’t just about disliking Trump’s style. Its who Will really is.
“According to a recent Pew Forum survey, 19 percent of conservatives are unaffiliated with any particular religion, and 14 percent of atheists identify as conservative.”
And some percent of men identify as women.
Some percent of women identify as men.
And some percent of men are “married to men.”
All of this means . . . absolutely nothing.
An atheist can not be a conservative. He/she might want to identify as a conservative - perhaps have someone else think they are conservative.
Reports of “conservative atheists” are just disoriented tales.
Will’s fellow atheists must take great comfort in his repudiation of Billy Graham’s evangelising, I guess. To me, Will sounds like a bitter fool.
You’re talking to one.
Will does not need to try hard to be recognized for what he is. He is a natural. And egotist, and elitist, and filled with the sin of envy for what Mr Graham accomplished over his lifetime. George just cannot measure up and he is deeply trouble by his personal failure.
Just go away George.
As the critique of Will's article notes, King is the only American to have his very own national holiday. But he was favorably regarded by many Americans during his own lifetime as well. King's popularity may not have been as widespread as Graham's, but only because King strongly took sides in what were a contentious, secular political issues of the day. And not just civil rights and integration -- which were arguably moral issues -- but also Vietnam, nuclear disarmament, foreign policy, and the expansion of the welfare state.
Karol Józef Wojtyła was so popular in the Roman Catholic Church during his lifetime that the Papal Conclave of cardinal bishops made him Pope John Paul II. Globally, Pope John Paul II was far more popular the Graham could ever hope to be. And not just among Catholics.
Amazing really amazing how Donald Trump has outed just about everyone in this country who gave us a false message.
the democrats are naked for once, fully exposed on the issues that don’t jive with Americans,
And NRO, they were outed real early in the campaign. I haven’t read an article from them in almost two years, except for Hansen.
And of course, other GOP.
I think because of this, the midterms will see the republicans gain seats, not lose them.
Did George Will escape from the home again?
George Will has become a cranky old man. I don’t pay much attention to him anymore.
I don’t think that Mr. Wills has to try that hard. He seems quite able to be one by simply opening his mouth.
Two hundred years from now, by little footnotes to nonsensical records of baseball history, George Will may have his place on a page.
Which might be considered more consequential?
One of Will’s party tricks is to base an entire column on a quote (and to imply that he is a privileged insider) or obscure anecdote.
Graham was not a SJW and thank God for that but his staunch opposition to racial segregation in the early days of his revivals is hardly anecdotal and hardly inconsequential.
Will is the person who declared that because we have 3,400 odd counties in the US that each county should absorb an equal number of Latin American refugee children.
He’s bitter and twisted now. He’s as swampy as Jennifer Rubin. Probably always was.
He continues to push the envelope.
Both he and that disgusting Kristol. They need to be put on a one-way trip to......anywhere but here........;)
He has one part of an ass, perfected!
George Will thought Rev. Graham should have been more political...? Billy Graham had one party, God The Father.
Thankfully, we are not all going to the same place when we die.
Rev. Graham was a giant among men, humble, gentle and Godly.
National Review is a NeoCon organ these days. No one should be surprised by this.
As it was written, of the one Billy Graham followed, “ And the high Priests and Scribes sought how they might kill him: for they feared the people.” and “The high Priests also and Scribes stood forth and accused him vehemently.”
“They” still fear the people, and they still lash out at those who follow Him.
Well, He is!
The ONLY quotable thing attributed to Niebuhr is the “Serenity Prayer”.
And he probably plagiarized THAT from an AA Meeting. LOL./s
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