[...Anyone who calls himself an "evangelical Christian" who receives, and basks in, so much fawning adulation by the Drive By Media is almost automatically suspect in my book...]
Leave out the basking part and ask yourself where does that
leave Billy Graham? The media seem to love him as well.
He was anything but popular with the media when he was in his heyday, and his son Franklin, who has taken over the ministry, is almost as demonized by the left as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are. If Billy Graham had been as popular with the press in his prime as Rick Warren is now, I'd be suspicious of him. I admit it's not entirely fair, but the media today is so thoroughly corrupt and dishonest and leftist agenda-driven that I can't help but suspect anything they approve of.
I have until now held my tongue on the Warren threads. I was willing to give the man the benefit of the doubt. But the more I see him and the more I learn about him, the less I like what I see.
Billy has made some troubling statements over the years as well.
Has anyone read his book? What's it like?? I haven't read it yet - wonder if I'm going to.
I wouldn't say that the media *fawned* all over Billy Graham; it seems to me more like he was just so wildly popular that they weren't in much of a position to criticize him much without making themselves look bad. Plus, he must have been a man of great integrity, or they would have gone after him for that, as well. They just didn't have anything to pin on him.