Posted on 02/21/2018 1:49:31 PM PST by bkopto
Acquaintances from the early years remember that the Graham youngsters were less than models of decorum in their behavior at church and other public gatherings, but Ruth did her best to exercise a rather stern and consistent discipline at home. She claimed to have obtained some of her most effective child-rearing techniques from a dog-training manual whose directives included keeping commands simple and at a minimum, seeing to it that they were obeyed, rewarding obedience with praise and being consistent.
Three of the five Graham children have divorced. Ruth was the first. When she discovered that her husband had been engaged in a long-running affair, she was devastated. “At first I resorted to my familiar pattern of denial — covering over my hurt with spiritual platitudes. I prayed. I fasted. I forgave. I claimed Bible promises. I did all I’d been taught to do. I also hid my problems from everyone, humiliated that others — especially my family — would find out.”
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What a rotten article from a rotten writer from a rotten newspaper with a rotten owner.
Liberals love to dance on fresh graves. Despicable!
Not shocked that they did it, just aggravated that they are so classless as to do it on THE DAY OF HIS DEATH.............
I would think that even liberals would be upset at the timing of this OBVIOUS HIT PIECE.................................
I can just imagine how much “truth” the Washington Post will post on the day Bill Clinton dies.
Despicable.
This behavior is typical of LIB lunatics.
So the Rev. Graham’s family wasn’t perfect?
Perfection is for heaven. He did good deeds and preached the Word.
If people think that means he fell short, there is no man on earth who does not sin.
And above all, we should not speak ill of the dead.
Progressives just hit a new low.
They’re just owned minions of the accuser.
Good God. Can’t even wait one day?
We need to remind the compost the following: He who is without sin may cast the first stone.
His body isn't even cold yet and the long knives came out for him.
Stunning.
I had a Great Aunt who was the stereotype old woman who baked you cookies when you got home from school. She had a son (my father's cousin) who would give you the shirt off his back in a snow storm if you were his kin.
You want to know what happened to him? He died in prison serving a life sentence he got for shooting a man point blank in the head under an over-pass because over a Cocaine deal that went bad.
Famlies are complicated, mine could make for a great Maury episode.
WAPO also makes for great cat box liner.
The Graham Family has always been quite open and honest about their lack of perfection. Their stories have inspired the rest of us who likewise suffer from all human failings.
This WaPo writer needs to familiarize himself with Matthew 7:3
I refuse to click the link. We are all human. We all suffer the human condition. IMO, this is just the Compost giving the business to Conservative America, needlessly sticking their finger - again - in our eyes.
Bloody infuriating! On the day he died, they write this piece of crap - and the comments! From the usual smirking pretend-atheists who talk about a sky god and insult Christians worldwide. And some of them think the man was a televangelist! I positively loathe the left. They’ve got to be destroyed.
You’re my favorite freeper, KC.
Well, we all knew this was coming!
NPR painted him as a homophobe, a racist, and an anti-Semite.
Jack@sses.
Bunch of assholes. I for one, surrounded by friends I know, understand that shit just happens. I even had a couple close moments in my own marriage. Sometimes it happens because we screw up, and sometimes shit just happens to good people. No one is perfect. I don’t think this dirt digging is a revelation to anyone except butt hurt liberals.
Or don’t dare to challenge the validity of ones like David Hogg and other child Soros/Bloomberg plants who cry on cue and read out anti gun/NRA scripts.
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