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Divorce, drugs, drinking: Billy Graham’s children and their absent father
WaCompost ^ | 2/21/2018 | William Martin

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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To: bkopto

“Like her sisters, Bunny remembers being groomed for the life of wife, homemaker and mother. ‘There was never an idea of a career for us,’ she said.”

Oh, the horror!

[Note how the author throws in the word “groomed” as if to imply some incestuous or pedophilic behavior.]


101 posted on 02/21/2018 4:19:50 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: bkopto

IIRC a while back Billy Graham was at some rally for the Clintons and endorsed them. Well our reaction here at FR was hardly charitable to say the least. If any lib brings Graham up just give them that tidbit after they have trashed Billy. As for Billy may he RIP.


102 posted on 02/21/2018 4:22:46 PM PST by xp38
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To: pgkdan
"Wondered how long it would take..."

There's no telling how long this piece has been setting in the file. All they had to do was fill in the date.

103 posted on 02/21/2018 4:25:58 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: bkopto

BG was a truly holy man. Shame on them!


104 posted on 02/21/2018 4:59:13 PM PST by Doche2X2
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To: lgjhn23

I will always be reserved and patient thus not provoked by the forces on the left that want reaction. My cards have always been on the table. I know the left better than they think they know themselves. One day...


105 posted on 02/21/2018 5:00:36 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: bkopto

They got this filth out that quick? They must have had it ready. What a bunch of sickos.


106 posted on 02/21/2018 5:46:33 PM PST by goldendelicious
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To: bkopto

I don’t think it was that bad if a story.

It highlights Graham’s love towards his kids, and shows their love for him.

Ed


107 posted on 02/21/2018 5:50:40 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: bkopto

Dear Washington Post

You swine. You vulgar little maggot. Don’t you know that you are pathetic? You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, I’ll bet you couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won’t go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you.

You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you. You are a bloody nardless newbie twit protohominid chromosomally aberrant caricature of a coprophagic cloacal parasitic pond scum and I wish you would go away.

You’re a putrescence mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.

You are a bleating fool, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done.

I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformation. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?

If you aren’t an idiot, you made a world-class effort at simulating one. Try to edit your writing of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.

You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.
You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You’re a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won’t have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.

And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?

You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper.

On a good day you’re a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.

I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I’m sorry. I can’t go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don’t have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh.

The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didn’t really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us “normal” people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are “challenged” persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn’t have been “right”. Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.

P.S.: You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal, fascistic, bigoted, racist, sexist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, byzantine, conspiratorial, satanic, fraudulent, libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic, fundamentalist, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased, suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dystopic, stifling, uncaring, plantigrade, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious, secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, arassive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, clueless, and generally Not Good.

I Hope This Helps...


108 posted on 02/21/2018 6:03:34 PM PST by Datom (Still runnin' "Against the Wind.")
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To: bkopto
This was posted on facebook by my 1st cousin, Ricky Skaggs. Unlike the author of this stupid article from the Washington Post, Ricky truly knew Billy Graham for many years as he toured with him regularly.

I was up early this morning having my prayer time and Bible reading when I heard the news of Dr. Graham’s passing. The first thing I did was to thank God for sending Billy Graham into this world. My youngest daughter Molly gave her life to Jesus watching him on TV during one of his Crusades. It’s a story of millions of people just like Molly that came to Christ listening to Dr. Graham’s simple message of God’s love and forgiveness. There has never been an evangelist in our lifetime that has had the Christian integrity in ministry that Dr. Graham had. It was because he lived his life intentionally to honor Christ. He had righteous Godly men around him all the time, praying for him and praying with him everyday. He set up safeguards for his life as a husband, a father, and his life as a minister of the gospel. His ministry reflected his personal life and his personal life reflected his ministry.

What a concept! He was above reproach, and he lived there always, because he never wanted to give anyone the slightest hint that he wasn’t who he said he was. His desire first and foremost was to honor the Lord Jesus Christ with his whole heart. He knew who he was and he knew Whose he was. He knew he was a beloved son, yet calling himself a sinner. Hard to imagine, but humility will do that to you. He believed the words of John The Baptist, when John said of Jesus, “He must increase and I must decrease”, great words to live by. I’m so thankful that I got know Dr. Graham and do some of his crusades. The first one I did was in Columbus, Ohio at a baseball field. I was up on stage singing some songs and it was pouring down the rain, big sheets of rain. I thought, all these people will go home, no one could sit through this storm, but no one left, some had umbrellas but most of them didn’t. Then all of a sudden I looked and they were bringing Dr. Graham toward the stage in a covered golf cart, it stopped raining, it completely stopped. I knew then the favor of the Lord was on this man. I’m so thankful for the friendships I’ve made with the Graham family. Franklin is one of my dearest friends. I’m thankful that they have allowed me and my family to come visit Dr. Graham and sing some songs, eat a hotdog, and pray with him at his home in Montreat,NC.

The scripture says “a man’s gift makes way for him, and brings him before great and mighty men.” From President Truman to President Trump, 13 Presidents, Queen Elizabeth and countless other leaders of many nations, Dr. Graham’s message has never changed. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believe in Him shall never perish but shall have everlasting life” Dr. Graham did not die, he just changed his address! Ricky Skaggs
109 posted on 02/21/2018 6:28:19 PM PST by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: tang-soo

Amen!


110 posted on 02/21/2018 6:32:10 PM PST by Ambrosia
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To: bkopto

What a crock of shit article.

Billy Graham preached 417 cruades over a 55 year career.

His biggest year was 20 crusades and least was 2 crusades.

Average of about 7.5 per year.

Graham wouldn’t have thought this way but AFAIC, the WaPo can rot in hell.


111 posted on 02/21/2018 6:48:15 PM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: bkopto

For anyone who doubted that the compost is a tool of Satan and his minions.


112 posted on 02/21/2018 7:25:58 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: bkopto
Just another article in the long tradition of articles exposing how musicians, artists, actors, and other performers road trips can affect their families while serving others ...

Oh, they don't publish articles on those people ...
113 posted on 02/21/2018 7:29:40 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: fella
There's no telling how long this piece has been setting in the file. All they had to do was fill in the date.

This is exactly what happens. The left knows how to Alinksy early and often. Good little commies.

114 posted on 02/21/2018 7:35:27 PM PST by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

If I was them I would avoid lightning storms from now on


115 posted on 02/21/2018 7:38:39 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: miss marmelstein
You’re my favorite freeper, KC.

Oh my gosh miss marmelstein, thank you so much.

I don't know what to say!

Coming from you that means more than what you may think. :)

(Real Life Hug)

116 posted on 02/22/2018 5:44:36 AM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: KC_Lion

Same back at you. I just admire your kindness and love of your country. Unlike me, lol, you are always cool, calm and nice as hell.


117 posted on 02/22/2018 5:46:32 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Datom

You’re the Texan version of John Cleese! Way to go!


118 posted on 02/22/2018 5:49:07 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: goldstategop

“So the Rev. Graham’s family wasn’t perfect?”

Not a criticism, but just a fact of life, but often preachers are not the best fathers, sometimes because their focus is on a whole congregation so the family gets short shrift. Dad was a preacher and all five of his kids have been divorced. Ditto for many of my cousins, also preachers’ kids. It must’ve been more pronounced in the Graham family since he was traveling for long periods of time.

In the end, it’s the kids who make decisions to divorce, “go wild”, or whatever. We do what we do.


119 posted on 02/22/2018 5:55:58 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: KC_Lion
WAPO also makes for great cat box liner.

__________

I'd have to buy one to use it in my cat box. Until then I'll use the local paper (which is nearly as bad as the WaPo).

120 posted on 02/22/2018 6:16:47 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Zip ties and duct tape are far more productive than pussy hats and #metoo tweets)
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