Should Billy Graham statue replace Confederate in Raleigh NC?
I say No. Not a Hell No , but No
Billy like us all was complicated and full of contradictions. Witness Nixon in Knoxville a couple weeks after Kent State in 1970 when Al Gore's father was not invited.
Read Steven Miller's book on Nixon and Graham and Will D. Campbell's reservations in the 60s. Campbell has a plaza named in his honor at Ole Miss and should have monuments elsewhere. John Lewis loved Will D Campbell and Billy Gee's definitive biographer Marshall Frady adored Will Campbell.
Billy's son Franklin guest list for Billy's 95th birthday in Charlotte were Donald Trump and wife, Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch of Fox News.
See what Frye Gaillard has written about Graham, also google Randall Balmer on Billy Graham and the judgments of History.
Chowan College rcently took down Jesse Helms name off their activities center. Bill Friday the chancellor of the UNC system in the last quarter of the 20th century was aware of Helms role in the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention and the nefarious reverberations for North Carolina and the South East. He said Helms fundamentalism takeover of the Baptist seminary in the town of Wake Forest in 1987 was especially ominous.
Louisville Baptist seminary president Al Mohler told Bonhoeffer biographer Charles Marsh of UVA most folks were unaware what a key and enthusiastic role Billy had encouraging the fundamentalist takeover forces of WA Criswell where Billy's FBC Dallas membership was most of his life.
The same Criswell who told Baptist preachers in 56 in Columbia SC you wouldn't call a chigger and chiggerow, now would you.
Graham has a monument in Charlotte, the family farm barn. It is great museum for him. He is not worthy to be honored by the secular state in Raleigh.
Maybe Dean Smith, another Baptist, or George W. Truett who was born in Hayesville, but not Billy Graham.
We are all tarnished, damaged goods, but Billy doesnt make the cut.
Billy like us all was complicated and full of contradictions. Witness Nixon in Knoxville a couple weeks after Kent State in 1970 when Al Gore's father was not invited.
Read Steven Miller's book on Nixon and Graham and Will D. Campbell's reservations in the 60s. Campbell has a plaza named in his honor at Ole Miss and should have monuments elsewhere. John Lewis loved Will D Campbell and Billy Gee's definitive biographer Marshall Frady adored Will Campbell.
Billy's son Franklin guest list for Billy's 95th birthday in Charlotte were Donald Trump and wife, Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch of Fox News.
See what Frye Gaillard has written about Graham, also google Randall Balmer on Billy Graham and the judgments of History.
Chowan College rcently took down Jesse Helms name off their activities center. Bill Friday the chancellor of the UNC system in the last quarter of the 20th century was aware of Helms role in the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention and the nefarious reverberations for North Carolina and the South East. He said Helms fundamentalism takeover of the Baptist seminary in the town of Wake Forest in 1987 was especially ominous.
Louisville Baptist seminary president Al Mohler told Bonhoeffer biographer Charles Marsh of UVA most folks were unaware what a key and enthusiastic role Billy had encouraging the fundamentalist takeover forces of WA Criswell where Billy's FBC Dallas membership was most of his life.
The same Criswell who told Baptist preachers in 56 in Columbia SC you wouldn't call a chigger and chiggerow, now would you.
Graham has a monument in Charlotte, the family farm barn. It is great museum for him. He is not worthy to be honored by the secular state in Raleigh.
Maybe Dean Smith, another Baptist, or George W. Truett who was born in Hayesville, but not Billy Graham.
We are all tarnished, damaged goods, but Billy doesnt make the cut.
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