Billy Graham re: Jerry Falwell

I have never had anything except respect and admiration for Dr. Graham. And never had any respect or admiration for Dr. Falwell. But, like us all - in our brokenness and and our beloved place as God's children - Dr. Falwell did the best he could. Like all of us - he held both reasonable and unreasonable positions. He was obsessed with Bill Clinton and Hilary Clinton and more than once made crude jokes about their daughter - who was very young at the time. He also realized that his rhetoric at times was harmful and apologized for that rhetoric. He was - in short - like anyone who is a Christian - a "practicing" Christian - it takes a lot of practice and sometimes we get it right and sometimes we get it wrong. He had a vision of what it could look like if only...... - just like all of us. Perhaps his life in Christ is one that we must examine like a mirror. We can have moments of truly understanding what it is to be a child of God and others when our need to accuse and condemn comes out. He was no more evil than I and probably a better person than I'll ever be in some respects, but his life was as filled with paradox and contradiction as mine. I know he is with God because I believe in a merciful God and one who uses each of us as we are.

One of my prayers in life is to stay quiet long enough for God to select my words - Billy Graham is a master example of this, and it always encourages me when I see it in action, as with this quote.

How interesting curiouser and curiouser, You may want to look at an abortion for the true meaning of malevolent. You may want to try to understand that taxation has taken on Marxist communist incarnation to the point where no family can ever own thier own home or property. There are malevolant and indeed satanic forces never fasting from politics. Jerry Falwell was not in that camp. Falwell just presented the Gospel undefiled, unedited (unperverted) and not re-written for the Liberal-Progressive agenda to subvert and debauch the entire western world. Falwell failed only in that he couldn't beat the liberal press.

I think that Falwell's passing is just the Lord pulling back His power of protection and letting the people "come out" and take possession of those that have this fate in their own hands. Um, no...I think Falwell's passing is more likely just the result of one overflowing plate too many of bacon, sausage and overflowing pile of fried eggs 'n cheese too many for Falwell's ticker. Oh, and thanks again for sharing Donny.