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Related: About this forumRomney meets with evangelist Billy Graham
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/11/romney-meets-with-evangelist-billy-graham/Billy Graham has counseled presidents going back to Harry Truman.
October 11th, 2012
04:44 PM ET
Romney meets with evangelist Billy Graham
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor
(CNN) Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney met with evangelical icon Billy Graham for the first time on Thursday at the evangelists remote mountaintop home in North Carolina.
Romney traveled to Grahams residence in Montreat, just outside Asheville, to meet with Graham and his son Franklin Graham, a high-profile pastor in his own right.
Romney campaign spokesman Rick Gorka told reporters that Romney met with the Grahams for approximately 30 minutes and that they discussed religious freedom, religious persecution and growth of the Grahams ministry in China, Sudan and North Korea.
Towards the end of the meeting, according to Gorka, Billy Graham led a prayer for the Romneys, saying "I'll do all I can to help you. And you can quote me on that."
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truebrit71
(20,805 posts)Evil, racist fucks...
Botany
(70,539 posts)please Billy is a democrat ..... I don't buy that quote @ all
BTW Billy is not looking very good.
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)Because of first rate health care and he is a fuckin money machine.
julian09
(1,435 posts)His real God is his money right here on earth, how much will he leave to the poor? Jesus was a real Evangelical, who didn't profit from
the poor.
julian09
(1,435 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)when he does not believe in the same god as other Christians
I still want to see those Gold Tablets that the LDS is based on .............
moobu2
(4,822 posts)probably more. Proving that there is a lot of money to be made selling oil of the snake. Just think how many poor people sent their last money to this creep thinking they would be rewarded later. scumbag piece of ^%%.
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/billy-graham-net-worth/
Billy Graham is an American evangelical Christian evangelist, he has a net worth of $25 million. V has earned his net worth as a Southern Baptist who rose to celebrity status as his sermons were broadcast on radio and television. Graham was born on a dairy farm near Charlotte, North Carolina in 1918, he has conducted many evangelistic crusades since 1948 Graham founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association with its headquarters in Minneapolis in 1950, it later moved to Charlotte, North Carolina.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)dimbear
(6,271 posts)Smooth move, Mitch.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)onager
(9,356 posts)I recently read the book "Gangster Squad" by Paul Lieberman. It's a great, fast-moving true story of the Los Angeles Police Dept. secret squad formed in 1946 to fight organized crime.
L.A.'s most famous (semi) native gangster was Mickey Cohen. Famous partly because he incurred the displeasure of local Sicilian entrepreneur Jack Dragna, causing Cohen's house in Brentwood to mysteriously explode. Also causing lots of bullets to fly around in the "Battle of Sunset Strip."
Cohen used an electronics expert named Jim Vaus to sweep his offices/home for bugs etc. Vaus was the son of a Holy Roller preacher and eventually re-converted to Xianity, in a very public Billy Graham crusade.
But Vaus was pretty small fry. He and Graham got it into their heads that Cohen might convert to Jebus. This would be a major P.R. coup, since Cohen was a media star.
Cohen knew a bunch of rubes when he saw them, and milked Graham's wealthy backers for years by hinting that he might publicly convert.
During one Graham crusade in NY City, Cohen stayed at the Waldorf. He showed up every night at Billy's circus, standing in the back. And every night, Graham expected him to come down during the "altar call" for conversion. Hallelujah and pass the Press Releases!
But in the end, Cohen said, "I'm just a Jewish kid." And stayed unconverted.
Smilo
(1,944 posts)he is nothing but a "my way or the highway" religionist who has spread fear and hate quite successfully.
As for meeting with Romney - what is this "the enemy of my enemy.......?"
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)He doesn't believe in the slain Jesus Christ of Billy Graham's life work either