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(37,428 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)while his carcase is "lying in state" at the capitol.
Even Trump is supposed to talk.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)The faithful could probably use a little reindoctrination about now.
Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)dalton99a
(81,566 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)"...Graham's corpse will lie in state at the Capitol rotunda only the fourth private citizen to be so honored, and the first since Rosa Parks in 1995. This is a disgrace. But in a certain way, it's also right and fitting as oddly appropriate as Graham's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. If Billy Graham was, ultimately, a conniving hypocrite with a layman's grasp of the Bible and a supernatural lust for earthly power, he was also a quintessential American success story. He was not so much "America's pastor" as its greatest evangelical entrepreneur the man who launched a whole separatist (and lucrative) Christian media culture, who laid the foundations for megachurches and prosperity ministries, who brought Jesus back into American politics. He was a public-relations savant, a shameless sycophant who whispered sweet nothings to power in lieu of hard truths. He demonstrated what fortunes could be made, and what human glory could be attained, by transforming evangelical Christianity into a patriotic corporate entity. If that's not American, by God, what is?"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-soul-crushing-legacy-of-billy-graham-w517067