Sunday, April 19, 2015

Know-it-all.

The Republicans of North Carolina, with their usual evangelical zeal, wish to put a statue of evangelist Billy Graham in the state capitol once the old bastard is dead and buried.  To achieve this goal they are making a big fuss as to how Bill's statue would replace that of Governor Charles B. Aycock, who served from 1901 to 1905. I don't think it makes a bit of difference whom he replaces, Billy Graham may be been a wildly popular worldwide evangelist, but he is also a money-grubbing con man. I utterly dislike Graham, not only because was a proven anti-Semite, or that he vilified John F. Kennedy because he was Catholic. Not even because when I travelled to Europe on the United States, Graham, also a passenger, conducted services for "first class passengers only." I dislike him because, being an atheist, I regard all such preachers as charlatans and scam artists, making millions by telling people how sinful they are; living like princes while creating guilt in the gullible poor. Also believing in the separation of church and state, I don't think public property is the right place to honor religious figures especially when it's just another ploy to cram Christianity down America's throat.

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