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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:26 AM Feb 2018

Imagine what it would have meant to the civil rights movement if Reverend Billy Graham had

joined arms with Reverend Martin Luther King to March across Edmund Pettus Bridge and on to Montgomery.

I'm hardly an authority, but would that not have been the "Christian" thing to do?

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Imagine what it would have meant to the civil rights movement if Reverend Billy Graham had (Original Post) Atticus Feb 2018 OP
So called Christians mindem Feb 2018 #1
it would have rocked the world. onethatcares Feb 2018 #2
Never understood the reverence for Graham. He definitely could have done a lot more as you say. Hoyt Feb 2018 #3

onethatcares

(16,186 posts)
2. it would have rocked the world.
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:31 AM
Feb 2018

Even now one would think the "Christian" fellowship would get behind Jesus' teachings and push for a better world. But there ain't no money in that.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. Never understood the reverence for Graham. He definitely could have done a lot more as you say.
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:32 AM
Feb 2018

Of course, white wingers would have rejected him.

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