Remember the Billy Graham crusades ?

[Beachnutt]

He used to go around the country filling stadiums to "preach", trump is doing the same exact thing.
The one from last night sounded from what I listened to of it like one of the crusades, has he been taking lessons from the evangelical con men on how to brainwash ?

[CrispyQ]

1. Except Trump isn't filling stadiums.

We must remember that we outnumber them.

[Beachnutt]

2. No he isn"t but he is going around the country

preaching to his cult, is that not bizarre ?
What is he ?
A traveling con man ?

[CrispyQ]

3. Baby needs his attention fix. -nt

[Beachnutt]

4. Are the crowd sizes getting smaller at his

magacult gatherings ?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. Yes, but when they do the media reliably puts a tighter close shot lens on the cameras.

[ShazzieB]

15. And don't members of his staff herd people together in one section

to make that tight shot look good? I've always assumed that must be the case. Left to their own devices, people will spread out all over the place, making the empty spaces much more obvis.

[Butterflylady]

6. Omg yes

My grandmother took me to all his crusades in Pennsylvania. To a 8 yr. Old they were scary. They would show a film and at the end it showed that if you weren't saved you would burn in hell. To an 8 year old that's what was terrifying. The world was coming to an end and I was going to die.

That is one of the reasons why I do not believe in any organized religion. To me they are all fairy tales.

No I am not an atheist, I just don't believe in myths.

[Beachnutt]

7. Next trump will have a choir to sing praise to him

and at the end of his maga service he will say " come, just come down to the front of the stage and except me as your saviour...repeat after me.

[crazylikafox]

12. Don't give him any ideas

[7wo7rees]

8. Yeah but, Billy Graham actually filled the stadiums.

I was there for the Jesus fest in Dallas in summer of 1972.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/02/22/how-billy-graham-closed-down-dallas-and-co-wrote-townes-van-zandt-s-pancho-and-lefty/

[Wingus Dingus]

9. I watched some in the crowd swaying like they were hearing a prayer.

How fucking around-the-bend do you have to be to hear his singsong bullshit and act like it's a religious experience?

[gibraltar72]

11. I was actually dragged to one as a child.

[Midnight Writer]

13. Of course he is taking lessons from evangelical preachers. Look at his hair.

And he used to start every rally with the beginning children's choir from "You Can't Always Get What You Want".

[Brother Buzz]

14. The Billy Graham crusades didn't try to squeeze money from the crowd, rather.....

Billy Graham encouraged attendees to seek out local churches and get involved. I can't address Billy's asshole son, Franklin, but I can say with authority, Billy Graham wasn't a "Me, Me, Me" asshole.

[ShazzieB]

16. I agree.

I went to one of his events at Shea Stadium in 1970. He was the real deal. Whatever you think about what he was preaching, I don't think there's any question that he believed in it himself.