Billy+Graham

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 * Billy Graham ||

[] William Franklin”Billy” Graham Jr. Age 92(lived through the cold war era) An American evangelical Christian evangelist Christian Crusader After Billy committed himself to Christ in 1938 He returned to Palatka, Florida, where as a student he had embarrassed himself with a poor sermon. He urged local preachers to tout him. (One preacher told a local newspaper) He cried from the roof tops. 'What good did it do to preach to empty pews?' he reasoned. He had brochures printed: 'Hear Billy Graham' and 'Young Man with a Burning Message'. His brochures became brasher: 'Dynamic Youthful Evangelist'. Finally modesty was thrown aside. 'Great Gospel Preacher' and 'One of America's Outstanding Young Evangelists' crowed his brochures. He still remains to address mass at 92. Influence grew, particularly among "mainline", he drew criticism from fundamentalists who felt his cooperation with churches affiliated with the National and World Council of Churches signalled a compromise with the corrupting forces of modernism. Bob Jones accused him of peddling a "discount type of religion" and "sacrificing the cause of evangelism on the captioned of temporary convenience." The enduring break with hard-line fundamentalism came in 1957, when, after accepting an invitation from the Protestant Council of New York to hold a crusade in Madison Square Garden, Graham announced, "I intend to go anywhere, sponsored by anybody, to preach the gospel of Christ, if there are no strings attached to my message. ... The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.”    Relation to after the bomb  Graham's "big break" came in the 1940s, when publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst got wind of Graham's then-recurring theme that the Cold War was a showdown between good and evil, and ** that communists were Satan-worshippers. ** "Either communism must die or Christianity must die," Graham famously preached, and Hearst sent a memo to all of his papers' editors, ordering them to "puff Graham At the height of the blacklists and American red scare of the 1950s, Graham said of his friend, Senator Joseph McCarthy, "While nobody likes a watchdog, and for that reason many investigation committees are unpopular, I thank God for men who, in the face of public denouncement and ridicule, go loyally on in their work of exposing the pinks, the lavenders, and the reds who have sought refuge beneath the wings of the American eagle and from that vantage point try in every subtle, undercover way to bring comfort, aid and help to the greatest enemy we have ever known -- communism."