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Billy Graham
Prophet or Profit? |
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I saw a television commercial recently for a BILLY GRAHAM crusade in Indianapolis. Billy said that there was "an empty void in your life." Is the implication that if you give him money you can have a full void? |
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
VOLTAIRE |
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"Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive."
AYN RAND |
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"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
MARK TWAIN |
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Is the only difference between Billy and our friend, JIMMY SWAGGART (left), that Billy's a little more discreet and cautious. Or, perhaps, just brighter and more devious? |
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"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents."
H. L. MENCKEN |
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"Convictions are more dangerous
enemies of truth than lies."
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE |
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
H. L. MENCKEN |
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Billy and Tricky Dick praying that no one catches on to them. |
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"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with destiny."
GEORGE SANTAYANA |
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"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian
any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."
BILLY SUNDAY |
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A THOUGHT:
Wouldn't it be humorous if someone somehow figured out that the Old Testament was really just the b.c. version of the National Enquirer? |
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"If God created us in His image, we have certainly returned the compliment."
VOLTAIRE |
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"If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
THOMAS SZASZ |
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"I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability."
OSCAR WILDE |
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"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
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POSTSCRIPT
"The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool."
VOLTAIRE |
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