Christopher Hitchens Curses Billy Graham
Christopher Hitchens was recently interviewed to self-promote his newest rant, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, calls Billy Graham “a self-conscious fraud,” who didn’t believe a word of what he preached, but was just in business for the money.
He calls Graham a “power-worshiping bigot” who made a living by “going around spouting lies to young people. What a horrible career. I gather [Graham's life is] soon to be over. I certainly hope so.”
Read the Time article defending Graham.
Watch the Video of Hitchens’ on C-Span Book TV
May God have mercy on Hitchens.
1Brian Trapp
wrote on 25 September 2007 at 14:59
In it for the money? I recall reading in Graham’s autobiography that he was appalled at the large amounts of money that were being collected in his early crusades. Thus he made sure he always received an average salary from his ministry that ran the meetings, regardless of how much people actually gave.
But I suppose it goes without saying that we shouldn’t expect Hitchens to do any actual research into this matter before bloviating upon it.