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Re:Billy Graham, charismatic evangelist with worldwide follo... by smt88 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @10:19AM (#16430035)
He encouraged Nixon to bomb Vietnam if the war continued, which the Nixon admonistration estimated would have killed 1 million people.

Everyone is a mixed bag of good and bad, but pushing a military leader to kill so many (mostly civilian) people is not forgivable.

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Re:Billy Graham, charismatic evangelist with worldwide follo... by jacobush on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:23AM (#16430573)
Why?
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Re:Billy Graham, charismatic evangelist with worldwide follo... by smt88 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @01:35PM (#16431731)
He was ardently anti-communist.

I'm sure he believed what he was doing was moral, just as the Bush administration thought invading Iraq was moral. That doesn't mean civilian lives instantly exit the equation.

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