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Hitchens is dead.Need another Christopher Hitchens article for this man to follow Hitchen’s critique of Jerry Falwell’s passing
Billy Graham, to me, is the represent identify of Christianity in America. The works stemming from the Christian world in the U.S. that fought for the abolition of slaves, opened schools, and taught African or African decedent people - most often slaves, or those who escaped - were taught to read and write English. The Christian identity in this country is, to me, the well spoken testimony of the Christian message. Though be it not in Communion in ordinary place of the Church. But nevertheless, did the message reach here in the U.S. And did pave great avenues for people who were born with the skin color of being black to be able to live in a world that subscribed in keeping them down to never read and write. And, with the civil rights movement with MLK and Billy Graham, and nonetheless Catholic Faithful Priests and religious as well. Did the common good orient in a Christian way. And to me, Billy Graham is the legacy of American Christianity.Evangelist was spiritual adviser to several US presidents Evangelist Billy Graham has died at the age of 99. Graham died shortly before 8 a.m., Wednesday at his home in Montreat, N.C., the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association announced.