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Christopher Hitchens once devoted an entire book to portraying Mother Teresa as a phony, so perhaps Billy Graham got off easy when Hitchens described him, in a recent C-Span appearance, as "a self-conscious fraud," who didn't believe a word of what he preached, but was just in business for the money.
The celebrated atheist, whose latest polemic, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, is firmly entrenched on the bestseller list, also called Graham a power-worshiping bigot who made a living by "going around spouting lies to young people. What a horrible career. I gather it's soon to be over. I certainly hope so."
Graham, now 88 and in failing health, was recently hospitalized for two weeks for intestinal bleeding.
Over the course of his long public ministry, Graham has certainly acquired his share of critics a group which includes Graham himself. In our hours of interviews with him while researching our own book, The Preacher and the Presidents he was quick to find fault with his own conduct and quite willing to explore the reasons behind the mistakes he admitted making. The odd thing about Hitchens' attack is not that he assaults an ailing icon that's both his specialty and his right but that the evidence he cites actually proves him wrong.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1662757,00.html
The celebrated atheist, whose latest polemic, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, is firmly entrenched on the bestseller list, also called Graham a power-worshiping bigot who made a living by "going around spouting lies to young people. What a horrible career. I gather it's soon to be over. I certainly hope so."
Graham, now 88 and in failing health, was recently hospitalized for two weeks for intestinal bleeding.
Over the course of his long public ministry, Graham has certainly acquired his share of critics a group which includes Graham himself. In our hours of interviews with him while researching our own book, The Preacher and the Presidents he was quick to find fault with his own conduct and quite willing to explore the reasons behind the mistakes he admitted making. The odd thing about Hitchens' attack is not that he assaults an ailing icon that's both his specialty and his right but that the evidence he cites actually proves him wrong.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1662757,00.html
