"Readers pay exorbitant prices for the books of Christian superstars, never knowing that the volumes are actually written by no-name "ghosts." Among the big names pulling this stunt: Hal Lindsey, Chuck Colson, Jim Bakker, Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, Benny Hinn, John Ankerberg, Hank Hanegraaff, David Jeremiah and Jerry Falwell."

We now know that many brand name preachers are lying. They are putting their names on books ghostwritten by others and that includes Billy Graham, who is still drawing at 83 year of age a 100 % as chairman of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Organization even though he is sick and dying and works less than 25% of the time.

Billy Graham has prostrate cancer and Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous disorder that has already made it impossible for him to drive a car or write by hand. Graham, an ordained Southern Baptist (SBC), heads a $100 million a year evangelistic empire, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA).

Billy Graham is not sure if heaven is the right place for him. He told Tony Snow in a Fox News interview, in response to the question 'When you get to Heaven, who's going to speak first, you or God?' Graham replied: 'When I get there, I'm sure that Jesus is going to say that he will welcome me. But I think that he's going to say: 'Well done, our good and faithful servant.' Or he may say: 'You're in the wrong place'."

Former President Bush called Graham "America's pastor." Harry Truman called him a "counterfeit" and publicity seeker.

Billy Graham was very deceitful about his close friendship with former president Nixon where he made disparaging comments ago about Jews, which we "inexcusable and indefensible and came out 30 years later.

White House tapes from 1972 released recently disclosed the evangelist agreeing with President Richard M. Nixon that left-wing Jews dominate the American media.

"They're the ones putting out the pornographic stuff," Graham said on the tape, adding: "This stranglehold has got to be broken or this country's going down the drain."

Graham, now 83 and in frail health, had originally denied ever stating anything disparaging about the Jews. But since the release of the Nixon tales has apologized publicly twice for the comments.

Mr. Graham was forced to issue the apology after the National Archives released more than 500 hours of tape recordings that Nixon made of conversations in the White House.

In one conversation in 1972 with Nixon, an old friend, the Southern Baptist evangelist complained about what he saw as Jewish domination of the news media. "You believe that?" Nixon asked. "Yes, sir," Mr. Graham said. "Oh, boy. So do I," Nixon continued. "I can't ever say that but I believe it."

"No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something," Mr. Graham said. "This stranglehold has got to be broken or this country's going down the drain."
Mr. Graham, now aged 83, had previously denied making the comments but with the release of the tapes two weeks ago the preacher could no longer deny that it was his voice - heavy with a North Carolina accent - that could be heard making the comments.

The sad part about Billy Graham's refusal to accept real responsibility is his use of the phrase "Although I have no memory of the occasion, I deeply regret comments I apparently made in an Oval Office conversation with President Nixon ... some 30 years ago."

Bill Clinton the former President of United States and a great liar also used a similar phrase to avoid answering questions asked of him during the Monica Lewinsky scandal and would state " I don't recall." But God has a perfect memory and he recalls all things and so do others.

Graham's two faced hypocrisy also came out in a 1l989 when a Graham memo to Nixon was made public. It took the form of a secret letter from Graham, dated April 15, 1969, drafted after Graham met in Bangkok with missionaries from Vietnam. These men of God said that if the peace talks in Paris were to fail, Nixon should step up the war and bomb the dikes. Such an act, Graham wrote excitedly, "could overnight destroy the economy of North Vietnam".

Graham lent his imprimatur to this recommendation. Thus the preacher was advocating a policy to the US Commander in Chief that on Nixon's own estimate would have killed a million people.

This disclosure of Graham as an aspirant war criminal did not excite any commotion when it became public in 1989, twenty years after it was written.

Graham has raised up two sons Ned and Franklin who are as deceitful as their father. Ned Graham, the son of Billy Graham, Southern Baptist minister, president East Gates International, a group that distributes Bibles in China told Christianity Today in an interview that he had abused alcohol and spent an "inappropriate amount of time" with two women on his staff.

Grace Community Church, Southern Baptist Convention, in Auburn, Washington--which counted Ned Graham, his wife, and their two sons as members established the fact that Ned Graham was an adulterer, alcoholic, wife abuser, and drug user and revoked Graham's ministerial credentials. It directed Graham to stop using the title reverend.

Yet in a style reminiscent of Jimmy Swaggart, who refused to be defrocked by the Assembly of God denomination, Ned Graham left that congregation for another church.

Most of the staff and board members of East Gates International resigned amid controversies. East Gates, in Sumner, Wash., withdrew its membership in the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability after Ned replaced the board members with his sister Ruth Graham McIntyre, brother-in-law Stephan Tchividjian, and business leader Peter Lowe.

Graham's sister Gigi Tchividjian has joined the office staff and Ned Graham continues as East Gates president. The ECFA the self-policing organization Billy Graham helped start requires that a majority of board members not be related by blood or marriage, which is no longer the case for East Gates.

A December East Gates fund-raising letter included a note from his father saying that "Ruth and I are proud of and grateful to God for our son Ned." East Gates has distributed 2 million Bibles to Christians in China, Billy Graham said, encouraging Christians to "back this unique and effective ministry."

Franklin Graham wears jeans, boots, denim shirt, and leather jacket. He was a teen rebel who drank, smoked, fought, and led police on high-speed chases. He was kicked out of LeTourneau College. He used to be a rebel and a 'bum' got religion and become more sophisticated and formed "the Samaritan's Purse' so that he can fly around the country and charge things to his non-profit corporation. As a result his ministry, Samaritan's Purse, had a run-in with the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, . The ECFA suspended Samaritan's Purse while it looked into Franklin's (Graham) compensation and use of the company plane

Although Billy Graham encourages religious leaders to be open about their salaries and publish their finances none of the Graham reveal their total compensation nor release their personal income tax as President Bush does and former President Clinton has done. " It's the law of the land that all non profit chairman of corporations must reveal their total salary and that Billy, Ned and Franklin do not speak volumes of their hypocrisy.

President Bill Clinton would make a great evangelist, Billy Graham told U.S. News & World Report in a interview. Graham said he was impressed with Clinton's charisma and 'with some of the things he believes. ... From a biblical point of view, we should be headed in the direction of goodness and righteousness, away from crime and immorality,' Graham said, 'and towards one's neighbors who are in need. I'm encouraged by the emphasis President Clinton (a Southern Baptist) and Hillary are putting on that.'

It's a fact that Christianity Today founded by Billy Graham did not report immediately on one of its own pastors Ollin Collins of Harvest Baptist Church in Fort Worth, and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's board chairman. A man who resigned amid sexual misconducts allegations when he was accused of having sexual relationships with two women who sought counseling.

But it did report about the adultery of a black man and a National Baptist but not about the adultery of a white man and Southern Baptist. An adultery that was more hideous and gross because Collins raped unsuspecting trusting women, while Lyons adulterous relationships were consensual. It has been said that Lyons will go down in the history books as "Hugh Hefner of the New Testament." http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/US/Henry_Lyons

Now concerning the fallen hero, the church had suspended Pastor Collins with pay pending an investigation. He resigned from his board position one day after a story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported the women's allegations and their intent to sue. Southwestern is the world's largest evangelical seminary, with 3,000 students on eight campuses.

But of course neither the Seminary nor the Church did anything for the real female victims but they did help and console the aggressor? Just like Billy Graham stated about Bill Clinton "I forgive him . . . because I know the frailty of human nature, and especially a strong, vigorous young man like he is. "He has such a tremendous personality that I think the ladies just go wild over him." In other words it was the fault of the victims not the victimizer?

They are all hypocrites and thieves their lack of accountability by their CEO's proves it. They are nothing but crooks and con artists and their smooth words do not change this fact! Otherwise hypocritical Baptist leader who preach integrity to others would not hide their salaries but be honest and state the "total compensation" of their five top employees, including Billy and Franklin Graham!

It is a fact that Rev. Jesse Jackson has never worked a day in his life in the private sector, has a net personal worth of over 4 million dollars and directly controls four non-profit organizations. It had been alleged that Rev. Jackson, a Baptist minister, has been siphoning money from these organization to support his wealth!

These allegation of financial impropriety turned out to be true when the media reported in January 2001 that using the ministry funds over the course of seven years Pentecostal Jim Bakker paid his lady friend only about one- half ($265,000) of what Baptist Jackson admitted to paying his mistress in two years ($472,000) -- and about one-third of what the National Enquirer reported Jackson has paid ($640,000).

Immediately after he was forced to own up to the love child (the National Enquirer had DNA evidence), Jackson pledged to withdraw from public life to "revive my spirit and reconnect with my family." For a few days, the airwaves were bristling with accounts of the Rev. Jesse's Jackson's deep suffering and his "trial of tears."

God's grace worked fast: After taking the weekend off, Jesse Jackson was back in action this week, just in time for a lucrative Wall Street shakedown. It's not as if he had done something really bad, like support a reduction in marginal tax rates.

The woman whose out-of-wedlock child was fathered by Jesse Jackson said that the civil rights leader dropped a possible third run for the White House in 2000 partly because of the scandal.

Karin Stanford, a one-time aide in Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition Washington office, also said her relations with Jackson have become strained since she took him to court to firm up child support arrangements. Jackson, she said, has seen his now 2-year-old daughter only once in the past seven months.

We have seen Rev. Jesse Jackson shake down Toyota, which had Toyota Motor Sales USA agreeing to spend nearly $8 billion over 10 years to increase minority participation in the company. Conservative groups who say Jackson continues a "shameless" pattern of "shaking down "corporate America for" private gain are attacking him.

So it's a fact that Jesse Jackson, Billy, Ned, and Franklin Graham are not only liars, but thieves and hypocrites who preach integrity to others but don't have it themselves!