Profoundly as the death of a president. A conservative southerner, graham walked a tight line during Turbulent Times in america. Refusing to segregate his services in the deep south on one hand. Christianity is not a white mans religion. Dont let any body tell you it is white or black. He never joined the civil right marches on the other. He later said he regretted it along with his comments about joouz in a 1972 conversation with president nixon. You know i told you one time the bible talks about two kinds of jews, one the synagogue of satan, putting out the obscene films. Asked about his life, billy graham, said, oh, lord i am a sirn, i still need your forgiveness. But death he said was not something he feared. No, i look forward to death. With great anticipation. I am looking forward to seeing god face to face. Billy graham will be laid to rest at his museum and library in charlotte, north carolina. Alongside his late wife ruth. They were married for 64 years before she died in 2007
Growing up, a lot of people judged me because of the way i look. I thought all asians were good at math. You all look the same to me. No, where are you really from . 9 11 was your fault. How do you see out of such small eyes . Go back to your country. I guess i wish that people knew. We are not all the same. We are not all the same. We are not all the same. Now, two young syrian girls are posted haunting pleas for help. Noor and ala, 10 and 8 believed to be trapped amid some of the worst bombing in the sevenyearold civil war. At sad regime backed by russia trying to wipe out resistance in ghouta outside damascus. Hundreds killed. A message posted by the girls interrupted by bombs. Our Charlie Dagata spoke to their mom today. Family has had no food three days calling it the hardest 72 hours of the war. In mexico surveillance cameras captured the moment an explosion blew a hole in a ferry boat in plaa playa del carmen. 18 people hurt in playa del carmen. Injuries not considered life thre
Guest never read a book out of its native tongue, because youll lose too much. And then he gets to the last one is religion. And he said when it comes to religion above all things, fix reason firmly in her seat and question with boldness even the very existence of god for if there be a god he must surely rather honest questioning over blindfolded fear. That changed my life. That coupled with the fact that Thomas Jefferson was the man who fought the first war against islam when he was in office. We had the first, you know, the barbary pirates, and he didnt really understand it. He was trying to understand, you know what do these people want . He owned one of the first copies in english of the quran in the United States. So he was a scholar, he Read Everything in its native tongue when he could he tried to be as fair as he could and he also read the entire quran. So i think he gives us a good example that this is a good place to start but we should all read the quran. We should all know
Chessboard. And in empire of self, Middlebury College professor of english jay parini recalls the life of gore vidal. Look for titles in in the bookstores this week and watch for the authors in the future on cspan2. Host glenn beck, in your newest book why do you open with Thomas Jefferson and the library of congress . Guest because jefferson changed hi life. He wrote my life. He wrote a letter to his nephew, peter carr. Peter was 15, 14, somewhere in that a area. His mother had died, his father was about to the to die, and his father said to thomas, thomas l you oversee the education of my son when i pass on . Smartest man i know. Is he said, sure. So when peter comes of age, he writes him this beautiful letter. And he says in mathematics, you have to learn these things. Never read a book out of its native tongue because youll lose too much, and then he gets to the last one, and he said when it comes to religion, above all things fix reason firmly in her season and question with boldn