Now go, and sin no more

Also on this day, in 1918, evangelist Billy Graham was born.

"Current evangelism is as far as one can go in the pursuit of faith without works. Graham has brought to perfection the notion of a global parish, that is, no parish at all. He is relieved of the need to make private visits, to gather boxes of old clothes in the church basement, to perform weddings, bury the dead, to encourage rummage-sales and pie-suppers. Not only is he relieved, but the saved are also...

"With their salvation kits, they are like patients making a single visit to a clinic and who are therefore recorded in the cure statistics." -- Elizabeth Hardwick.

He never met Jerry Falwell

October 5, 1703 -- American religious leader Jonathan Edwards born.

"He (Edwards) believed in the worst God, preached the worst sermons, and had the worst religion of any human being who ever lived on this continent." -- M. M. Richter.

October 6 -- Children's Day.

"All children are essentially criminal." -- Denis Diderot.

And universities, too

Today is the birthday of Oral Roberts, born in 1918.

"Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens." -- Montaigne.

An epi-Graham

Billy Graham was born November 7, 1918.

"Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable." -- Anatole France.

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