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==Beliefs==
==Beliefs==
Sunday famously claimed that he did not know "any more about theology than a jack rabbit knows about pingpong."<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,937270-1,00.html Huckster in the Tabernacle], Time Magazine, Oct. 10, 1955 (review of William G. McLoughlin's book ''Billy Sunday Was His Real Name'')</ref>
He fiercely opposed alcohol:
He fiercely opposed alcohol:
:Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.... The saloon is the sum of all villainies. It is worse than war or pestilence. It is the crime of crimes. It is parent of crimes and the mother of sins. It is the appalling source of misery and crime in the land and the principal cause of crime. It is the source of three-fourths of the taxes to support that crime. And to license such an incarnate fiend of hell is the dirtiest, low-down, damnable business on top of this old earth.<ref>[http://billysunday.org/sermons/booze.html Famous 'Booze Sermon'], billysunday.org</ref>
:Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.... The saloon is the sum of all villainies. It is worse than war or pestilence. It is the crime of crimes. It is parent of crimes and the mother of sins. It is the appalling source of misery and crime in the land and the principal cause of crime. It is the source of three-fourths of the taxes to support that crime. And to license such an incarnate fiend of hell is the dirtiest, low-down, damnable business on top of this old earth.<ref>[http://billysunday.org/sermons/booze.html Famous 'Booze Sermon'], billysunday.org</ref>