You've got to admire Raleigh News & Observer columnist Barry Saunders' courage writing this scathing piece of satire about the Rev. Billy Graham. One month the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association refers to Mormonism as a "cult," the next month they endorse a Mormon for president. As Mitt Romney changes his position on social issues to match the audience, perhaps it's OK for Billy Graham to do the same. Instead of pandering, the Republican National Committee refers to it as "flexibility." Graham's moral stands are obviously flexible, too, if he can match up Romney's social Darwinism to the Sermon on the Mount.
From the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association website, Franklin Graham wrote:
In recent days, President Clinton said that President Obama "has a plan to rebuild America from the ground up." But God-fearing Americans have no desire to see America rebuilt-but rather restored. To "rebuild it" would be to create a new nation without God or perhaps under many gods. This was never the intent of those who shed their blood for the freedom to worship as "one nation under God. I pray that all Christians and God-fearing Americans will put aside labels and vote for principles-God's principles-that for many years have resulted in His blessing upon our nation. So, can a Christian vote for a Mormon? The answer is yes.
Politics makes for strange bedfellows. When politicians go to bed with preachers, neither one will like one another in the morning.
Mike | Oct 25, 2012 | 9:02am
You say that we have got to admire the courage of a man who writes a scathing commentary on the Rev. Billy Graham. Why should anyone admire for any reason David Scott who obviously is unable to think rationally or he would have known that the Reverend Billy Graham and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association are not one and the same. Dr Graham has not taken a leadership stance in some time since his battle with Alzheimer. As for Doctor Graham, he has consistently upheld honesty, truth and moral decency for more years than you or David Scott has been alive. If the two of you truly want to understand Christian values and their application, why don’t you two become real Christians and learn of Jesus before you make any more comments about his servants?
As for Romney, the values of common decency that he puts forth are far better than the constant lies Obama has handed America. Barrack Obama is a Muslim. Muslims worship Allah, the Moon god. Allah is a stone idol that represents the Earth’s Moon. The religion of Islam that surrounds Allah has a “Holy Book”, written by Mohamed, that tells the followers of Allah that all who will not worship Allah are to be put to death and they do that quite literally in many Nations of the World. So if given the choice of encouraging people to vote for a man whose religion is guided by the spirit that encourages murder or one whose religion seeks to know the Christian God that tells his followers to do good to humanity, would you encourage people to vote for the one whose religion encourages murdering innocent humans?
Billy Graham does not encourage people to do evil but he would most likely encourage them to vote for the known good. If anyone calls themselves a Christian and has trouble voting for a Mormon, how in the name of all decency can they possibly vote for a Muslim? For a person who calls them self a Christian to vote a Muslim into the White House would be the same as voting for Satan to be put in there. And if the past four years have testified to anything it is to the satanic destruction of America by Socialist Leadership.
David Scott and perhaps even you may have issues with Christianity, Republicans, Dr. Graham or just dislike good people in general, but if you were really serious about values in leadership, why haven’t you written about Obama being a Muslim when initially he tried to make Americans believe that he was a Christian? How about his lying to America about his birthplace when he has admitted to the news media that he was born in Kenya and that he is not even a US Citizen. Obama has never legally immigrated into the US which makes him an illegal alien. Obama’s wife has also made the statement that her husband was born in Kenya. These comments from the Obamas are on audio and video news film and can be viewed on youtube.com at the following address.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player_embedded
Obama is in violation of the US Constitution and not legally President of the United States. And, as an example of his double mindedness, Obama treated our soldiers like dirt telling them that they should not whine about his telling them that they should provide their own insurance instead of America taking care of them when they are wounded in combat in service to their country until he needed their vote. I have talked to many of our soldiers and not one of them have expressed the slightest respect for him. So if you and David Scott want to attack something, why not make it the filth in our society instead of a man who has dedicated his life to doing good for people all over the world and has done so for more years than either of you have probably been alive.
Cliff Williams | Nov 5, 2012 | 9:09pm
Not all Christians agree with Billy Graham. For a statement by two professors at Trinity College in Deerfield, Illinois, visit www.cliffordwilliams.net/valuesinpolitics.
Amanda Greene | Nov 5, 2012 | 11:21pm
Thank you so much for your thoughts and suggested reading, Cliff! Here is another article on this subject and continued news issue: http://wilmingtonfavs.com/politics/election/nc-naacp-letter-blasts-and-questions-motives-behind-recent-graham-ads
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