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cbayer

(146,218 posts)
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 04:54 PM Mar 2015

Franklin Graham Is Still the Worst Thing to Happen to God in a While

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/derek-penwell/franklin-graham-obama_b_6809080.html

Derek Penwell
Author; Editor; Speaker; Activist

Posted: 03/06/2015 11:09 am EST Updated: 3 hours ago


NBC NewsWire via Getty Images

Well, Franklin Graham is at it again, giving Jesus yet another face-palm moment and ensuring that everyone else thinks Christians are mean-spirited whiners.

“What’s he done now?” you ask.

Franklin Graham continues to beat the drum that suggests President Obama and his administration are under the sway of a cabal of Islamic Svengalis. He worries that "our foreign policy has a lot of influence now from Muslims." In particular, Graham views the Obama administration’s less than enthusiastic reception of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before congress as proof that Islam is exerting perilous influence on American foreign policy--apparently preferring to have perilous influence exerted on American foreign policy by someone more Christian, like Bibi Netan … wait.

Graham sees this profligate tolerance of Islam as both telling and ominous: “They hate Israel and they hate Christians, and so the storm is coming.”

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tularetom

(23,664 posts)
1. God has handled worse than this pipsqueak and survived
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 04:59 PM
Mar 2015

Franklin Graham is a flea that has landed on God's little toe.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
3. He's referring back to an article he wrote last year and would most likely
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 05:05 PM
Mar 2015

agree with you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/derek-penwell/franklin-graham-is-the-wo_b_5392373.html

In that article he clarifies that he is the worst thing that has happened to God's reputation in a long time.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
2. I don't think he is a chip off of the old blocks. It is a shame he does not
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 05:03 PM
Mar 2015

Behave as Jesus taught to love everyone. Hopefully he can change his ways.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
5. Much as I have issues with his father, Franklin seems to have
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 05:08 PM
Mar 2015

completely lost any sense of goodness.

I guess everyone is capable of change, but in this case, I am highly pessimistic.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
4. what a dumb cracker that graham is.
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 05:06 PM
Mar 2015

A little wry humor there.

I am confused. While a candidate, President Obama was accused of being a radical Christian, a follower of United Church of Christ Pastor Jeremiah Wright.

After the election he was accused of being a Muslim extremist.

Plus Svengali, no relation to Ben Ghazi by the way, was a fictional Jewish character.

So does that make President Obama a militant Christian, terroristic Muslim of Jewish origin?

Please explain this to me Franklin.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
7. A recent poll found that 54% of republicans think that Obama
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 05:13 PM
Mar 2015

is a Muslim "deep down".

Then again, about 12 million americans believe in lizard people who are trying to dominate the world.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
9. polls show many things
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 05:21 PM
Mar 2015

Polling shows that approximately 40% of Americans self-identify as conservative.

Studies show that approximately 40% of Americans are functionally illiterate.

Coincidence? I do not think so.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
12. not sure if this is/was a challenge or not, but
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 06:46 PM
Mar 2015

if it is, I present, as corroboration on the functional illiteracy comment:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/illiteracy-rate_n_3880355.html

and for the political identification comment:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/152021/conservatives-remain-largest-ideological-group.aspx


I personally only make up 66.6% of my numbers.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
13. It was a bit of a challenge, but not a serious one.
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 06:48 PM
Mar 2015

I am rather compulsive about data when it comes to statistics, so I do actually appreciate the links very much.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
14. I research things like this approximately 80% of the time
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 06:50 PM
Mar 2015

and 32% of the time I make the numbers up.
5% of the time I am not sure.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
15. Hilarious! I am absolutely right about 27% of the time, absolutely wrong about 32% of the time
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 06:52 PM
Mar 2015

and somewhere in between 54% of the time!

No Vested Interest

(5,157 posts)
16. No one would pay this man any attention were he not
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 03:54 AM
Mar 2015

his father's son.
I'm not that fond of his father, Billy, either.

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