Graham Sees 'Revival' for New Orleans ("God has a Plan")

[buzzsaw_23]

Graham Sees 'Revival' for New Orleans

Tuesday October 4, 2005 3:01 PM

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LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - Evangelist Franklin Graham told an audience that Hurricane Katrina could lead to a spiritual rebirth of what he called a sinful New Orleans.

``There's been satanic worship. There's been sexual perversion,'' Graham said Monday in an appearance at Liberty University. ``God is going to use that storm to bring revival. God has a plan. God has a purpose.''

Graham's comments, reported by The News & Advance of Lynchburg, were made at Thomas Road Baptist Church's Super Conference 2005 at Liberty. Both the church and the university were founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell.

``The good news is that God loves sinners. Jesus Christ is coming back and he's alive,'' said Graham, son and designated successor of the Rev. Billy Graham.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5320490,00.html

Sorry Franklin if you were paying attention you would have noticed the first businesses up and running were the strip joints. So maybe G_d(ess) does have a plan.
From jazz, blues and hiphop, to secondlines, Mardi Gras Indians, Parades, Beads, Jazz Funerals, and red beans and rice on Monday nights, New Orleans is a place of art and music and dance and sexuality and liberation unlike anywhere else in the world.

[Benhurst]

1. God's plan according the Graham family: making money for

the Graham family. :puke:

[saigon68]

23. GRAHAM HAS A PLAN -- "For Lining his Own Pockets"

[rsmith6621]

2. What About Sinful

Washington DC..........

Graham said......"Hurricane Katrina could lead to a spiritual rebirth of what he called a sinful New Orleans"

Read the bible......sin covers alot of ground.....

Franklin Graham is a corporate preacher unlike his dad Billy who actually preaches from the heart and bible.

[AllyCat]

3. And perversion and devil worshipping just don't happen anywhere else

I can't stand the ridiculous rantings of the religious wrong. Where do they get this stuff? How come they aren't ranting DAILY about Las Vegas?

They are so weird...and sometimes dangerous.

[hobbit709]

4. Always dangerous

not just sometimes. People that think(?) like that are ALWAYS dangerous to anyone capable of critical thinking.

[AllyCat]

5. You're right...I gave them too much credit to be background noise only.

[Divine Discontent]

46. EXACTLY!!!!

and just like the other person said, what were the first businesses back up????

this link is funny... the casinos are back baby!!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9587405/ "God" at work, yeah... they're all wingnuts!!!

[Richard Steele]

6. If God actually had a plan....

...Franklin Graham would be hit in the balls
by bolts of lightning, round the clock,
"on the Eights".

[wellstone_democrat]

49. lol

that was very very good

[Lars39]

7. Covetous ass.

I still want to know if it was troops or Blackwater Security protecting his missionaries in Iraq, and if any troops died protecting them.

[Solly Mack]

8. Fuck this crap

damn fools that see the devil everywhere are nothing but trouble for humankind

[tainowarrior]

9. what Satanic worship?

Voodoo? Is that what he refers to?

I hate these self-righteous assholes.

[AllyCat]

18. You know, those little voodoo dolls you can buy. Besides I saw a movie

that showed voodoo happening in New Orleans. So it must be true. :freak:

[tainowarrior]

21. well, i'm sure some do practice voodoo

Voodoo is the majority religion of Haitians, and New Orleans has a long history of Haitian slave descendants in the area.

But voodoo is not Satanism.

[AllyCat]

22. But to the fundies, anything like that must instantly be satanism

I know it's not the same thing. But you and I are not like them (thank heavens). Heck, these people probably think Methodists are satanic (because it's not THEM).

[tainowarrior]

27. anything

that is not a strict carbon-copy of they way they dress, the way they pray, the way they think, etc. is automatically Satanic. Therein lies the problem with fundamentalisms, all over the globe.

[Zynx]

28. They fundies even used to call Catholicism Satanism.

Bob Jones III called Paul VI "Satan's Bishop". It doesn't surprise me that they would call voodoo Satanism. They are intolerant, greedy morons.

[AllyCat]

29. Fascinating. Had it not been for Catholicism hauling Christianity

through the centuries, the Fundies would not exist. Now whether we can call what they hauled "Christianity" or not is another debate, but nonetheless...

Of course they are greedy. They are CorpoChristians (the true satanists IMHO).

[Zynx]

30. Indeed. They worship money over Jesus, meaning they are not

really Christians, but materialists.

[AllyCat]

32. So using my flawed logic (but it's better than THEIR logic):

They are worshiping exactly what both the Old and New Testaments warn against. Therefore, they are satanists.

Someone here had a lovely bumpersticker up at Cafe Press that said:

The Religious Right. Enforcing biblical rules, while ignoring bibilical principles.

That about sums it up, eh?

[Zynx]

34. "Enforcing biblical rules, while ignoring bibilical principles. "

I like that one.

[CatholicEdHead]

43. Some probably still do

and much of what is apparently eluded to seems to be attacks on specific New Orleans tradtion that came about from their own unique form of Catholoism over the years (e.g. Mardi Gras).

[yellowcanine]

10. Franklin Graham is a fraud trading on his daddy's name. Shameful.

[leesa]

24. Only right...his Daddy was a fraud as well

Both are very sick individuals. His Daddy's the better con man though.

[Bridget Burke]

25. No, Billy Graham made an effort to set up an honest organization.

His son tried the fast life for a while. Then he saw he could make more money preaching. He's made more right-wing pronouncements than his old man ever did.

[hatrack]

11. So, did "Reverend" Graham forget Mississippi and Texas?

Funny thing, those states also took a great deal of damage from direct hits by hurricanes, and yet there was apparently no divine plan to sweep away sinful behavior in those areas.

Why might that be, Frankie-baby? :eyes:

[ret5hd]

14. because god is old and his eyes are going...

so his aim's not that good anymore. hell, back in the day he could smite a city and those he warned could WALK far enough away to not be hit!

[oneighty]

12. Why these God peoples

do not just pray these storms away?

Ans. Because in their money grubbing hearts they dare not put their prayers out for public scrutiny for fear of failure.

Fakers all.

180

[Roland99]

13. What about the child-sex rings in LA. run by preachers?

What's Graham say about that???

[AllyCat]

19. CorpoChristains cannot be blamed for those kinds of things.

I'm sure their little god told them to do it.

[iam]

15. It's amazing to me

that gods' plan always involves death and destruction. How 'bout god just making people good and skip the horror?

[tainowarrior]

17. he does...

that's us here at DU. We're trying our best to warn the rest of the sheep from the false prophets.

WE'RE God's plan. I'm sure of it. We good minded people are here to help others.

[Gregorian]

16. And it looks just like DISNEYLAND.

No freaks.

[AndyTiedye]

20. Yeah, And The Part of Town With the Most "Sin" Was Barely Touched

Bourbon Street and all that are just fine.
It was mostly black residential neighborhoods that got drowned.
What manner of "sin" is he talking about?
Is being black a sin in Franklin Graham's twisted little world?

[Seabiscuit]

26. STFU, Billy Boy - you friggin' money-grubbing hypocrite!

[damntexdem]

31. I have a question about God's plan:

How much does God plan to expend in no-bid contracts with Halliburton?

[Geo55]

33. LOL , if there really is some "god" plan

Folk's like Frankie wouldn't have a clue as to it's purpose.

[Algorem]

35. "A shining caucasionosity of redemptionamiousness!Can I get an amen?"

[superconnected]

36. Grahm, you're alive because God doesn't want you.

And you annoy the hell out of the Devil.

[Zenlitened]

37. Franklin Graham? Ugh. Another religion-besotted loon heard from.

:puke:

[0007]

38. OMFG! Don't these crock shucker's ever STFU?

Not when there's a buck to be made in the name of superstition that wears the badge of Jays'us.

[KamaAina]

39. If POS Graham were really that concerned about the souls

of New Orleanians, he'd do what street preachers have done for ages: meander up and down Bourbon Street carrying a cross and crying out prophecies of doom.

Then again, that's hardly the way to make sure the big $$$ donations keep flowing in, now is it? :puke:

[geniph]

40. Oh right. So none of the people who died

were apparently good Xtians, is that what Frankie is claiming?

FOAD, Frankie, you asshole. I hope one of the surviving relatives beats the crap out of you for that piece of insensitive stupidity.

[melody]

41. The good news is half this country knows BS when it sees it

Can you believe this cretin? If he wants to clean up sin and depravity, why doesn't he start with Washington DC.

Oh, please, lets start a church that makes everything they do sinful and awful. Can we, huh? Can we?

[savemefromdumbya]

42. People are so gullible to believe this idiot

who is to say what God is doing?

[Divine Discontent]

45. Amen....

what a foolish man, he doesn't speak for THIS Christian.. and I'm sure he certainly doesn't speak for

GOD! (of all the things to say you are speaking for!)

[KLF44]

44. Let he who is without sin

cast the first stone. I doubt Mr. Franklin should being comments about how sinful N.O. was unless he is sinless.

[arwalden]

47. So God Has All This Planned Out? A Big "Master Plan"?

What a simpleton!

[wellstone_democrat]

48. He makes me want to become a lesbian stripper

just to piss him off.

[stepnw1f]

50. Crazy Bastards!!!

I leave them alone... why can't they leave me alone? Why can't they live in this world without having to oppress others around them? Are they that scared? Or is it all MONEY!