Franklin Graham Pusses Out
- if you need to see evidence, here's the link.
For my part, he has separated himself from us. He is no longer with us.
So, all this guy's standing up for Christians, declaring Islam is a religion of Satan saying that Obama's sympathy for Islam will lead to persecution of Christians and Jews, it all meant nothing?
He's not willing to stand for the foundational precept of Freedom of Speech?
What does Franklin Graham stand for? If he is not willing to stand for Freedom of Speech - the absolute FIRST PRINCIPLE of life - then what does he really stand for?
Who the fuck is he?
I have a lesson for Franklin Graham: IF A MAN IS NOT FREE, HE CAN NOT CHOOSE TO FOLLOW GOD!
So, if you are not willing to stand for Freedom, you are standing against people's ability to choose to follow God.
The reason Freedom of Speech is the first principle is because words are how we define ourselves; HOW WE CHOOSE TO BE WHO WE WANT TO BE, WHO ARE, AND WHO WE WILL BECOME.
IF WE CAN NOT CHOOSE THESE THINGS, WE CAN NOT CHOOSE ANYTHING.
Here's something for Christians to ponder (if you're not a Christian, go ahead and ignore this part):
When Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden, God had three choices:
1) He could have turned them into automotons.
2) He could have utterly destroyed mankind, and declared us an experiment gone wrong.
or
3) He could have done what He did, which is to allow us to keep our Freedom of Choice, and worked out a way to use it for His Greater Glory.
God chose the way of Freedom for us, and that Greater Glory He worked out was to have His Son die for our sins, so that we could be reconciled to God, AS LONG AS WE CHOOSE TO FOLLOW HIM.
Therefore, when Jesus died on the cross, HE DIED FOR OUR FREEDOM BEFORE HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.
We make the choice to follow Him and THEN our sins our wiped clean.
One and then the other.
Freedom is embedded in the Christian worldview, no matter how much the average Christian, or the average Theologian might have you believe otherwise.
Freedom is necessary to follow God.
God made us in His Image.
He made us Free, Rational Human Beings, with a Creative Will.
He Loves us the way He created us.
Islam, on the other hand, believes that violence, coercion, and bribery can be used to motivate a person to follow Allah.
In other words, Islam does not believe in Freedom of Choice.
And on the other hand, Freedom of Choice is foundational to the Judeo-Christian worldview.
Christians need to take this to heart, and be willing to stand up for Freedom. Christians need to be willing to lay their lives on the line for Freedom.
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
7 comments:
How can it be that men like Rev. Graham and O'Reilly cannot understand what happened in Texas? We are in a society that does not show reverence or respect for religion, any religion. Christians had to put up with a naked guy portraying Jesus on stage, a crucifix in a jar of urine was considered art, and the Virgin Mary covered in feces. Where were the fires, bombings, killings in the name of God? Why can't Muslims man up and look the other way? Why? Because they view themselves as superior, and their god supreme ruler of men. Making their demands backed by violence they distance themselves from the rest of the world infidels. And our stupid and ignorant leaders and public personalities bow their heads and concede.
Megyn Kelly was magnificent debating O'Reilly. Good for her! She sure sees it like it is.
HEAR, HEAR!
I cannot express strongly enough my agreement with this blog post.
Franklin Graham runs around saying that Islam is of the devil, but objects to mocking the devil?
Huh?
Anonymous,
Exactly!
The respected reverend, having recognized the evil of Islam, should also have a better recall and understanding of Christendom's history of tolerance of Islamic hegemony. His suggestions to tolerate, even 'respect' Islam demonstrates a callous disregard for centuries of 'forgiveness', 'turning the other cheek', 'tolerance' and 'respect' towards Islam utterly failed to tame the Islamic beast...Byzantium shreiked and bled at the blade of Islam for nearly four centuries before finally resulting in the Crusades. The violence of those Crusades were directly a result of similar advice as this contemporary reverends. Thanks to which we now recognize Constantinople as Istanbul, why that region's once Christian majority which regularly celebrated mass at the Hagia Sophia has been annihilated by the sword of Islam.
Respect that? Not on "your" life, reverend. NEVER!
Anonymous,
I just grabbed your comment and posted it at my site.
"I agree that the folks in Garland were wrong."
Franklin Graham
Wrong to embrace Constitutional right? Hmmm
In Genesis 3, God told Adam "You are free....". It is Divine writ.
Islam declares man a slave.
I am a Christian because it is logical and it makes sense.
The Last English Prince
Laura Ingraham, too.
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