Franklin Graham prays at Governor Kate Brown: Hardball politics, and a tax deduction, too.
"Let's pray for your governor, Governor Brown. Wouldn't it be something if she got saved? Amen."
Franklin Graham, Clackamas County Fairgrounds
Franklin Graham asks 12,000 people to pray for Governor Kate Brown. "We pray for Kate Brown. And Lord, I pray that she would come to know your son Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior one day. . . . If the church went to the polls and voted, you could turn this state around. The enemy out there thinks the church is asleep."
He knew exactly what he was doing: pointing out and condemning Kate Brown and trying to shame her as a Christ-less lost soul, while pretending to care for her. If her spiritual life were his real concern, he would have talked with her directly, in private, not describe the state of her soul to 12,000 people at a rally.
He knew exactly what he was doing: pointing out and condemning Kate Brown and trying to shame her as a Christ-less lost soul, while pretending to care for her. If her spiritual life were his real concern, he would have talked with her directly, in private, not describe the state of her soul to 12,000 people at a rally.
Beating politicians at their own game. It is wink-wink politics. He can pretend to be the good guy, sincerely concerned about Kate Brown, but everyone understands the game.
Some Christians may think it cheapens their faith to have talk of salvation and prayer be used as a weapon of negative campaigning and tribe building, but others won't care. There are no news reports of people among the 12,000 objecting. He is drawing lines in the sand, separating the sheep from the goats, the saved from the sinners, just the way God is described doing in Matthew 25. Franklin Graham is stepping in for God, defining her as a sinful goat.
Graham points his finger .Look at her, just look at her, one of the goats.
Some Christians may think it cheapens their faith to have talk of salvation and prayer be used as a weapon of negative campaigning and tribe building, but others won't care. There are no news reports of people among the 12,000 objecting. He is drawing lines in the sand, separating the sheep from the goats, the saved from the sinners, just the way God is described doing in Matthew 25. Franklin Graham is stepping in for God, defining her as a sinful goat.
Graham points his finger .Look at her, just look at her, one of the goats.
Moore's reflections quoted the Washington Post: 'Whether Huss is the wave of the GOP future, or as his critics believe, the voice of a hate-filled past, his victory represents one of the striking triumphs of evangelical religious participation in organizational politics. . . . Huss and his followers simply beat the politicians at their own game."
Franklin Graham is gaming the political system, cleverly, beating politicians at their own game.
Issue information ads. Readers have seen ad messages that go something ike this: "Congressman John Doe voted 'no' on a bill that put the interests of the Spotted Grouse ahead of our need for a pipeline that would create hundreds of new jobs for our community. This is an outrage. Call Congressman Doe and tell him to stop standing in the way of a strong economy." The ad would conclude with a disclaimer, "This ad brought to you by Citizens for Jobs, who want you to know the facts about the pipeline and Congressman Doe."
Of course, such an ad would be, in fact, a flagrant political ad, but it employs a legal fiction. It did not explicitly tell voters to vote against John Doe. It pretends to be "informational." The hypothetical Citizens for Jobs organization would be a 501-c-4 organization, one free to do advocacy, and it is able to get money transferred to it from 501-c-3 tax deductible organizations like bone fide charities. Tax deductible money slides into political advocacy, hidden by the fig leaf that the ad is information from a church or charity, not an inducement to vote a certain way.
Franklin Graham is doing an attack ad from the pulpit, while pretending to be an act of religious kindness. In God's absence, he presumes to know God's intention and grace, he identifies an un-redeemed sinner, the Democratic Governor.
See? Aren't I a wonderful man? I am praying for this sinner, not criticizing her. She is outside God's grace, oh how sad. I am not attacking her, I am praying for her.
We get it., Reverend Graham. We see what you are doing.
9 comments:
That;s it! Time to tax the church!
I respect anybody of faith. But I DO NOT respect those who act as if The Almighty has Anointed them to be in charge of ME.
NO. You can practice your faith....you don't get to make laws that ENFORCE YOUR FAITH upon OTHERS.
Peter: Why don't you tell us what kind of comments are verbotten and will be taken down so we don't waste our time?
Spot on as usual, Peter.
The Farce is strong in FG, isn't it?
I believe in a separation of church and state. The state gives religion certain privileges, and in return, the church should stay-out of the state's business. If the church wishes to become heavily involved in politics, then they should lose any special privileges that they receive (such as their tax-exempt status). Which leads us to the black churches, which are used heavily by democrat politicians to campaign in. Democrat politicians regularly attend Sunday services at black churches in order to campaign. I see a violation there, don't you?
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