Evangelize Everywhere?

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IF THE REV. Franklin Graham wanted to play the role of Mother Teresa in Iraq, ministering "quietly" to a suffering people, as he wrote in a recent op-ed article in the Los Angeles Times, he should have thought through the operation a little more carefully. It's hard to slip into a mostly Muslim country unnoticed when you are the son of America's most famous Christian evangelist, a friend of the president -- and, most to the point, a public figure who has called Islam a "wicked" and "evil" religion, "a greater threat than anyone's willing to speak."
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--from an editorial, copyright Washington Post, April15, 2003
 
Smalso said:
--from an editorial, copyright Washington Post, April15, 2003
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Well he was right about his description of Islam--it has been a tool used to deceive hundreds of millions to conduct acts of violence, a highly unnatural state for most other religions in the world in this day and age.

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Jedi Knight said:


Well he was right about his description of Islam--it has been a tool used to deceive hundreds of millions to conduct acts of violence, a highly unnatural state for most other religions in the world in this day and age.

JK
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Except, of course, for Christianity.
 
More trouble for Frank Graham, from Yahoo and Reuters:
Muslims at the Pentagon are incensed by what they say is an insensitive invitation to evangelist Rev. Franklin Graham, who has called Islam an "evil religion," to preach on Good Friday at the Defense Department.
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Why am I not surprised that prayer services held at the Pentagon are generating controversy?
 
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Smalso said:


Except, of course, for Christianity.
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Except Christianity doesn’t dominate many nations government’s as Islam does.
 
Except Christianity doesn’t dominate many nations government’s as Islam does
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Quite a few of them, including the richest and most powerful one on earth.
 
The Rev. Franklin Graham, who has assumed the mantle of his famous father, evangelist Billy Graham, preached to a packed auditorium at the Pentagon yesterday over the objections of Muslim employees.

Several Muslims who work for the Department of Defense had urged the Pentagon chaplain's office to disinvite Graham because he has called Islam a "very evil and wicked religion" bent on "world domination."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53250-2003Apr18.html
 
This is hilarious:
IF THE REV. Franklin Graham wanted to play the role of Mother Teresa in Iraq, ministering "quietly" to a suffering people, as he wrote in a recent op-ed article in the Los Angeles Times,
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Yes...let's minister "quietly"...after I make sure everyone knows about it. :rolleyes: Comparing himself to Mother Theresa...it amazes me, the size of a preacher's ego...
 
pyrrho2000 said:
This is hilarious:

Yes...let's minister "quietly"...after I make sure everyone knows about it. :rolleyes: Comparing himself to Mother Theresa...it amazes me, the size of a preacher's ego...
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Having a big ego is apparently required of a successful evangelist. Franklin Graham has two problems (at least). First, it seems he's rather suddenly expected to be the spokesman for the family business, which was built over a long time by his father, a talented and skilled evangelist. Franklin, however, has been handed the enterprise as a fait accompli and may not understand it well enough or be talented enough to run it at this point. He hasn't the luxury of developing his chops in the minor leagues, out of earshot of the press, as his father did. His tactlessness so far may be due to a lack of experience.

Second, being a fundamentalist evangelist, he may well have been inculcated with the notion that Christianity is to be imposed on everyone and that all other religions are at least wrong, if not all evil. Whatever he believes, his remarks reviling other religions can only get him bad press in today's world. His daddy may have believed it, too, but was apparently smart enough to keep it to himself in delicate situations.

Inviting Franklin to preach to the Pentagon is just another diplomatic blunder from the Bushies.
 
The elder Graham was a favorite at the Nixon White House for prayer breakfasts, consultations and such. When the Watergate doo-doo hit the fan, Billy moved rather swiftly to disassociate himself from The Trickster as much as he could.
 
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1050831235136750.xml
When Muslim groups complained that the Pentagon was "endorsing" his attacks on Islam, Graham asked for a photo op with Muslim Pentagon employees. They declined.
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Treating Operation Iraqi Freedom as a lucky break for Jesus, Graham told the religious Web site Beliefnet: "We are there to reach out to love them and to save them, and as a Christian I do this in the name of Jesus Christ."
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I'm convinced. The man is an idiot.
 
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