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Posted by howdy (+4944) 12 years ago
is busy ruining his families good reputation...He just called secularists the antichrist and not in a good way on a Sunday morning news program...Billy Graham was widely respected but this son of his is truly looney tunes IMO...
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Posted by korky II (+608) 12 years ago
Why is it Howdy that you seem to be against anything that happens ? You sound like a far far left liberal who is not happy with anything and has an attitude of : I know my rights. I want them now. It's someone elses fault, and I'm a victim. Just because he is Billy Graham's son does not mean he shares the exact same view as his father.
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Posted by howdy (+4944) 12 years ago
I am certainly no victim, and doubt that someone like you could possibly understand where I am coming from, so I won't try to explain...obviously a waste of typing...However, I am a proud far left liberal, at least you got that right...
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Posted by Bixby (+42) 12 years ago
Thanks Korky II for saying what I've been thinking for quite some time. Isn't it interesting that if you don't agree completely with the 10 or 12 people that think they own this site, they go into attack mode!
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Posted by Richard Bonine, Jr. (+15599) 12 years ago
Here is what he actually said:

WASHINGTON, April 24 (UPI) -- Franklin Graham, son of American evangelist Billy Graham, said Sunday the state of world affairs could be construed as the end of days.

Graham made his comments on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour." Asked if Easter is about sacrifice or love, Graham said it's about both.

"It's all of that," Graham said. "It's God's love. It's the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for me. When I look at Easter, I look at my sins and realize that Jesus Christ paid my debt in full when he died on that cross. He died for me. He died for you."

Graham, who has said we live in the day of the anti-Christ, said he is concerned about secularism.

"I look at the world in which we live today, and the secularism is . anti-Christ. It's every bit anti-Christ. We can't talk about Jesus in our schools. God has been kicked out of our government. And whether it's Europe or whether it's here, yes, the spirit of anti-Christ is in the world today."

Asked about the end of days spoken about in the Book of Revelations in the Bible, Graham said he believes in a literal interpretation of the events it describes.

"Well, Jesus said these events would come with more frequency and would increase in intensity, just like labor pangs, so that's what the Bible says," Graham said. "I believe we are in the latter days of this age. When I say latter days, could it be the last 100 years or the last 1,000 years or the last 6 months? I don't know.

"But the Bible, the things that the Bible predicts, earthquakes and famines, nation rising against nation, we see this happening with more frequency and -- and more intensity."


http://www.upi.com/Top_Ne...z1KUHsdBju

Seems like there is a difference between saying "secularism is anti-Christ" which is what he said and "secularists are the the anti-Christ" which he did not say. I am not sure how this ruins the family name or is any more hetrodox than what his father taught.
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Posted by Wendy Wilson (+6173) 12 years ago
It's Revelation, not Revelations. I hate when folks get that wrong.
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Posted by howdy (+4944) 12 years ago
LOL, Wendy, you just made my otherwise very sad day...thanks...I needed that... and no folks, my sad day has nothing to do with this thread...
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Posted by Bridgier (+9547) 12 years ago
What's interesting to me is that Franklin sees Constantinianism as the right and natural state of the Church, and that without the patina of Christianism society stands in an anti-christ state.

It's been a sad generation for the proponents of civil religion, of that I have no doubt.
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