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Billy Graham's lurch towards Mitt Romney risks his legacy [Lib Suddenly Cares about Evangelicals]
The Guardian ^
| October 18, 2012
Posted on 10/18/2012 6:03:49 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
As America's pastor for the past half century, Billy Graham has earned a reputation as a wise and holy man. But the respect he has gained as a man of unflinching, unerring principles has been severely compromised by his Evangelistic Association's decision to remove a reference to Mormonism from its website...
"I hope millions of Americans will join me in praying for our nation and to vote for candidates who will support the biblical definition of marriage, protect the sanctity of life and defend our religious freedoms," Graham said.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; 2012endorsements; billygraham; christians; christianvote; evangelicals; religion
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To: SoFloFreeper
Instead, you have to ask for your liberal views to be washed away as well because your faith will always be suspect unless you subscribe to a certain brand of Christianity. True. Take every view to the Bible and see what washes away. I noted Ted Olson was Ryan's debate partner. I don't agree with Ted Olson on gay marriage either, but so far that lie has not penetrated to become orthodoxy in the R party. When it does, I'll abandon them too.
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posted on
10/18/2012 6:39:29 AM PDT
by
throwback
(The object of opening the mind, is as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
To: SoFloFreeper
“Billy Graham’s lurch towards Mitt Romney risks his legacy”
Not in my Book.
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posted on
10/18/2012 6:55:58 AM PDT
by
moovova
(I work well with others, as long as they leave me alone.)
To: TexasFreeper2009
"for the past half century, Billy Graham has earned a reputation as a wise and holy man. "He hasn't changed.
Perhaps those who disagree with him should reassess their positions.
Note tagline.
(BTW--I am not an Evangelical Christian. I am a very open-minded Episcopalian.)
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posted on
10/18/2012 6:56:28 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(The forces of decadence are the forces of evil.)
To: Holly_P
“He sold out when he took down, Mormonism is a cult from his web site. Vote for Romney or not as you please, that does not change what Mormonism is.”
Oh here we go again! The BAC’s are out trying to tell us that we are electing a Pope and we should not vote for A MORMON”! So how is the snake handling going?
To: grellis
This whole argument is absurd. We are electing a secular official, not a theologian. Anybody but a Marxist!
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posted on
10/18/2012 7:17:22 AM PDT
by
Augustinian monk
(People ask me 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' Why pray if he isn't?- Michael Horton)
To: SoFloFreeper
And Obumbler’s embracing the muslim brotherhood wasn’t risky to his evil legacy??The hypocrisy on the left knows no bounds!! At least morons don’t shoot 14yr old girls in the head for wanting an education or arresting a down syndrome child for saying something about the Koran.....GEESH!! Islam the religion of DEATH and ruled by evil men! Women don’t have a chance in hell in that occult....HEY NAGS get a freakin clue!!
To: grellis
Well said! I’ll take a Morman any day over a muslim, and by the way, I went to Wheaton College, the same college Billy Graham went to, and I remember him as a good person.
To: Holly_P
Well, I’m not voting for Barack Hussein Obama. It’s good you aren’t the judge of Billy Graham or anyone else.
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posted on
10/18/2012 7:38:47 AM PDT
by
Twinkie
(PEOPLE ARE HURTING IN OBAMA'S ECONOMY . . .)
To: Holly_P
B. Graham is Baptist and would not agree with that holy part.
I don't know what being a Baptist has to do about his being a Holy man.
Colossians 1:22 says that Christ reconciled Christians through his death and Resurrection (this is where the Reconciliation part comes in) to be Holy and blameless and beyond reproach. That is, all people who believe in Christ as Savior are Holy, blameless and beyond reproach.
Being a Baptist has nothing to do with it. I'm a Baptist, and I agree with it because the Bible says it.
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posted on
10/18/2012 7:50:30 AM PDT
by
righttackle44
( I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine . . .)
To: SoFloFreeper
If Jesus Christ came down (as he will someday) and personally declared that he was just as okay with Mormons as he was with Baptists, Lutherans and any other denomination which worshiped him, there would be a certain crowd who would immediately denounce him as a sellout and claim he was Unchristian.
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posted on
10/18/2012 8:05:29 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: RochesterNYconservative
In all fairness, the Evangelicals called Catholicism a cult as well. No they don't, are you saying that Catholics are grouped with the cults at the site?
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posted on
10/18/2012 8:52:56 AM PDT
by
ansel12
To: Vigilanteman
False, Jesus will not reject Christianity and the bible.
All Christian denominations Orthodox, Protestant, Catholic, agree that Mormonism is not a Christian religion, or part of Christianity, but that it is a different religion, made up by Joseph Smith.
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posted on
10/18/2012 8:56:52 AM PDT
by
ansel12
To: SoFloFreeper
Romney’s Mormonism doesn’t matter a whit to me.
His liberalism, however, does.
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posted on
10/18/2012 9:00:14 AM PDT
by
Colonel_Flagg
("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
To: TexasFreeper2009
My own thought is this. Mormon theology is not Christian theology. The question, in my mind, is” can a Mormon come to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ despite the erroneous beliefs that he has about Him?
I don't know. I tend to believe not, but I hope that he can. I leave that to God, and advise all to examine closely the claims of Christ; be they Mormons, Scientologists, JW’s, or any member of other non-Christian religions.
But, if you choose othewise, that's between you and God.
In the meantime, here on this fallen world, the choice is not between Jesus and Obama, but between Mitt and Obama. Any vote but a vote for Mitt is a vote for Obama.
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posted on
10/18/2012 9:10:26 AM PDT
by
chesley
(Vast deserts of political ignorance makes liberalism possible - James Lewis)
To: Augustinian monk
We are electing a secular official, not a theologian. To a muslim there's a difference, you think?
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posted on
10/18/2012 6:17:40 PM PDT
by
grellis
(I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
To: grellis
No. Because Islam is more of an ideology than a personal faith. Its a form of nationalism for the Arab world with anti-western themes. That’s why obama hearts it.
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posted on
10/19/2012 7:35:42 AM PDT
by
Augustinian monk
(People ask me 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' Why pray if he isn't?- Michael Horton)
To: grellis
No. Islam is more of an ideology than a personal faith. It’s a form of nationalism for the middle east with anti-western themes. That’s why obama hearts it so.
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posted on
10/19/2012 7:37:21 AM PDT
by
Augustinian monk
(People ask me 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' Why pray if he isn't?- Michael Horton)
To: GoldenPup
As America's pastor for the past half century, Eh???
Dude was never my pastor, in any sense of the word.
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posted on
10/19/2012 7:42:53 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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