From: Mac
Like this guy said:
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
Posted on 04/23/2010 8:20:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Army rescinded its invitation to Franklin Graham to speak at the Pentagon for the National Day of Prayer over concerns about his remarks about Islam.
Army spokesman Col. Tom Collins said Thursday that Graham’s comments about Islam were “not appropriate.”
"We're an all-inclusive military," Collins said, according to The Associated Press. "We honor all faiths. ... Our message to our service and civilian work force is about the need for diversity and appreciation of all faiths."
Graham is under fire for past comments he made about Islam. He called Islam a “very evil and wicked religion” after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and more recently made disparaging remarks about the Muslim faith in an interview with CNN’s Campbell Brown in December 2009.
“True Islam cannot be practiced in this country,” Graham said to Brown. “You can’t beat your wife. You cannot murder your children if you think they’ve committed adultery or something like that, which they do practice in these other countries.”
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, on behalf of Muslim military personnel and defense department staff, demanded in a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates that Graham be disinvited as a speaker at the prayer event. The group took issue with his comments on Islam and his ties to conservative Christian group the National Day of Prayer Task Force.
Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, is the co-honorary chair of the task force.
Earlier this week, Collins noted that the military was not responsible for inviting Graham to speak at the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer event. The National Day of Prayer Task Force and the Pentagon chaplain’s office had invited him.
Graham, though still standing by his earlier remarks, has tried to clarify and soften his tone by saying he has Muslim friends and loves the people of Islam. The humanitarian group he heads, Samaritan’s Purse, works in some predominantly Muslim countries.
“It’s (Muslim world) a part of the world I love very much,” Graham said, according to CNN. “And I understand it. But I certainly disagree with their teaching.”
Graham has met several times with Sudan’s notorious Muslim president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the leader who is widely held to be responsible for the Darfur genocide. Despite believing that Islam is an “evil and wicked” religion, Graham said he meets with Bashir in hopes of leading him to Christ.
In response to withdrawal of the invitation, Graham said he regrets the Army’s decision and he would continue to pray for the military troops.
The fallout between Graham and the Army is the latest controversy surrounding the National Day of Prayer. Last week, a federal judge in Wisconsin ruled that the prayer day is unconstitutional because it amounts to a call for religious action.
Lawmakers and Christian groups have called on President Obama to direct the Justice Department to appeal the decision. The Obama administration said Thursday it will appeal.
The 59th annual National Day of Prayer will be observed on May 6. President Obama said he still intends to issue a proclamation this year to recognize the prayer day.
Bookmarked!
Is the Army really having services to mark the National Day of Prayer in the first place? I heard a judge ruled the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.
Yeah. We leftists are highly supportive of Islamic terrorists who murder American soldiers on US army bases!!
or this country!
I have major problems with Obomba’s comments about CHRISTIANITY....can we DROP HIM????
I have problems with his whole administration and Congress - let’s drop them all in NOVEMBER and beyond. I am sick of the PC progressives trying to ruin America. I’m thinking,Jehovah God is not happy with America at present.
I heard a judge ruled the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.
If I recall correctly, he did, but did withheld a ban on up-coming events.
I heard a judge ruled the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.
If I recall correctly, he did, but withheld a ban on up-coming events, pending appeals.
man...how far we have tumbled
attending church as a lad in the 60s and gazing out the sunday school class window in spring wishing i were fishing or roaming the woods off in the distance or looking at other churches across town realizing my buddies were temporarily entrapped there as well....and thinking I had forever to live..lol
i never figured my nation would collapse so fast and so disgustingly...the future looked so bright for all of us then...people were happier and more optimistic
things now look dirty and ironic and jaded....and past tense
am I the only one?
poor kids here never knew another reality...America and our culture once stood for something optimistic.......it was not a myth
now we live under a tyranny of all the fringes of the culture
"The one thing that history teaches us is that history teaches us nothing..."
This seems like a re-run of the first century. Christians were persecuted by the Romans not because they professed belief in Christ as God the Son, and Saviour. The Romans were OK with many gods and Religions.
What they hated about the Christians was that they said that Belief in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour was the only way to Salvation.
The Christians said that all the other gods were false.
The Romans were fine with "...diversity and appreciation of all faiths." It was the 'obnoxious' position of the Christians that the God of the Bible was the only God, and that Christ was the only way, that the Romans hated...
And so the Pentagon takes the position of First Century pagan Rome...
When the next one goes crazy like the nut at Fort Hood, the people who made this decision should be tried for murder as well. Placate, placate, what ever happened to common sense ! We continue to mock God and everything this country once stood for. I believe there is a real eye-opener down the road for us.
"If God doesn't soon bring judgment upon America,shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
He'll have to go back and apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah!"
“Army Spokesman Tom Collins...”
It sounds as though this jackass has drunk one Tom Collins too many....
"It's (Muslim world) a part of the world I love very much," Graham said, according to CNN. "And I understand it. But I certainly disagree with their teaching."
You may find this helpful also: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/JESUS.Vs.Muhammad.html
DEMOCRACY THROUGH CHRISTIANITY
MacArthur pondered Showa conversion
By MIKIO HARUNA
Kyodo News
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander during the Allied Occupation of Japan, once considered attempting to convert Emperor Showa to Christianity, a diary of the U.S. secretary of the Navy shows.
In his diary, James Forrestal wrote that during his meeting with MacArthur in Tokyo on July 10, 1946, the general said he had “given some consideration” to persuading the Emperor to convert but thought it would need a “good deal of reflection and consideration before it could be carried out.”
Kyodo News obtained a copy of the diary, which was found at the library of Princeton University, Forrestal’s alma mater in New Jersey. The author later became the first U.S. secretary of defense, a post created in 1947.
MacArthur’s idea of spreading Christianity in Japan by having the Emperor change his religion probably stemmed from the general’s belief that democracy arises from Christian principles, according to Ray Moore, a professor of Japanese history at Amherst College, in Massachusetts, who described MacArthur as a “19th century man. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20000504b7.html
A devout Episcopalian, MacArthur said to a visiting group of evangelicals that “Japan is a spiritual vacuum. If you do not fill it with Christianity, it will be filled with Communism. Send me 1,000 missionaries.” He asked U.S. missionary societies to send “Bibles, Bibles and more Bibles.”
There are good Muslims in the military.
But they would be considered apostates by most Muslims.
Remember, it is only the 70% which make the remaining 30% look bad.
Hey, Col.Tom Collins: Major Hassan thanks you for the all-inclusive and diverse policies you so vigorously defend.
From: Mac
Like this guy said:
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
How did America become so blind?
Never mind ... I really DO know.
Jesus is no longer welcome except in the lives of the remnant ... it's just a matter of time when He who lets will no longer be here.
This is a disgrace. Rev. Graham is one of the most highly respected Christian preachers in the country. His father is a living legend, and he has a son serving in Afghanistan. The Army should be ashamed (though I have no doubt this came direct from their CIC)
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