Posted on 04/05/2021 8:37:09 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
Evangelical leader Franklin Graham believes Americans should get the COVID-19 vaccine. The missionary told CBS News that he thinks Jesus would want people to get their shots, and he's turning to Scripture and the parable of the Good Samaritan to make his case.
It's a case that will need to be made clearly if evangelicals — perhaps the most under-discussed group with high levels of vaccine hesitancy — can be persuaded.
"Jesus does tell the story of a man that was beaten and robbed and left for dead on the side of a road, and religious leaders walked past him and did not have compassion, they didn't get involved. But a Samaritan had compassion," Graham told CBS News in an interview. "And he immediately bandaged — he put oil and wine on his wounds and took him to an inn, and paid to have him cared for. Now the oil and wine were the medicines of that day… The vaccine is, to me, I believe, is saving life, and that's what Jesus Christ would want us to do, to help save life. It's just a tool to help save life."
Graham, the son of the late evangelist Billy Graham and grandson of a medical missionary in China, noted that the church has a long tradition of using medicine to help others. Last week, he told his 9 million Facebook followers that his international relief charity, Samaritan's Purse, had seen human suffering from COVID-19 "first-hand," and encouraged people to "talk to their doctor, and pray about it to determine which vaccine, if any, is right for them."
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Substitute “Hail Landru Are you one with the Body?”,
Star Trek “Return of the Archons”, and you have remarkably close metaphor for this vaccine push.
The more evil is revealed, the more horrified I am about the depths of it and the more I see how much people are going to be answerable for it.
God has pretty strong words a out those who harm children. It will not go well for them.
I think Franklin Graham has spent so much time out of USA, and working in fields of ministry, that he is just not informed of truth, and trusts our government more than he should! Sad.
So he’s given up on individual soul liberty and gone off the deep end. He knows better than that.
Our Samaritan’s Purse donations now will go elsewhere.
“ he is just not informed of truth, and trusts our government more than he should! Sad.”
True on FR republic too.
Sorry about your Father-in-Law and neighbors!
This whole thing is like driving down an unmarked highway...No way to know what might be ahead with either the vaccine or the virus :(
Another Freeper lost a family member last week.
Praying for all Freepers and our Country every night.
Any modicum of trust I had in the past for the government has been totally annihilated.
It’s now to the *Whatever they say, do the opposite* stage for me.
It was a family member’s FIL.
There are many unknowns. Will our blood supply be affected by inoculated donors. Who know?
PSALM 91 is GOD’S umbrella of protection. Keep praying.
Will our blood supply be affected by inoculated donors. Who know?
Thank you for PSALM 91 reference.
Thanks.
Another reason not to take the vaccine. Could the Covid serum in an inoculated person result in a deadly covid cocktail when mixed with other vaccines?
I have a life changing auto-immune disease that is the direct result of a vaccination.
Research anthrax and soldiers.
Vaccines should not be given on a whim. I respect Franklin Graham, however I do not think he has a thorough understanding of this experimental vaccine.
BTW Most soldiers' diseases did not manifest for a couple of years after vaccination.
+1
Flying without one is tempting GOD, not getting a vaccine for a bug that is slightly worse than a flus is trusting GOD.
I never said that. My point is more to those whose fear is beyond logic.
My wife had it, I never got hot. She had no symptoms and never knew she had it.
Yup
We’re considered ‘a threat’ for not getting the jab now.
WEF globalist Klaus Schwab declares unvaccinated people to be a threat to humanity
They’ll be coming after those of us who don’t get this suicide vaccine pretty soon.
Perilous times are here.
Except that for the vaccinated, we pose no threat at all.
So why the vaccinated care about those of us who aren’t is beyond me.
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