[Mamzelle]

Do you mean to imply that the Samaritan's Purse, with its long charitable history, is equivalent to Hezbollah? Their charity is what they believe, and that charity is its own validation. Having faced physical danger, Graham is entitled to a lot of credibility.

Maybe you're just Baptist-bashing?

[Illbay]

You said:

Franklin's members put their lives on the line regularly, so I doubt they'd be too impressed with you.

Franklin's wife is also quite courageous, and supported his achievements.

And that's what I was responding to. A willingness to put one's life on the line, courage and support for achievements are in and of themselves neither "good" nor "bad."

Their approbation depends upon the cause to which they are put. I used the radical Islamists as an example. Their members also put their lives on the line, etc., but in an evil cause.

Graham is contemptuous of the traditional faith of these people. He goes to them, not hoping to show them a higher truth, but to save them from something that is "very evil and very wicked."

I'm telling you right now, that attitude has the potential to cause a great deal of harm in that part of the world, possibly even more harm than the good he might bring.

If I were Pres. Bush, I'd make sure that disruptive people like Graham were excluded.

[AppyPappy]

Illbay says stuff just to get a rise. If he doesn't get one, he just ramps up the rhetoric. You have to learn to ignore it sometimes.