Now Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham has weighed in, appealing to fundamentalists sense of persecution and superiority. He got dis-invited to a Pentagon prayer breakfast because he’s said some really intolerant and hateful things about Islam, and some Muslim chaplains, and soldiers objected. I think all religions are bunk, but can you imagine if some American Imam had said hateful and intolerant things about Christianity, but was invited to speak at the Pentagon? The Christianists would be screaming and demanding he be dis-invited. But I digress. Here’s the latest bit of fear mongering.
In an interview with Newsmax Television, Graham was asked if he though there was a “pattern of hostility to traditional Christianity by the Obama administration.”
“I don’t know if it’s exactly from President Obama,” Graham responded, “but I’m certain that some of the men around him are very much opposed to what we stand for and what we believe.”
Graham continued, “It seems as though Muslims are getting a pass”
Rev. Graham was then asked by the host about mounting “secular oppression” in the United States.
“No question, it’s coming,” Graham says. “I think when you preach that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the light, I think we’re going to see, one day, people will say this is hate speech.”
The reverend described his removal from the Pentagon prayer service program as “a slap at all Evangelical Christian.”
He then concluded by talking about how much he loved his Muslim brothers and sisters, but the only way to come to god was, of course, his way.
Bleh.
