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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBilly Graham's daughter: 'God is using coronavirus to turn us away from secularism'
In an op-ed published in Charisma News this Saturday, Christian evangelist and daughter of the legendary evangelist Billy Graham, Anne Graham Lotz, wrote that there may be a silver lining to the growing coronavirus outbreak.
Lotz writes that the black cloud of the coronavirus has enveloped our nation, and seems to be obliterating our view of freedom, of peace, of happiness. As she prayed on the matter, Lotz says he had a vision from the Old Testament showing the recently freed Israelite slaves as they were camped at the base of Mount Sinai.
God spoke to Moses, the man He had used to liberate the people from bondage in Egypt, she writes. The Lord said He would come in a thick cloud to Moses. The Bible then goes on to describe the thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud.
According to Lotz, that thick cloud has manifested itself today in the form of the coronavirus.
https://deadstate.org/billy-grahams-daughter-god-is-using-coronavirus-to-turn-us-away-from-secularism/
Trying to put the fear of God in people.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,676 posts)Maeve
(42,281 posts)I've about had it with folks claiming they know what God thinks when they obviously have no relationship with a loving deity (the one they claim to worship) or even a concept of what such a being would be like.
delisen
(6,042 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)🤮🤮🤮
malaise
(268,943 posts)Butterflylady
(3,542 posts)Does she look in the mirror before she leaves the house?
I just want to know how is that god gives them visions and not the atheists. One would think that atheists are the ones he's trying to get thru to. Myself I'm an agnostic and I've never a vision from anyone.
VMA131Marine
(4,138 posts)They never let a good crisis go to waste.
hatrack
(59,584 posts)I remember him!!
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)JDC
(10,127 posts)TygrBright
(20,758 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)leftieNanner
(15,082 posts)In drag?
Scary looking broad, and I do not use that term lightly.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)enid602
(8,614 posts)Her face looks like a death rattle.
ornotna
(10,799 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)MineralMan
(146,286 posts)If there were a deity, it would be giving them a fatal case of that disease. Since that is not happening, it's more evidence that no such entity exists.
Lulu KC
(2,565 posts)I mean, I know that our monitors can change skin color, but seriously? Oranger than orange!
MineralMan
(146,286 posts)rickford66
(5,523 posts)MineralMan
(146,286 posts)Butterflylady
(3,542 posts)Chiyo-chichi
(3,579 posts)Iggo
(47,549 posts)Yikes!
Walleye
(31,009 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)Made me laugh.
We must share a sense of humor.
BittyJenkins
(409 posts)gibraltar72
(7,503 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,278 posts)eliminate the money-changers like the Graham kids, Robertson, etc, from the Temple.
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)malaise
(268,943 posts)Seriously?
jls4561
(1,257 posts)Though to be fair, she does do a better job of blending.
I cannot express how deep my loathing is of southern babtists. (No, spellcheck, I always type babtists.)
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)What a tightly clenched grimace.
Dare I say that that face and expression just might scare a virus even?
Has she done any horror movies? I mean, save the makeup crew some time.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)She is full of it.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am pretty convinced that what is on the inside shows on the outside. These people wouldn't know what kindness was if it bit them on the ass.
delisen
(6,042 posts)The Nixon tapes in the Oval Office revealed her dad Billy Graham to be a dreadful anti-semite, nastily disparaging Jewish people.
I think a better analogy she could make is that of Moses coming down from Mt. Sinai to find half of the Israelites worshipping a Golden Calf or Mammon. He then had the money-worshippers slaughtered on the spot.
No Promised Land for the cult worshippers of the Golden Calf.
TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts).
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Dan
(3,550 posts)Id give up sex.
SKKY
(11,804 posts)What I find odd about Evangelicals is that they immediately jump to this being the Lord's indictment against a secular society, or this being our punishment for living in an unholy manner. They never look at the mirror and say, "You know, is this my penalty for amassing millions and millions of dollars? For supporting and defending a known rapist and philanderer? Or is this due to the fact that I personally don't believe in offering shelter and comfort to strangers and foreigners?"
chomper
(113 posts)Kaleva
(36,294 posts)mindem
(1,580 posts)All they are doing is damage.
lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)P T Barnum would be proud.
Turbineguy
(37,319 posts)This is what they must call "a Babe" in hell.
Varaddem
(432 posts)The evangelicals would be fine with the destruction of our government and our society. My evangelical neighbor hates anything Government run from his clean drinking water to free meals for poor kids.
Joinfortmill
(14,417 posts)msongs
(67,395 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,515 posts)to punish the world for our transgressions.
I'm sick to death of these people.
niyad
(113,265 posts)change their minds. Truly monstrous. Such is the vision of haters like you. That vengeful, hateful, murderous, monstrous creature is YOUR sick and twisted fever dream.
Do us humans a favour and crawl back into the cesspool and SHUT UP! My ears are bleeding.
Botany
(70,496 posts)Do I have to add this?
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)Right now.
How long has he been dead?
yonder
(9,663 posts)raccoon
(31,110 posts)Chainfire
(17,531 posts)All of the deaths in Italy, a country that is more than 85% Christians? I have to assume that around 85% of the deaths are Christians too.....
You just have to sigh, roll your eyes, shake your head and move on.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,975 posts)Lithos
(26,403 posts)This is a sign from God to stop the worship of Mammon as done by the fake Evangelicals and Conservatives who hide behind his name.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)Sounding overarchingly vague and convenient for virtually any dire event during the course of history. What a divinely inspired observation. For any future re-make of "The Wizard of Oz", this woman would be a shoo-in for a key role. She's obviously good at melting down and certainly has the looks and disposition. The real deal perhaps? Someone fetch a glass of water!
GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)same shade as The Donald and just as unattractive.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Yeah. And that wig, so 50s.
jmowreader
(50,555 posts)Why do all right-wing zealots suck at makeup?
Permanut
(5,602 posts)God spoke to Moses, the man He had used to liberate the people from bondage in Egypt, she writes. The Lord said He would come in a thick cloud to Moses. The Bible then goes on to describe the thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud.
So that event, And the parting of the Red Sea, and the destruction of the Egyptian army, all that miraculous stuff, must be documented in Egyptian records of the time, right, Anne? Oh, wait, they're not?