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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:03 PM Mar 2020

Billy 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.
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Billy Graham's daughter: 'God is using coronavirus to turn us away from secularism' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2020 OP
Now we know what a Mrs. Voldemort would have looked like. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1
Agree! Maeve Mar 2020 #6
Claiming to speak for God is actually the sin of blasphemy. delisen Mar 2020 #53
NO KIDDING! SheltieLover Mar 2020 #28
ROFL malaise Mar 2020 #41
Now that's funny. Butterflylady Mar 2020 #50
These are evil people. VMA131Marine Mar 2020 #2
Oh, wow - it's Ted Levine - the guy who played Buffalo Bill in "Silence Of The Lambs"! hatrack Mar 2020 #3
no words. well, except fuck off, asshole NRaleighLiberal Mar 2020 #4
That picture could not be more fitting. JDC Mar 2020 #5
Wow. That's one ASSHOLE god she believes in. I like mine a LOT better. n/t TygrBright Mar 2020 #7
That's some chiseled good looks there. Baked Potato Mar 2020 #8
Franklin? leftieNanner Mar 2020 #17
I agree, the Polyethylene hair eeek Baked Potato Mar 2020 #55
Death rattle enid602 Apr 2020 #67
Define good ornotna Mar 2020 #54
Point taken Baked Potato Mar 2020 #57
Damn them all! They're using this to enrich themselves. MineralMan Mar 2020 #9
What a picture! Lulu KC Mar 2020 #10
That is not a handsome woman! MineralMan Mar 2020 #11
or man rickford66 Mar 2020 #31
Well, it has a long platinum wig, but other than that... MineralMan Mar 2020 #34
Yeah, that has got be a wig. Butterflylady Mar 2020 #51
100%. And a cheap one at that. Chiyo-chichi Mar 2020 #62
Jeezus! A little warning for those of us who've never seen her before! Iggo Mar 2020 #12
So this is supposed to make me love god?? Walleye Mar 2020 #13
Yeah, I want tyo go to a church that willfully exposes me to a virus to prove I am a Christian. TheBlackAdder Mar 2020 #14
Gracious. It's Pestilence, one of the 4 horsemen, in a Barbie wig! These are strange times indeed! Squinch Mar 2020 #15
Ok tavernier Mar 2020 #43
. Squinch Mar 2020 #47
Look at her eyes! She is a demon with a microphone! nt BittyJenkins Mar 2020 #16
She looks almost as loving and caring as Betsy Tenyots. gibraltar72 Mar 2020 #18
Conversely, God could be using it to DeminPennswoods Mar 2020 #19
Anne Graham Lotz Says God Sends Terror Attacks Because Of Bathroom Rights And Evolution dalton99a Mar 2020 #20
What the hell? SheltieLover Mar 2020 #30
Is this shit real? malaise Mar 2020 #45
She is really orange! Think tRump sent her a case of that makeup he uses? jls4561 Mar 2020 #48
My! Newest Reality Mar 2020 #21
Horse Hockey Sherman A1 Mar 2020 #22
What an evil looking woman. smirkymonkey Mar 2020 #23
Anne Graham is fishing for Dollars not souls or salvation delisen Mar 2020 #24
They're amongst us! TheBlackAdder Mar 2020 #25
Boy, if I was married to her Dan Mar 2020 #26
She's "handsome". Looking at her, I can tell what her brothers might look like. SKKY Mar 2020 #27
+1 Kaleva Mar 2020 #38
You got it! Totally agree with you here. chomper Mar 2020 #40
She's got her oral game face on. Kaleva Mar 2020 #29
These people really need to shut up. mindem Mar 2020 #32
These dipshits can rationalize anything. lpbk2713 Mar 2020 #33
Wow! Turbineguy Mar 2020 #35
I truly believe Varaddem Mar 2020 #36
He raised some nitwits. Joinfortmill Mar 2020 #37
loving god murders masses of people. true believers celebrate. ugly nt msongs Mar 2020 #39
Yeah, yeah, yeah. When all else fails, blame us sinners for forcing your loving gawd Arkansas Granny Mar 2020 #42
Annie, dear, delusional Annie. . .your deity is a fucking psychopath. Killing people does not niyad Mar 2020 #44
Funny she looks like such a sweet lady. Botany Mar 2020 #46
She looks like her dad looks. Ilsa Mar 2020 #49
Nice wig. yonder Mar 2020 #52
She looks like a dragon. Nt raccoon Mar 2020 #56
How does she explain Chainfire Mar 2020 #58
They're not Christians, they're CATHOLICS. Every SoBaptist knows that! bobbieinok Mar 2020 #64
What a sick fuck! 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 2020 #59
Perhaps a truer statement Lithos Mar 2020 #60
A one-size-fits-all black cloud? Zambero Mar 2020 #61
Interesting ... GeorgeGist Mar 2020 #63
Wow. If she gets another face lift, I wonder where the skin to stretch will come from. Blue_true Mar 2020 #65
Riddle me this, Batman... jmowreader Mar 2020 #66
That "thick cloud" thing.. Permanut Apr 2020 #68

Maeve

(42,281 posts)
6. Agree!
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:07 PM
Mar 2020

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.

Butterflylady

(3,542 posts)
50. Now that's funny.
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:57 PM
Mar 2020

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.

MineralMan

(146,286 posts)
9. Damn them all! They're using this to enrich themselves.
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:10 PM
Mar 2020

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.

DeminPennswoods

(15,278 posts)
19. Conversely, God could be using it to
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:16 PM
Mar 2020

eliminate the money-changers like the Graham kids, Robertson, etc, from the Temple.

jls4561

(1,257 posts)
48. She is really orange! Think tRump sent her a case of that makeup he uses?
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:41 PM
Mar 2020

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)
21. My!
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:17 PM
Mar 2020

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.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
23. What an evil looking woman.
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:19 PM
Mar 2020

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)
24. Anne Graham is fishing for Dollars not souls or salvation
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:19 PM
Mar 2020

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.

SKKY

(11,804 posts)
27. She's "handsome". Looking at her, I can tell what her brothers might look like.
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:21 PM
Mar 2020

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?"

Varaddem

(432 posts)
36. I truly believe
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:29 PM
Mar 2020

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.

Arkansas Granny

(31,515 posts)
42. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When all else fails, blame us sinners for forcing your loving gawd
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:37 PM
Mar 2020

to punish the world for our transgressions.

I'm sick to death of these people.

niyad

(113,265 posts)
44. Annie, dear, delusional Annie. . .your deity is a fucking psychopath. Killing people does not
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 03:37 PM
Mar 2020

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.

Chainfire

(17,531 posts)
58. How does she explain
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 04:18 PM
Mar 2020

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.

Lithos

(26,403 posts)
60. Perhaps a truer statement
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 04:28 PM
Mar 2020

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)
61. A one-size-fits-all black cloud?
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 04:32 PM
Mar 2020

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!

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
65. Wow. If she gets another face lift, I wonder where the skin to stretch will come from.
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:29 PM
Mar 2020

Yeah. And that wig, so 50s.

Permanut

(5,602 posts)
68. That "thick cloud" thing..
Tue Apr 7, 2020, 01:53 PM
Apr 2020

“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?
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