Franklin Graham: 10 Republicans 'promised' something for impeachment vote; calls for minister's

[TexasTowelie]

Franklin Graham: 10 Republicans 'promised' something for impeachment vote; calls for minister's removal


Evangelist minister Franklin Graham is facing calls for his removal for statements supporting former President Donald Trump's actions before and after the deadly Capitol riot, including that Republicans backing impeachment were "promised" something.

In a Jan. 14 Facebook post, Graham, who was born in Asheville and educated in Western North Carolina, said "shame, shame on the ten Republicans who joined with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in impeaching President Trump yesterday."

"It makes you wonder what the thirty pieces of silver were that Speaker Pelosi promised for this betrayal," he said in the post that drew 65,000 comments, many critical.

A spokeswoman for Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina, the only southerner among the impeachment-backing Republicans, did not return a Jan. 20 message asking about Franklin comparing him to Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus Christ, according to the Bible's New Testament, or saying he was given something in exchange for his vote.

Read more: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2021/01/21/franklin-graham-10-republicans-promised-something-impeachment-vote/4229987001/
(Asheville Citizen-Times)

[KY_EnviroGuy]

1. Graham, like many of the Bible's fictitious characters, is drunk on power.

Revoke all tax exemptions for Graham's organizations for preaching politics from the pulpit....

[Rebl2]

27. No large

church organizations should be totally tax exempt. Smaller churches are a different matter. So many smaller churches in my area are struggling to stay open and some have closed. Many of these small churches population are elderly and can’t give very much to the church.

[Progressive Jones]

2. Bible metaphors only fool a small percentage of Americans. nt

[panader0]

3. So to Graham Cracker, Trump is Jesus Christ?

Are Franklin and Lindsey related?

[mezame]

4. Related

[panader0]

8. Welcome to DU!

[niyad]

17. Welcome to our DU family.

[oasis]

5. Disgraced Grifter Graham needs to crawl back under his rock. nt

[MyOwnPeace]

21. They threw him out......

WHY is ANYBODY covering him, listening to him, or writing about him?
He's DONE - FINISHED - WASHED UP - KAPUT - OUT'A HERE!!!!!!!!!

STOP IT NOW!!!!!!!!

You're giving him the oxygen he needs to keep going in his evil ways. Leave him alone in his pile of garbage!

Oh, did I say I'm talking about Franklin Graham?

Perhaps you thought I was talking about Trump, huh?


PS: I wouldn't be mad if you added Ricky Santorum to that list...

[marble falls]

6. It's pretty hard to take the word of a "man of gawd" who is involved whatever it is that ...

... is going on with his "marriage", very seriously.

[Tommymac]

7. They have been snakeoil salespeople for 60 years or more.

All of them including his Father.

Sorry Evangelicals - you all have been fooled for generations. Ignorance and superstition are not winning plays for a modern society.

Fuck your speaking in fake made up tongues. Fuck your fake miracle cures. Fuck your insincere concern. Fuck You.

Grow up, or throw up and shut up.

Your 'movement' is the spawn of your Satan. You are all heretical idiots.

And grifters too.

[GopherGal]

28. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel...

implies that there is at least one earlier refuge...

It sometimes seems religion is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Another RWNJ infected with paranoia

Who could have guessed?

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Maybe, Frankie, It Was The Promise of Heaven

Because you & the rest of the nay voters are going the other way, and don't blame me.
It's your fairy tale!

[black-bear]

11. Return to roots

Time for Christianity to return to it's original spiritual roots.

[GulfCoast66]

13. Paganism? That works for me.

[niyad]

18. Thank you. Beat me to it!

[tanyev]

12. You OK with Trump threatening lawmakers over their impeachment vote, Franklin?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[Oppaloopa]

14. He is not like his father who admitted he made a big mistake in supporting Richard Nixon.

His wife told senior not to get involved in politics. Mrs Graham even quoted scripture to him regarding this. He disagreed with her.

[keithbvadu2]

15. Pat Robertson, Franklin Graham and their ilk are CBR - Cash Based Religion.

Pat Robertson, Franklin Graham and their ilk are CBR - Cash Based Religion.

Judas was an early, modern-day, conservative disciple.

Judas got 30 pieces of silver, but just once, for selling Christ.

Franklin Graham, Jim Bakker and their ilk get millions of dollars repeatedly for selling Christ.

Judas was a fool for doing a one-time sale.

[Ilsa]

20. BTW, if you have HBO, there is a series

with HBO Europe in Spanish called 30 Monedas. It is a horror story, but centers around the secret recovery of the thirty pieces of silver by either the Roman Catholic church, or a group headed by Satan. The evil group's existence centers on an idea that God required Satan to rebel, because good requires an opposite, evil, for humans to have free will.

The horror part of it has been well done, without scaring or grossing me out too much. Excellent acting, a good, intricate plot.

"Judas was a fool for doing a one-time sale." Pretty much. Bakkers, Graham, Falwells, etc have done well monetizing what they say they believe.

[keithbvadu2]

23. Some of Trump's Christians consider Catholics a Satanic group.

Some of Trump's Christians consider Catholics a Satanic group.

https://www.newsweek.com/did-satan-create-catholicism-trump-supporting-pastor-robert-jeffress-thinks-so-690176

Did Satan Create Catholicism? Trump-Supporting Pastor Robert Jeffress Thinks So

[Ilsa]

24. I'm surprised Jeffress has made it as far as he has.

FBC Dallas must must be full of kooks. I thought most southern Baptists were closer to reasonable.

[catbyte]

16. What a vile piece of work. Apparently he forgot that Commandment about worshiping false idols.

[tiptonic]

19. Separation

What ever happened, to the theory of separation of state and religion? Plus why don't they have to pay taxes. They are all a bunch of 'freeloaders'.

[lindysalsagal]

22. Dinosaurs are gone, icecaps melted, the earth is round

And the earth rotates around the sun. Oh, yeah, and nobody needs stone-age superstitions running their governments.

[LastDemocratInSC]

25. There are used car dealers and used myth dealers.

Graham deals in used myths but his style and substance are perfect for the car lot, too.

[sarcasmo]

26. Tax the churches, enough of them preaching politics tax free.

[nolabear]

29. Do the rest of you get those damned Franklin Graham TV ads?

Here he’s literally on a Seattle street, going on about the city and something something something let’s pray, and literally launches into a prayer with the phone number for the $rayer Line underneath. I mute it every time because being prayed over is an old nightmare of mine.

Is it just here?

[Javaman]

30. so graham...how's the pool boy? nt

[RANDYWILDMAN]

31. This guy and his daddy, total dirtbags

raising money their whole lives under the name of the holy and almighty.

Modern day snake oil salesmen.