Next up on CNN; Franklin Graham explaining God's role in the Japan tragedy.

[AngryOldDem]

See ya, going out for a run now...

:hi:

[CanonRay]

1. Who books these idiots, anyway?

Just what we need, the flying spaghetti monster perspective. Query: Did God create Plutonium? If so, why?

[SpiralHawk]

2. RepubliCorp - CNN division

[peekaloo]

3. It's not the Land of the Rising Son. (God's confused-ed)

:eyes:

[Fumesucker]

5. It's not God that's confused, His self professed fan club on the other hand.. n/t

[peekaloo]

10. Yep. But He is created in their own image(s).

:-)

[DrDan]

4. they are sending a plane load of aid - they have aid-workers on the ground

sending another plane next week if necessary.

Sounds like a decent effort - regardless of who initiates it.

[AngryOldDem]

17. As long as there are no strings attached to the aid.

A lot of fundamentalist groups proselytize.

[DrDan]

23. as long as they are feeding the hungry and helping the injured

sort it out later

[Le Taz Hot]

21. Doesn't the Bible state somewhere

that you're not supposed to announce your good works? I suppose that goes by the wayside when there's free publicity to be gained.

[DrDan]

22. putting food on the plates of the hungry and bringing fhealth aid should be our primarry concern

whether from the Chinese, Christians, Gays, blondes or anyone else.

[FeelingBlue]

6. Check out his record.

This guy is for real. I appreciate the name of his organization: Samaritan's Purse. The organization really does act as the Good Samaritan we all wish would be there, right in the middle of the pain.

[LuvNewcastle]

9. Does the purse come with matching shoes?

[Old and In the Way]

11. As long as it doesn't come with missionary-like strings attached,

I agree. I don't like to see tragedies on this scale used to push a religious agenda on the people who have an entirely different religious culture. I doubt we'd appreciate a similar quid pro quo where Japanese aid is accompanied with a pitch for conversion to Shintoism.

[highplainsdem]

13. Franklin Graham makes a lot of money off Samaritan's Purse.

As this article explains

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2009/10/07/990049/franklin-grahams-ceo-pay-draws.html

he's being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse, for what are both supposedly full-time positions.

Concerns about his rising financial compensation during tough economic times have prompted evangelist Franklin Graham to temporarily give up future contributions to his retirement plans at the two charities he leads.

As president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse, he receives two full-time salaries and two retirement packages. Last year his total compensation from the two Christian ministries was $1.2 million.

The size of Graham's total 2008 compensation – $535,000 from Samaritan's Purse and $669,000 from Charlotte-based BGEA – drew questions from non-profit experts interviewed by the Observer. They doubted that one person – even the energetic, globe-trotting Graham – can do two full-time jobs leading organizations that employ hundreds and spend hundreds of millions around the world.

As head of the Boone-based Samaritan's Purse, Graham earned more last year than any other leader of an international relief agency based in the United States. That includes eight with larger budgets, according to data compiled by Guidestar, a group that monitors non-profits.

That article is from 2009, but I haven't found anything about him now making less from this charity.

I suppose he'd argue that charity begins at home.

[old mark]

16. "God helps those who help themselves..." and this guy certainly is helping himself with

both hands!


mark

[PA Democrat]

25. Graham: a good Samaritan or a grifter?

I vote for grifter.

[msongs]

18. was the original good samaritan a vicious racist &gay basher who fleeced his flock? nt

[dgibby]

19. He's despicable.

He insisted on burying his mother at the Billy Graham "Library"(read money-making side show) against her wishes and those of her other children. He father will also be buried there, hopefully AFTER he dies, but I wouldn't trust Franklin if there's a dollar in it. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him and I wouldn't spit on him if his pants were on fire.:grr:

[fascisthunter]

27. he's a whack job.... go luck trying to convince others

[thereismore]

7. Fuck him and the whore of Babylon he came in riding on. nt

[truebrit71]

12. x2

...what a stupid, stupid, STUPID segment..

[malaise]

8. I won't watch but I assume that

it's as 'made up' as most off CNN's news!
These corporate fuggers would take us back to the dark ages given half a chance.

[Motown_Johnny]

14. I guess God wants the entire world to turn against nuclear energy

Otherwise he would have spared these reactors his wrath



Right?!?!? :shrug:



Ya know, sometimes God is kinda hard for me to figure out.

[spanone]

15. i'd rather have god on explaining franklin grahams role in anything

[golddigger]

20. Oh For Fuck Sakes!

[RussBLib]

24. Just STFU

when are we going to get over this invisible god fixation? It is strictly for undeveloped minds, and if we continue to cut education ...

[fascisthunter]

26. CNN proves it is a joke... interviews to the highest bidders

especially if they are right wing whackos.