Franklin Graham: Satan Behind Virginia Tech Killings
Pastor Dale Morgan
Franklin Graham: Satan Behind Virginia Tech Killings*
Apr 19th, 2007 7:01 AM
Evangelist Franklin Graham said Cho Seung-Hui, the killer at Virginia
Tech University, was "filled with evil,” and that Satan is responsible
for Monday’s mass killings of 32 people at the Blacksburg, Va., campus.
Appearing as a guest Wednesday on Fox News Channel, Graham said the need
for healing is great in a community shattered by a madman’s shooting
rampage.
"There is a big spiritual need here,” Graham said. "Kids are
questioning, ‘Did God abandon us? Why did God allow this to happen?’ . .
. They need love, they need our prayers . . . They need a touch from
Almighty God.”
Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,
sent 20 chaplains from his ministry’s Rapid Response Team to the
Virginia Tech campus to help students, faculty and staff deal with their
emotions in the wake of the massacre.
Graham placed the blame solely on Satan with Cho as the instrument to
carry out his evil deeds.
"There is evil in the world, no question about it,” Graham said. "I
believe Satan, the devil, is behind this … This young man was filled
with evil. There’s no way to describe the fact that he could go and
murder this many people and do what he did without this man being
possessed by an evil spirit who brought this carnage on this university.”
Graham said he would counsel forgiveness among the students and families
touched by the horrific murders.
"You have to forgive,” Graham said. "This was a human being. What he did
was wrong, what he did was evil. Absolutely, we can forgive, but I’m not
concerned about this young man right now. I’m concerned with the
families of his victims.”
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