Franklin Graham -- a fraud and charlatan of the highest order -- demonstrated his stupidity last night on CNN
Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
Rev. Billy Graham and head of his father's evangelist association,
whether he harbored "any doubts about this president's Christian
faith." The only thing worse than the question was the answer: Graham
blamed President Obama for the growing misperception that he is a
Muslim:
-- quote
I think the president's problem is that he was born a Muslim. His
father was a Muslim. The seed of Islam is passed through the father
like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother. He was born a
Muslim. His father gave him an Islamic name. Now it's obvious that the
president has renounced the Prophet Muhammad and he has renounced
Islam and he has accepted Jesus Christ. That's what he says he has
done. I cannot say that he hasn't.
So I just have to believe the president is what he has said. But he --
the confusion is, is because his father was a Muslim, he was born a
Muslim. The Islamic world sees the president as one of theirs. That's
why Qaddafi calls him "my son".
They see him as a Muslim but of course the president says he is a
Christian and we just have to accept it as that.
-- end quote
Setting aside Graham's peculiar view that being Muslim is an issue of
DNA rather than faith ("seed of Islam"), three things jump out at me:
-- President Obama has never renounced "renounced the Prophet
Muhammad" or "renounced Islam" because he is not and has never been a
Muslim.
-- What Qaddafi (or anybody else) believes about President Obama is
irrelevant to President Obama's personal faith.
-- In the midst of the preceding innuendo, Graham says "we just have
to accept" what President Obama says about his faith. He casts this as
a grudging concession based on insufficient evidence, even though when
it comes to matters of faith, the only thing we can ever go on is
one's word.
Last night, Keith Olbermann characterized the false belief that
President Obama is a Muslim as the belief that the president is a
"secret agent for another religion." And when you listen to Franklin
Graham's words, you can see that it's people like Graham -- not
President Obama -- who are responsible for fostering that conspiracy
theory.
Franklin Graham is a piece of shit. Graham, the son of Billy Graham,
was heavy into cocaine and other recreational drugs. He screwed
everything in a skirt, including a few men wearing kilts. Then, he
suddenly realized that inheriting his father's empire would enable him
to milk zillions of dollars from the believers, so, he found Jesus and
the rest is history.
Why should anyone give a flying fuck what Franklin Graham thinks about
anygoddam thing?
Scotius
Reminds me of James Garner in "My Fellow Americans" pretending
to be nice and encouraging the public to "...put aside any serious
doubts we might have about this man's ability to govern a nation".
