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Topic: NAACP criticizes Franklin Graham for political, religious stands |
NAACP criticizes Franklin Graham for political, religious stands
News & Observer [Charlotte, NC], by Michael Gordon
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Posted By:Fiesta del sol, 10/30/2012 3:47:19 PM
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| For the second time during the presidential campaign, a group of African-American ministers in North Carolina has criticized Franklin Graham for challenging the spiritual beliefs of President Barack Obama, accusing the evangelist Monday of promoting a narrow form of Christianity that supports a politically conservative point of view. Meeting in Charlotte, the group read an open letter to Graham that comes in response to a series of full-page ads that bear a photograph of his father, Billy Graham, and ask voters to elect candidates who support “biblical principles.” In comments to the
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Comments: Source corrected. LCom Staff.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
VAPMAN, 10/30/2012 3:54:10 PM (No. 8975123)
Franklin Graham is a really good person. He heads up Samaritan's Purse and Operation Christmas Child charities. These do alot of good work around the world including gift boxes to kids who would probably never get a gift in their life if not from OCC. Last year over 8 million boxes were given out to over 100 nations. Many of the gift boxes go to Africa. I dare say Franklin's charities do more for Africa then the NCAAP. They ought to stop critizing him and start helping.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jeremiah29_11, 10/30/2012 3:54:40 PM (No. 8975124)
Any person who supports abortion and homosexual unions is not a Christian. That doesn't mean that you hate them, it just means that they have said the Bible and God are in error. Franklin Graham is correct.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Stlouislaxbros dad, 10/30/2012 3:59:39 PM (No. 8975132)
Read the article and look at the photo of the ministers.
Hysterical... under the photo it refers to "a diverse group of statewide religious leaders."
I looked at the photo again. I had no idea before this moment that the word "diverse" meant "all black."
Learn something new every day.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GOP_U_BET, 10/30/2012 4:00:04 PM (No. 8975133)
Dear NAACP, you have passed your Sell By Date and flunked the smell test for thirty years. So byebye...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
hammondb3, 10/30/2012 4:00:47 PM (No. 8975134)
Obama is not a believer in Christ. Therefore he is not a Christian. Period.
Jesus stated in no uncertain terms that the tree is known for the fruit that it bears. Obama is completely self-serving, walks all over other people, is capable of lying with a completely straight face, sees no wrong in killing babies who are seconds from being fully delivered, and seems to be more comfortable and supportive of Islam than Christianity.
Obama can call himself a Christian all he wants. Christianity is not endowed upon someone through merely claiming to be one. Christianity is gifted upon someone who recognizes their absolute inability to please God who is also willing to throw themselves at the feet of the Almighty, with a broken heart, and receive forgiveness.
Obama's life simply does not indicate that he is anything other than arrogant and self-serving. He is not serving others. He is not in any way that I can see, a humble man.
John Bunyan ('Pilgrim's Progress') had a nice way of putting it. There are professors of faith. Then, there are possessors of faith. Obama is a weak professor, at best. He is certainly not a possessor of faith in Christ.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SgtMike, 10/30/2012 4:02:36 PM (No. 8975135)
Looks like a cast party for "Planet of the Apes". I suggest the good ministers take the time and read the bible. Billy Graham is dead on.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Momma Walton, 10/30/2012 4:02:44 PM (No. 8975136)
Guess they have not or choose not to read the same Bible we do! God's Word is true and He will stand by it.
Lead US not into temptation!
Deliver US from evil, for Thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory! Amen!
God's Word is enough for me.
When these so-called ministers stand before God on Judgment Day, they will be held accountable to Him, not Obama! What do they want to hear - Welcome, good and faithful servant or depart from Me, for I "never" knew you! This is their choice as well as ours.
God is faithful to His Word, Jesus, who is the Righteouness Of His Father, sent to "deliver" man from from their sins.
By Faith we come, just as we are, receive His gift of Love/Mercy/Grace.
He will stand before Satan for US, for the battle is His, not ours!
America is finally waking up from a nightmare called Obama!
Pray for America and vote for righteousness!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
texaspast, 10/30/2012 4:03:17 PM (No. 8975138)
Matthew 7:13-14 Enter you in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it.
And that, brothers of the NAACP, is what the Bible says. It's a shame that you guys throw a hissy fit at an ad that just says 'vote for the candidates who support Biblical principles.'
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mollybob, 10/30/2012 4:05:25 PM (No. 8975141)
Unlike these clueless "minsters," I agree with the man who advocates the narrow way. "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." Mt.7:13-14
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cartcart, 10/30/2012 4:06:11 PM (No. 8975142)
What else would you expect from the NAACP? Ministers cannot change this. Eventually, there will be only one church standing and it will pit the whole world against it. I choose to follow Christ.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jackson, 10/30/2012 4:09:22 PM (No. 8975147)
His mother, Ruth, said something back in the seventies that I never forgot. "If the Almighty does not judge America for what she is doing today, the He owes Sodom and Gomorah an apology."
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
oriton, 10/30/2012 4:09:28 PM (No. 8975148)
I criticize the NAACP for promoting a liberal, narrow form of anti-Christ support of barack hussein obama. I think the big dude in the middle is/was involved in the Wake county school busing fight, and I think he got arrested for acting out at a school board meeting. He is no minister; he's just another race hustler in the order of Sharpton Jackson.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
AnnG, 10/30/2012 4:21:08 PM (No. 8975170)
The NAACP is upset that Graham is urging people to vote for someone who shares his values. They know Obama has none. The double standard here is ridiculous. I guess they support abortion and gay marriage as long as a black president supports it. By the way what God do they worship?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
NYbob, 10/30/2012 4:22:22 PM (No. 8975175)
But they were fine with Franklin Raines forcing his staff to submit fraudulent numbers so he could collect millions in bonuses when he was head of FannyFreddy. That says it all about them.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
proactus, 10/30/2012 4:37:32 PM (No. 8975192)
I don't see any diversity in that picture. Looks more like a reunion of the 5th Dimension.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
TexasHillCountry, 10/30/2012 4:38:01 PM (No. 8975193)
Like a certain radio talk show host says: the National Association for the Advancement of LIBERAL Colored People--the NAA-L-CP
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
1931K, 10/30/2012 4:39:25 PM (No. 8975196)
Cry babies NAACP...Nighty Night NAACP As you have become totally usless.......
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
skillsss, 10/30/2012 4:42:48 PM (No. 8975203)
I thought barack husein's political party voted three times to keep GOD OUT OF THE PLATFORM. Exactly what is left up to interpretation?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Penney, 10/30/2012 4:45:56 PM (No. 8975211)
Apparently the naacp left Biblical principles behind somewhere along the line?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
robwin, 10/30/2012 4:47:12 PM (No. 8975214)
"...accusing the evangelist Monday of promoting a narrow form of Christianity that supports a politically conservative point of view." Meanwhile these NAACP cry babies promote a viewpoint that has no resemblance at all to Christianity.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
columba, 10/30/2012 4:47:34 PM (No. 8975219)
Even the Pope is criticized for his religious stands ... even though they have been the same since AD 33.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
thelmalou, 10/30/2012 4:56:02 PM (No. 8975234)
#15 - hahahahahahaaaa
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 10/30/2012 5:00:33 PM (No. 8975242)
If you can support Obama, you are not a Christian; Afro-American preachers or not...
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Highvoltage, 10/30/2012 5:08:22 PM (No. 8975261)
Luke 13 says "Make every effort to enter through the narrow door."
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
northeast, 10/30/2012 5:08:23 PM (No. 8975262)
From the looks of these guys does not look like they share their food with others.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Spidey, 10/30/2012 5:10:56 PM (No. 8975268)
NAACP doesn't mind the white genocide of their babies.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mickturn, 10/30/2012 5:23:17 PM (No. 8975288)
Religious theology directed by the Bible is not a 'living document' as the Libs appear to be making it out to be. There is little option for man's opinion on how to interpret or enact scripture, it is quite explicit.
SO this is nothing more than the Libs perverting religion to their own purposes...and that is to abolish all of it.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
TexasRed, 10/30/2012 5:25:28 PM (No. 8975293)
Reverend Dr. Barber - be prepared to explain to God, the parts of His Bible you disagree with!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree, 10/30/2012 5:29:48 PM (No. 8975302)
Can't recall the last time the naacp criticized Jesse or Al for their political stances.
And looking at 'em all together like that, they could pass for the Gimmedat Committee of the Reparations Now Club, Chicago Chapter.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
kahunavol, 10/30/2012 5:30:07 PM (No. 8975303)
So apparently Franklin Graham has the right to share their political and religious stands or his is not valid. Liberal and racial totalitarianism is disgusting.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
bobn.t, 10/30/2012 6:13:14 PM (No. 8975381)
So the NAACP is complaining about people taking political stands.
Wow, I'm confused. Isn't that what the NAACP does?
How many NAACP members will be voting for the (half)black guy?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
msjena, 10/30/2012 6:13:53 PM (No. 8975383)
Franklin and Billy Graham must be making some inroads with black Christians. I do believe that some Christians put faith above race. Or at least I hope some do.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
franq, 10/30/2012 6:17:58 PM (No. 8975388)
I'm sorry. Any group/person that defines themself as xxxx-American has lost credibility with me.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
web, 10/30/2012 6:50:12 PM (No. 8975444)
The poor we have always, and God could feed all the hungry and cure the sick if he wished, as we witnessed with the coming of Jesus Christ. What we cannot change are spiritual truths, such as God made them male and female, in the beginning, and they are joined together as one flesh in marriage. God doesn't even approve of divorce, except for the hardness of our hearts. Even heathens feed the poor and care for the sick. Even demons believe in God. It doesn't make them Christian... only to do the will of God and follow his commandments.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Italiano, 10/30/2012 7:05:33 PM (No. 8975461)
Genuine Christian black pastors are deserting Obama in droves. I've heard a few of them.
Our pastor was heavily involved in that ad. We're proud of him.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
zahbudda, 10/30/2012 7:13:02 PM (No. 8975470)
The NAACP have sold their Souls to the Devil...for political power! Playing the "Race card" in the Bride of Christ.... "Choose this day who you will serve"...,Joshua told the Children of Israel..but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord"...They are are now serving their "High Priest of Moloch"...Barry Soetoro...who never saw a baby that he didn't want to kill...even if it survives the Abortionists scalpel! After all, the Holy Trinity to Marxists is: Race, Gender and Class.....since 1917!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
pineledger, 10/30/2012 7:25:19 PM (No. 8975490)
Criticism is the chief (and as far as I can tell only) product of the NAACP.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
faith_and_reason, 10/30/2012 7:40:11 PM (No. 8975514)
"If a man will not work, neither shall he eat" - Apostle Paul (a.k.a. Rabbi Saul)
"Do not cast your pearls before swine." - Jesus.
The Bible doesn't command donations for all or forgiveness for all. It commands kindness in response to the humble, grateful requests of the truly needy, with charity being purely voluntary.
And it commands that forgiveness be granted only by the harmed party and only when he is convinced that repentence is sincere.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 10/30/2012 9:46:02 PM (No. 8975770)
They are one of the most racist groups around, who are they to condem Franklin ?
Their motto should be If you're black, we got your back, and be honest about it.
It seems to be ok to say "colored people" and "negro" as long as you are collecting money.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
get er done, 10/30/2012 10:21:10 PM (No. 8975835)
Just what sort of "religious standards" does this North Carolina group of black ministers promote? -- the standards of Rev. Wright, which might include a match making service for the down low crowd?
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
laotzu, 10/31/2012 8:56:17 AM (No. 8976390)
Behold, the Church of the Progressive National Plantation.
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