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* Rev. Graham: Let me remind you that one neither has to believe in a deity (or deities) nor does one not have to believe in a deity (or deities) to be a moral ethical person.
* ... I am with you 100%. People think you are not moral if you don't believe in fairy tales. The loving "Christian" comments that people post against people like us just shows me they are not the Christ like people they profess to be.
* We'll take our chances Graham. You are one of the most hate-filled creatures in our country. Why don't you just shut-up.
* Frank...I hope you know that your intense desire to force Jesus Christ on those who don't believe he exists and/or aren't willing to accept him as a savior kind of puts you on a par with ISIS. Maybe not as murderous, but just as loathsome. People are free to believe or not believe. All your bellyaching isn't going to change that. You lived your wild, reckless youth and now that you're getting old, you're repentant. Well, good boy. But everybody does not have to repent for your "sins".
* If there is a god and Franklin has to stand before him/her I hope god tells him what a rotten person he is. All religion if poison. Just look around the world and all the violence, war and hate that is being done in the name of someone's god. I don't believe in god but that doesn't mean I am not a moral person. I help people and volunteer for different causes. I don't need a fool like Franklin to tell me that I will burn in a hell that doesn't exit. Stop trying to stuff your Christianity down peoples' throats. Mind your own business. Now I await all the hateful comments from loving Christians.
* Fortunately for Rev. Graham, it's not his judgment call to make. He has absolutely nothing to do with who's going where, when and if. Now, it does make for quite a profitable income, as he knows, to say with such smug authority that someone just may burn in hell. What stands out to me is the fact that he somehow seems pleased to deliver this message of "you're going to hell." Sort of like he's enjoying the possibility.
* My life hasn't changed but your religion is troublesome. For instance, I live in the bible belt. This means that the Southern Baptist Cult had it's hand in getting legislation passed after prohibition, to limit or otherwise deny the sale of alcohol in certain areas and/or certain times. In the state of Texas, hard alcohol can not be sold on Sundays and no alcohol can be purchased after midnight on any day. While I don't drink much and this doesn't impact me, it is simply an example of how your religion imposes itself in our legislation. If that's not enough, just have a look what your religion is trying to do to planned parenthood and marriage equality. That's a cancer, as far as I'm concerned.
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Rev. Graham to ‘Reason Rally’: Atheists Will Stand Before the God They Disown and May Face Eternity in Hell
By Michael W. Chapman, June 6, 2016
In reaction to the atheists who gathered for the “Reason Rally” on Saturday, evangelist Franklin Graham said it was ironic they were in front of the Lincoln Memorial – a monument that extols God’s rule over this nation – and added that atheists will one day “stand before the God that they disown” and “face an eternity in Hell,” if they have not turned to Christ.
“On Saturday, atheists gathered in DC at the Lincoln Memorial to hold what they called a ‘Reason Rally,’” said Rev. Graham in a June 6 post on Facebook. “The atheists said their focus is secularism and their major political issues are climate change, reproductive rights, and LGBT equality.”
“The atheists said this was definitely a political event, and they are holding it in an election year because, they ‘want to see reason taking precedence over religious-driven ideology,’” said Rev. Graham.
“This liberal godless kind of what they call ‘reason’ should concern every freedom-loving American,” he said.
Rev. Graham continued, “Isn’t it ironic that they met on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial where these words are engraved in stone: ‘We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain–that this nation UNDER GOD shall have a new birth of freedom.’”
“President Abraham Lincoln acknowledged the inherent role God plays in establishing our rights and freedoms and so did many of our founding fathers,” said Rev. Graham.
“Now these atheists promoting secularism want to strip God out of America's past, present and future,” he said, adding, “Here’s a warning -- If you remove God, you remove God’s hand of blessing. That’s been shown over and over throughout history.”
“What can we do?” said Rev. Graham. “As Christians, we need to urgently share Jesus Christ with an ever-growing secular world.”
“One day each of these people is going to stand before the God that they disown, and they will face an eternity in Hell if they have not trusted Christ as their Savior,” said the reverend. “That’s where this kind of ‘reason’ will get them. The Bible says, ‘There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death’ (Proverbs 14:12).”
The "Reason Rally," held June 4 at the Lincon Memorial, included speakers such as Bill Nye "The Science Guy," scientist Carolyn Porco, who has worked with imaging for NASA, and GZA, a hop hop lyricist. The rally promoted itself as "the biggest gathering of nonreligious people in history!"
Franklin Graham, 63, is the son of world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham. Franklin Graham runs the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) and also oversees the international Christian relief group Samaritan’s Purse. Franklin Graham is married, has five children, and lives in Boone, North Carolina.
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