Evangelical supporters of Kamala Harris accused of forsaking their Christian faith

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AMONG those pissed off by the recently-formed Evangelicals for Harris is the egregious fool Franklin Graham, above, who lashed out at the group for using footage of his late father in a “brutal” attack advertisement against former President Trump.

Fox News reported yesterday (Thursday) that Graham—President and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse—claimed in an X post that if his father were alive, he would support Trump.

On Wednesday, the group held a Zoom conference hosted by “reparations activist” Ekemini Uwan, who has argued that “Whiteness is wicked” and the police as an institution “needs to be destroyed and rebuilt. Policing was founded on the re-enslavementof Black people.”

The official Evangelicals for Harris account replied, “Praying for you” along with a heart emoji beneath his post and later said in a retweet that Graham has “forsaken the gospel.”

The issue, Franklin, is that in your worship of Trump you have forsaken the Gospel. We are voting for Harris but we only worship Jesus. Remember the calling to which you were called. You know the Lord’s grace is always ready to receive you.

At the Republican National Convention in July, Graham said of Trump,

I am grateful and thankful for what he did as the 45th President of the United States. And I know that as the 47th President he will keep his word to the American people to Make America Great Once Again.

He led a prayer thanking God for saving Trump’s life, after the ex-president narrowly avoided an assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania. Graham went on to implore God:

And we ask that if it be thy will that you would Make America Great Again.

Meanwhile Baptist News reported that In the view of evangelics who support the beleaguered, deranged and utterly incoherent criminal, anyone who favours Harris over Trump in this year’s presidential election is “forsaking the Christian faith.”

Denny Burk, President of the ridiculously named Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and a professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is quoted as saying:

The group aims to convince evangelicals of the Christian bona fides of Kamala Harris, but they have to distort orthodox Christianity to do so. It is, in fact, a betrayal of the gospel.

Baptist News also quoted Franklin as saying that Evangelicals for Harris:

Even developed a political ad trying to use my father’s image. They are trying to mislead people. Maybe they don’t know that my father appreciated the conservative values and policies of President Donald Trump in 2016, and if he were alive today, my father’s views and opinions would not have changed.

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Jemar Tisby, above, a bestselling author and professor at Simmons College of Kentucky, reiterating a point he has made repeatedly:

White Christian nationalism is the greatest threat to democracy and the witness of the church today.

He contrasted the “thin” political theology of white evangelicals with the “thick” political theology of evangelicals who oppose Trump and support Harris.

A thin political theology votes on a single issue without understanding the interconnectedness of multiple issues. A thin political theology contends there is only one true Christian party, one true Christian candidate, one true Christian way to vote. White evangelicals have been left ill-equipped by this thin political theology to address the political mess they helped create.

Most recent polls show that Kamala Harris is ahead or tied with Trump in six of seven battleground states, according to a new survey released Wednesday, erasing the leads the former Republican president enjoyed before Joe Biden dropped out of the race last month.

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17 responses to “Evangelical supporters of Kamala Harris accused of forsaking their Christian faith”

  1. “He led a prayer thanking God for saving Trump’s life….” Really? God is omnipotent and omniscient and therefore in being able to save Trump’s life he must have allowed the assassination attempt in the first place. Why would God stop what he had arranged? Trump has said that he will destroy God’s world by removing any environmental protection already in place from Biden’s administration. He insists that global warming is a hoax and his bizarrely foolish followers believe him. Far from MAGA Trump is intent on wrecking the USA. Trump is a convicted criminal (many times), a liar and a man who obsessively sacrifices others to benefit himself. The belief that God would save and support such a morally defective man as Trump is a clear indication that such a God does not exist.

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    1. Graham’s imaginary friend saved Trump’s life by allowing the bullet to kill someone else…

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      1. Why couldn’t God ensure the bullet to miss Trump and hit no one? “God works in wondrous ways, his wonders to perform.” And then some? How can Christian believers claim to be sure of anything God wants? “God’s truth” must be an incomprehensible mystery.

        I read recently that astronomers have calculated that there are at least 100 billion stars in the Milky Way and possibly up to 400 billion. What’s that all about. From that lot why would God select humans clinging to a speck of rock as being “in his image” and important beyond any other creature?

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        1. Stop questioning and send your tithes ASAP!

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          1. Please send me your bank details and passwords Stephen.

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      2. Just what I was thinking. They talk bollocks!

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  2. Pewresearch shows that 36% of 18 to 29 year-olds in the USA are religious “nones”, that is nearly twice the number of evangelicals; illustrative of the massive transformation taking place in US demographics and politics – watch this space.

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  3. If Graham had any sense at all (which he clearly doesn’t) he would steer well clear of politics. His father was a bosom pal of Richard Nixon, of all people (“If the president does it, it’s not illegal”), whom he controversially invited to speak at two of his “crusades” – Yankee Stadium in the 1950s, and Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1970. He even considered entering politics himself when “Tricky Dicky” offered him the ambassadorship to Israel, and was over the moon at being invited to sit in on White House meetings. This all went pear-shaped, of course, not only over Watergate, but over the tape recordings in which he and Nixon engaged in the most anti-Semitic conversation imaginable, the release of which very nearly ended Graham’s career. A grovelling apology followed, of course, alongside a resolution to never get so close to a politician again!

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    1. When a child in Guernsey, I was mentally abused by the education authority – they bussed all primary school kids to the Candie Gardens venue to hear Graham and receive a bible. I had forgotten until now, I think that I had just started primary school, must have been 1949/50.

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  4. Does anyone remember if primary school kids in the UK were bussed to Graham rantings as was I in Guernsey?

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    1. It wouldn’t surprise me one little bit. When I taught at a large comprehensive school in the 1970s, a group of very enthusiastic Australian singers and preachers was invited to “entertain” an assembly hall packed with pupils one afternoon. I was a Christian myself at the time, yet even I was shocked. And I can assure you that, even today, evangelical preachers are gaining access to schools to take “religious studies” and address assemblies, as headteachers are at their wits’ end to find people who will do it!

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      1. The head teacher at my grandson’s (non-religion aligned) primary school is an evangelical who has invited other religious nuts to talk at assembly and organise summer church events for the kids! Parents did nothing (apart from moaning amongst themselves).

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        1. People are so gullible. They have no idea what is going on.

          This is scary!

          https://eu.blueridgenow.com/story/news/2001/06/24/graham-crusades-events-attract-young-people/28119539007/

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    2. “Counties” evangelists (Plymouth Brethren) have been going for years. When I was a boy, they had a little caravan and “Gospel Tent” (marquee), mainly for the indoctrination of children, but they’re much more sophisticated these days!

      https://www.countiesuk.org/schools-resources-intro

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      1. I had seen this latest development about the Plymouth brainwashers, “DO NOT mention the word CHURCH as it will pre-warn about our purpose”!

        I owe a lot to Plymouth, I was living in Mousehole and went to Plymouth for the 1982 hilly marathon, stayed in a friend’s empty female accommodation room at College of St Mark and St John where I met my future wife in the sudent union bar. Sally was an age 20 student who was impressed with my stunning good looks, wit and personality at age 38!

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        1. I believe you’re referring to the Exclusive Brethren “Taylorites” (just one of umpteen different sects), who rather arrogantly call themselves “The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church”. They are extreme and unbelievably devious. The Open Brethren are much more numerous and less extreme, and very much a “broad church”, though still fundamentalist in belief.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Brethren_Christian_Church

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  5. I cannot remember which brand of Plymouth parasites.

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