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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.

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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