FRANKLIN GRAHAM: A Trumper's Lament

 UPDATE:

I just heard from our P.E. friend, Dave Miller, that this was not from Franklin Graham. I should have known better than to rely on the Mother Ship for accurate information because that group NEVER verifies if something is true or not. My mistake and my apologies for thinking something from a right wing blog had any merit! 

Here's Dave:

According to Snopes, and I remember seeing this years ago, at best, this has been misattributed to Graham and has been around since at least 2015.

Here's part of what they had to say...

"The only factual element to this item is its attribution, which is incorrect: These words were not delivered at the Jacksonville Pastors’ Conference in January 2015 by Franklin Graham, the president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. This item had already been circulating anonymously for more than two years prior to that event, attributed to no particular individual or publication. 

Franklin Graham was speaking at the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, when he said America will not come back. He wrote: 

“The American dream ended” The first term of Joe Biden [NOTE: President Biden has been in office for TWO MONTHS, not "the first term" and America is on Donald Trump's budget!] has been the final nail in the coffin for the legacy of the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled and developed the greatest republic in the history of mankind. [NOTE: Those same white Christian males, burned women as witches, stole land from and killed the indigenous peoples of North America, and went on to break EVERY SINGLE TREATY THE white Christian government made with the Native Americans. Those same white Christian males and females built this country on the backs of Africans who were kidnapped from their native countries and brought to the New World and used as chattel slaves.]

GRAHAM:  A coalition of blacks, Latinos, feminists, gays, government workers, union members, environmental extremists, the media, Hollywood, uninformed young people, the “forever needy,” the chronically unemployed that do not want to work, illegal aliens and other “fellow travelers” have ended……Norman Rockwell’s America. [NOTE: Rockwell's America never existed but in the minds of white privileged Christians. While they wax nostalgic over a time that never existed for ALL Americans. African Americans were in Jim Crow America denied the right to vote, attend their tax-paid for public schools, were tortured and killed with impunity for looking at a white person the wrong way, black prisoners were used for medical experimentation without their consent. Women were not allowed to own property, get their own credit card,  or access birth control, among many other things.]

 GRAHAM: You will never again out-vote these people. [NOTE: "These people" are Americans just as much as Graham is. The language he uses to refer to his fellow Americans shows his true feelings for Americans with different skin color and different cultural backgrounds. He's a bigot .] 

GRAHAM: It will take individual acts of defiance and massive displays of civil disobedience to get back the rights we have allowed them to take away.[NOTE: Graham does NOT tell us what "rights" were taken away from him and the white Christian community. He doesn't tell you because no "rights" were taken away. Franklin Graham is a liar. No white Christian has had his/her right to free speech taken away; right to practice his/her religion as he/she chooses; right to a free press; right to address grievances to their government (he's telling them to engage in "civil disobedience," isn't he?) They still have the right to bear arms, assemble, etc. NO RIGHTS HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAY. The fact that he's free to broadcast this blather shows he knows nothing about the Bill of Rights.]

[Now read Graham's white grievances, all complaints from someone who sees his majority influence waning and watching groups of people he dislikes -- nice Christian, there --  accessing what he was always been able to enjoy without impediment as an American.]

GRAHAM: It will take zealots, not moderates and shy, not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) to right this ship and restore our beloved country to its former status. [NOTE: Graham doesn't say what "its former status" was.]  People like me are completely politically irrelevant, and I will probably never again be able to legally comment on or concern myself with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered our culture, our heritage and our traditions without a shot being fired.[NOTE: Graham is being hysterical and rabble rousing here. We are a country of MANY CULTURES AND HERITAGES! Graham is complaining of having to SHARE Americas multi-cultural heritage.]

GRAHAM: The Cocker spaniel is off the front porch, the pit bull is in the back yard, the American Constitution has been replaced with Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and the likes of Chicago shyster David Axelrod [NOTE the shameful anti-Semitic slur against David Axelrod] along with international socialist George Soros [NOTE: That's the THIRD JEWISH PERSON HE'S NAMED! He's  blaming the JEWS, just like in the old days! How nostalgic"] and have brought us Act 2 of the New World Order. 

GRAHAM:  The curtain will come down but the damage has been done 

[NOTE: Graham doesn't name "the damage;" it's just THERE for his fellow Christians to fear and hate -- especially THOSE JEWS!]. 

[NOTE: Graham has told this old, old, narrative of "blame the minorities and non-Christians for changes the dwindling majority doesn't understand nor want."]

 GRAHAM: Those who come after us will once again have to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to bring back the Republic that this generation has timidly frittered away due to white guilt and political correctness.” 

NOTE: Graham is an evil, destructive man who has no connection to or understanding of Christianity. 

Graham's nothing more than an old-fashioned bigot terrified of sharing his white privilege with his fellow non-white Americans. He's the sort of person who contributes the most to the destruction of civilized society. He comforts the comfortable and brings more affliction to the afflicted with his hateful rhetoric, not grounded in truth or anything approaching what the founder of his religion believed.