So much fodder for ranting this morning! :)
From my twitter feed: RT @cnnbrk: Army pulls Graham invite for prayer event due to "The Army..feared... Islamic militants would.." http://is.gd/bEQJQ
I thought the whole point of the war was so that we would could have the freedom to make choices in our lives and our nation not out of fear but out of our liberties. And now here we have the leaders of our brave men and women of the armed forces making a choice regarding the National Day of Prayer out of fear that the bad guys might get offended?? This is not "military strategy" this is the effects of a culture that has lost sight of it's Christian heritage and roots, the very thing that made us great. This is a decision made from the quagmire of the modern concept of tolerance.
Franklin Graham is not some wild-eyed bigot from the fringes of culture. He is the respected son of Billy Graham and has taken up his father's evangelistic mantle after a long and difficult time of prodigal living.
Join me and many others, including Church leaders, community officials, and a ton of great people at the Cleveland celebration of the ("unconstitutional") 2010 National Day of Prayer on Thursday May 6th in Public Square in downtown CLE with events going on from 10am-1pm, with the central prayer for the nation happening at noon.
Friday, April 23, 2010
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I have something to say on this because I completely agree with the military's decision to pull Mr. Graham's invite.
He made an unfortunate comment on record last december damning the Islamic religion. It wasn't the fear of another terrorist attack that got his invitation recinded, it was was his intolerance toward another religion.
National Prayer day is just that, a day of prayer... and not just for Christians but, for the melting pot of races and religions that make up this wonderful country. Our great leaders didn't want somebody speaking at the ceremony who wasn't a compassionate representative for our people.
You're missing the point(s). Just exactly "who" are we praying to here? Prayer isn't some pointless speech to people about ideas or empty meditation, prayer is communication to God. That same God has revealed Himself to us and the world. We have always been a tolerant nation allowing freedom of worship, but it has been a consistent truth from our founding fathers onward that we honor the God of the Bible above all. The "meting pot" you refer to came from a sense of Christian charity inviting all the poor and oppressed people of the world to come and find hope in the blessings of God found in our nation. It does not mean that we surrender our heritage, faith or beliefs in order to assimilate other religions into our lives. And it most certainly does not mean that we alter our prayer (communication) to God because someone somewhere might get offended.
If God is not real or He is unknowable then what we pray and who we pray to on this day does not matter. If God is real however, if Jesus is the "way the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through" Him, then what does that make any religious teaching that denies this claim?
We do not have to agree with, like, or accept what other people believe in order to be "tolerant." It is true that Mr. Graham could have chosen his words better. However, the military leadership made a choice out of fear, not out of the same courage that our armed forces show every day.
I am very disappointed that the military decided to uninvite Franklin Graham. Just another small step toward marginalizing Christians in our society.
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