Interview With the Rev. Franklin Graham, Birther Espousing Lying Preacher.

Proof of Graham's outright lies concerning Obama's religious faith on top of his lies about Obama's birth certificate.

President Obama published 1/23/2008

"I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life. But most importantly, I believe in the example that Jesus set by feeding the hungry and healing the sick and always prioritizing the least of these over the powerful. I didn't 'fall out in church' as they say, but there was a very strong awakening in me of the importance of these issues in my life. I didn't want to walk alone on this journey. Accepting Jesus Christ in my life has been a powerful guide for my conduct and my values and my ideals."
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/januaryweb-only/104-32.0.html?start=2

None of this discussion about birtherism or Obama's religion have anything to do with his place of birth or his religion.  It is all about his racist.  Evangelical Christianity and anti-black racism have walked together from their beginnings.  The largest evangelical denomination,  the "Southern Baptists" were born out of their break with the northern Baptists who believed American slave system which treated humans as animals, not human beings was incompatible with Christianity.

Evangelicals were the last Christians to accept civil rights for African Americans.  It took the Southern Baptists to 1998 to do this.  The Mormons were even worse.  Racism is embedded in the very core doctrines of their fait.

If people were truly inspired by God would they not have led the way towards justice as Jesus did?  Some thoughts to ponder on the Easter Sunday.  

Bishop Long's financial "blessings" are also suspect | TheLoop21.com

Bishop Long's financial "blessings" are also suspect | TheLoop21.com

Is having a Bentley part of God’s plan? What would Jesus do?

By: Dr. Boyce Watkins

The church has over 25,000 members.

According to Celebritynetworth.com, the Bishop Eddie Long is worth $5 million. Honestly, I think that their estimate is probably inaccurate, since most of the world doesn’t know much about the lucrative life of black megapastors. Either way, we know that Bishop Long won’t be taking the bus any time soon.

What’s also true is that the Bishop Eddie Long’s church, the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, is financially “blessed.” The church has over 25,000 members, with many of them giving more money than they can afford. The $50 million church includes a computer lab, a nursery, bookstore and library. While many members are affluent, I’m sure some of them are struggling.

When Long was being investigated by the United States Senate in 2005, the pastor made this statement:

"We're not just a church, we're an international corporation, " Long said. "We're not just a bumbling bunch of preachers who can't talk and all we're doing is baptizing babies. I deal with the White House. I deal with Tony Blair. I deal with presidents around this world. I pastor a multimillion-dollar congregation.

"You've got to put me on a different scale than the little black preacher sitting over there that's supposed to be just getting by because the people are suffering."

In the investigation, it was concluded that Long paid himself almost as much in salary as one of his key nonprofits, Bishop Eddie Long Ministries, actually gave out to beneficiaries. He was also reported to have given himself access to a $1.4 million home and a $350,000 Bentley.

If only I’d known that being a pastor was so profitable, I wouldn’t have been such a heathen.

My father is a pastor, but he doesn’t drive a Bentley. I want to believe that he truly accepts God in his life and does his job on Sundays because he believes what he’s saying. I honestly might be suspicious of my dad if he felt comfortable driving in a Bentley being paid for by people in his church, some of whom are having trouble paying their own bills. I might feel that perhaps he was drunk with power, self-worship and the need to believe that somehow his being a spiritual leader entitles him to live dramatically better than the folks he represents.

Is having a Bentley part of God’s plan? What would Jesus do? Given that Jesus is the king of kings and all that good stuff, one would expect that he would deserve the nicest private jet and the biggest mansion, and also be able to boast about a long list of relationships with world leaders like Tony Blair and George W. Bush. Or, perhaps he might be a humble servant of the people, who would rather feed a hungry man than to buy himself a bigger swimming pool.

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Obama keeping public expressions of religion to a minimum

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As he flew aboard Air Force One to Chicago on his 49th birthday earlier this month, President Obama dialed three Christian pastors to pray with him.

On an airborne conference call, he kidded with the religious leaders about being abandoned by his wife and daughters, who were away on vacation and at camp. As he celebrated his birthday, he was in a reflective mood. He told them he wanted to pray about the year that had passed, what's really important in life and the challenges ahead.

"That was simply something that he wanted to do at his initiative because it was important to him," said Joel Hunter, an evangelical pastor who was on the call and who is part of a small circle of spiritual advisers who frequently talk to Obama by phone.

The prayer session, which was not publicized and which neither the White House nor the ministers sought to bring to light, reflects Obama's decision to keep his public expressions of religious faith to a minimum. Hunter said the president often reaches out to pastors for private spiritual conversation.

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I believe the results of the recent Pew institute poll showing a 18 percent of Americans think Obama is a Muslim derives in large part from racial bigotry. It is much more acceptable in America to say negative things about Muslims as opposed to negative things about African Americans. Witness the sinister statements by Reverend Franklin Graham, son the the famous evangelist Billy Graham who recently said Obama was “born a Muslim” because the religion’s “seed” is passed from the father". This statement clearly contradicts the express words of the bible he professes to believe in which says upon accepting Christ as your lord and savior "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead" 1Peter 1-3 New American Translation. The problem with many evangelical pastors is that they tend to br poorly educated, poorly read and intellectually dead. As a result they are steeped in the same bigotry and prejudices as other similarly situated citizens. The problem is that many Christians and non Christians hear there statements and believe this is Christianity. These types of statements chase many people away from the church, good pople who do not want to be associated with this type of ignorance and bigotry. Reverend Billy Graham was notorious for his open support for the corrupt President Richard Nixon and also the unpopular and morally indefensible War in Vietnam. No wonder some many highly educated and well read people reject organized religion.

John H. Armwood

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Though President Obama has explained in his memoirs that his father was indeed born a Muslim, according to a Time Magazine article by Barack Obama in 2006, Barack Obama Sr.'s deep skepticism of religion eventually led to his atheism:

My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition.