Chip Bok for February 21, 2018

Odd how those who don’t believe in evolution have evolved …

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Decades after Graham in 1981 expressed disgust at the possibility of a merger between the religious and political right, the term “evangelical” has for many become synonymous with right-wing politics.

Some experts said Graham, who was virtually absent from public life in the last 10 years because of Parkinson’s disease, was the antithesis of today’s climate. Others said he made it possible.

“I think he would be mortified by what’s happened today,” said Grant Wacker, who wrote a biography of Graham. “I think he would be in shock with how politicized the faith has become. He would look around and say, this is not what the gospel is about.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/02/21/what-would-billy-graham-think-of-evangelicals-today/

Billy once said “It seems we, as a nation, have traded God for gadgets.”

talk to them … about how important it really is to hate people who aren’t like you? Maybe that will help these dead kids feel a little better that the shooter was just like you.

Yes, please explain where God was when these good Christian kids were being gunned down.

Yes, Billy, explain to the kids that their lives are ‘the price of freedom’.

And don’t forget the part about how any gun regulation is exactly the same as confiscation of all guns.