Anti-progressive people of faith: Part 2

[trotsky]

[font size=+2]Franklin Graham[/font]

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/franklin-graham-biography/

Franklin Graham has devoted his life to meeting the needs of people around the world and proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The elder son of Billy and Ruth Bell Graham, he has served as president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse since 1979 and as president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association since 2001.

Under his leadership, Samaritan’s Purse has met the needs of poor, sick, and suffering people in more than 100 countries. As an evangelist for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, he has led crusades around the world.

...He was born into a heritage rich in Christian ministry. By the time of Franklin’s birth, Billy Graham was already known around the world as a spiritual leader, but he wasn’t the only spiritual giant in the family. Franklin’s maternal grandfather, Lemuel Nelson Bell, was a medical missionary to China for more than 20 years, a respected moderator of his denomination, the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and a co-founder and executive editor of Christianity Today.

At age 22, after a period of rebellion and traveling the world, Franklin committed his life to Jesus Christ while alone in a hotel room in Jerusalem. Soon after that, Dr. Bob Pierce, founder of Samaritan’s Purse (and World Vision), invited Franklin to join him on a six-week mission to Asia. It was during that time that Franklin felt a calling to work with hurting people in areas of the world affected by war, famine, disease, and natural disasters.

Certainly comes from a family with deep faith - it's just too bad his faith inspires him to be such a hateful bigot.

[True Dough]

1. How many of these profiles do you have planned, Trotsky?

You could fill the forum with them, if you so desired.

[trotsky]

2. No definite number in mind.

Just providing some balance!

[Girard442]

3. Imagine there's a green pill.

When you take the green pill, it's said, you become a much better person. You're filled with love and compassion and a desire to help others.

There are a lot of people who say they've taken the green pill, but somehow, they seem to still be the same mean-spirited hate-filled people they always were. They do seem to be very smug about having taken the green pill though.

Two possibilities: most people who say they've taken the green pill lie about it and never actually did, or...the green pill is just a sugar pill with no actual properties. People who take it don't actually change. If they were good before they stay good and if they were bad before, they stay bad.

I know what my answer is.

[trotsky]

4. Your pill analogy would be better...

if the pill came with instructions that had been written long ago, translated and re-translated, that were completely contradictory about what the pill did and what its side effects were. And then people who acted differently after taking the green pill blamed each other for not reading the instructions properly.

[Girard442]

5. Well said.

[Lordquinton]

6. Also the "Green Pill" is actually purple

but don't point that out!

[beam me up scottie]

7. That is an excellent analogy.