Volume I No. 13
 09-04-02
 The Crushing Sanctimony 
 of the Reverend Frankin Graham
 author: Vance Cureton
 © Copyright 2002

 The Religious Right will soon have a new champion. His name is Franklin
 Graham. The angry bigoted son of the Reverend Billy Graham. 

 The beloved Rev. Billy Graham was, and remains a symbol of the religious 
 hope of many Americans. Reverend Graham was the unofficial Chaplain 
 of the American political scene, a supporter of Conservative ideals and 
 Conservative Presidents. Although, the Reverend was not a particularly 
 political person himself. Age has caught up with him, and as was inevitable, 
 the torch is slowly being passed from father to son. 

 The greatest voice of the modern evangelical era, Reverend Billy Graham 
 symbolized the best of Christianity. A man tolerant of other faiths and other 
 religious ideals. Reverend Graham was always sensitive that America was 
 a country, that although founded by people of Christian faith, became a 
 beacon of hope to immigrants from other cultures who ventured to this land 
 to escape religious, economic, and cultural oppression. These new Americans 
 were worthy people, too. Christian or not.

 The America of Franklin Graham is a very different place than that. His 
 Christianty is bold, aggressive, and intolerant of not only other faiths, but 
 other branches of Christianity. For Reverend Franklin Graham there is only 
 one way to salvation. And that is through his Jesus Christ. All other views, 
 opinions, and beliefs, are not as good, and just plain wrong. They are threat 
 to Graham's solitary vision of what America should be. 

 This is the narrow voice of the Far Right.

 This man paints with the broad brush. Reverend Franklin Graham slanders 
 Islam as a religion of war. Although he rightly criticizes the silence of Muslim
 leaders around the world against those who indiscriminately kill the innocent 
 in the name of Jihad. He sees evil not in the backward-thinking men who 
 interpret the Holy Koran this way, but in the Koran itself.  How easily Franklin
 Graham seizes upon the opportunity to judge other men of faith. But like most 
 Far Right evangelical's is contemptuous and dismissive of those who call his 
 own religious beliefs into question.

 How history does often repeat itself. Across the centuries there have been 
 countless narrow-thinking religious figures such as Franklin Graham. Men who 
 preach hatred and intolerance in the code of high-sounding words. Men who 
 see only the goodness in themselves, and the failings of other human beings. 

 The bigoted Franklin Graham represents the worse in America. An example
 of how sometimes faith blinds.

 God help us.
 

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