Recently received this Email which seems appropriate:
Time is like a
> river. You cannot touch the water
> twice, because the flow that has passed will never
> pass again.
> Franklin Graham (Billy
> Graham’s son - age 63) was
> speaking at the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville,
> Florida a few weeks
> back when he said America will not come back.
>
> He wrote:
> “The American Dream ended on November 6th,
> 2012 in Ohio. The second term of Barack Obama
> will be the
> final nail in the coffin for the legacy of the white
> Christian males
> who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled and
> developed the
> greatest Republic in the history of mankind.
>
>
> A coalition of blacks, Latinos,
> feminists, gays, government workers, union members,
> environmental extremists, the
> Media, Hollywood, uninformed young people, the
> ‘forever needy’, the
> chronically unemployed, illegal aliens and other
> ‘fellow travelers’ have ended Norman Rockwell ‘s
> America. The cocker spaniel is off the
> front porch. The pit bull is in the back yard. The
> American Constitution
> has been replaced with Saul Alinsky’s
> ‘Rules for Radicals’ and
> Chicago shyster, David Axelrod, along with
> international Socialist George
> Soros, will be pulling the strings on their
> beige
> puppet to bring us Act 2 of the New World Order.
>
> The conservatives ran
> two candidates who
> couldn’t even win their own home states.
> Chris Christie
> helped Obama over the top with a glowing
> ‘post-Sandy’ tribute that
> elevated the ‘Commander-in-Chief’ to Mother
> Teresa status. People like me
> are completely politically irrelevant, and I will
> never again
> comment on or concern myself with the aforementioned
> coalition which has
> surrendered our culture, our heritage and our
> traditions without a shot
> being fired.
>
> We
> will never again
> out-vote these people. It will take individual
> acts of defiance and
> massive displays of civil disobedience to get
> back the rights
> we have allowed them to take away. It will take
> zealots, not
> moderates, shy, reach-across-the-aisle RINOs to right
> this ship and
> restore our beloved country to its former status.
>
> Those who come after us
> will have to risk their lives, their fortunes and their
> sacred honor to bring back the
> Republic that this generation has timidly frittered
> away due to ‘white
> guilt’ and political correctness.”
The problem with Franklin Graham, as good a man as he must be, is that he...well...he is a man of faith that seems to have no faith in God answering his prayer, no virtue of hope....the virtue of hope is to have it in earthquake and eclipse, as Chesterton says, not just in the morning. Faith and hope. It’s not just “unless we fight”, it’s “fight”.
Certainly don’t mean lack of faith in the manner of his belief in Jesus.