Posted on 03/01/2018 4:19:26 AM PST by billorites
There are few names as associated with modern Christianity as Reverend Billy Graham. For decades, the pastor has served as an advisor to presidents regardless of party. He was a living embodiment of how people should act toward those who may disagree with them.
As the day of the funeral fast approaches, past presidents and other dignitaries are paying their respects: former President George W. Bush did on Monday, and former President Bill Clinton did the same on Tuesday. President Donald Trump will be attending Graham's funeral on Friday.
Yet former President Barack Obama will be skipping it, according to the Associated Press: "Former President Barack Obama is not planning to attend memorial services for the late evangelist Rev. Billy Graham this week."
Obama did tweet that Graham was "a humble servant who prayed for so many," but the former president is still opting to skip the services. The message sent by this drops any pretense that Obama actually respects what Graham stood for.
None of this is overly surprising, at least for many American Christians. Obama, despite his claims of sharing their faith, routinely acted in a manner that showed disdain for the faithful. He rarely made an effort to reach out to Christians during his presidency, and actively targeted them with his policies and actions: See his stance on Hobby Lobby, and his never-forgotten feelings on rural Americans being simpletons clinging to guns and religion.
Obama worked to be divisive during his presidency, efforts that ran contrary to Graham's outreach to politicians of both parties, so it's not surprising Obama won't be there. It's not surprising that the best the former president can muster is a tweet for the fallen spiritual leader.
Yet Graham wouldn't harbor ill will toward Obama because of the slight. It's not the Christian way, after all.
If the former president wants to know why our nation is so divided these days, perhaps he would do well to look at this and remember his role in those divisions.
Have you ever made a slip of the tongue and misidentified your faith? I never did. From 2008:
OBAMA: What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith, and you’re absolutely right that that has not come …
STEPHANOPOULOS (interrupting): Your Christian faith.
OBAMA: My Christian faith — well, what I’m saying is …
STEPHANOPOULOS (interrupting): Connections, right.
>>>>
He doesn’t have to pretend any more...
Will he skip Jeremiah Wright’s eventual memorial? Hmmmm.
Heh. As if Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota boy would go to a Christian ceremony.
“That’s ok. I won’t be attending Hussein’s funeral.”
I’m thinking of holding my own private graveside service. After a few good India Pale Ales.
Makes sense, homosexuals hate Billy Graham..
“””a humble servant who prayed for so many,”””
What a stupid, stupid remark. That’s all he saw Billy Graham doing? Yeah, right - he traveled the world just praying!! This jerk doesn’t understand squat about Christianity.
It doesn’t matter who is being buried. The last place Franklin Graham and the President want to be is on the same stage as the Obamas and the Clintons. And the last place the Obamas and the Clintons want to be is on a stage with Franklin Graham and Trump. Let’s just call it a win/win for all involved and move on?
Obama is a possessed pig, scurrying from this who will attend.
I also heard that Bill Clinton will go to the funeral, but not Hillary. Does anyone else see a pattern here?
Not asked to speak, so can’t make it all about himself.
“I, I, I, me, me, me, my, my, my.”. ;)
“”Makes sense, homosexuals hate Billy Graham..””
Last week there was a horrid, horrid comment on Wikipedia on Billy Graham. I wasn’t going to post it but did go back to see if I remembered right and it’s gone now. My mouth dropped open at the time and I don’t think it’s fully recovered.
Who needs Satan’s emissary at this event...
None of the former Presidents are going to the funeral.
Obama was not invited.
Black tyrants are the anthitisis of Christian love
He’s not attending because he’s a Muslim Baby!
28 years of my life with bush, clinton, bush, husein.
JEEEEZZZZZZZ..............
ugh
Probably won’t be too many other Muslims there either.
I can beat you for miserable:
- - Kennedy (he sounds conservative now but he was a media/liberal sweetheart and he stole the election from Nixon)
- - Kennedy assassination
- - Johnson's “Great Society” he socialized everything (VietNam)
- - Nixon's resignation (imagine if Mueller made Trump resign)
Wish FR had an up-vote button...
Fine with me that he keeps his stench away.
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