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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2009-12-25

The Gathering: "The next generation of believers seems to be making social justice issues such as poverty, disease, orphans, clean water, etc. a real priority. What do you think about that?"

Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham): "None of that is our mandate. Jesus never said, 'I want you to go out and alleviate the poor in the world.' ...So many churches and so many pastors today are going directions Jesus never told us to go into. He said, 'you'll always have the poor with you.'"

-- interview, September, 2009

"Dr. Graham seems to have forgotten about Matthew 25:31-45." -- Louis @ Blogger, 2009-12-18

"Right, it's official. They have a different Jesus to the one everyone else knows about." -- [info] - personal ironed_orchid, 2009-12-20

To those celebrating the second most important holiday of my faith today (as opposed to doing so on the Julian calendar), and to everyone celebrating a secularized be-with-family day or the even more secular Conspicuous Consumption Day: Merry Christmas! To my friends not celebrating today (or celebrating Chinese-food-and-a-movie day), I wish a happy and peaceful day upon you too, and hey, at least the incessant Christmas Muzak is nearly finished for the year, eh?

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posted by (anonymous) at 02:12pm on 2009-12-25
Oddly, Graham seems to have forgotten about a good bit of the Bible - at least what Christians like to refer to as the "Old Testament." In fact, the verse he refers to actually follows another verse which states that if you lend your aid to the poor there will be no poor among you. If he quotes one, he needs to quote the other - A Jewish commentator (among many) on the apparent contradiction of those verses, notes (I very loosely paraphrase for effect)that prophecy is not foretelling the future - prophets aren't masters of hocus pocus and entrail reading, but rather is an ethical and theological commentary - this is how things should be. The verses appear we aid the poor, then there l be no poor amongst us, if we fail to do God's will then the poor shall never disappear from the land.
-Alana
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