In a Nation Grown Indifferent Toward God
Franklin Graham:
'We Have Turned Our Backs on God'
Thursday, 15 Nov 2012
By Todd Beamon and Kathleen Walter
The Rev. Franklin Graham charged in an exclusive Newsmax TV
interview that America is in a deep economic quagmire because “we have
turned our backs on God.”
“The more we turn our backs on God, the bigger our problem becomes,”
Graham, the son of world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham, tells Newsmax
in a wide-ranging interview. “I didn’t hear any of the candidates say
that we needed to call our nation to prayer. I didn’t hear any of the
candidates say that we needed to ask God for help.
“We still think that we can work our way out of this problem – and I
don’t think we can,” Graham added. “I don’t have confidence in the
Republican Party right now, and I don’t have confidence in the
Democratic Party.
“I don’t believe there is leadership in Washington that can solve this
problem. We just deal with it as issues for the day, and it kicks the
can further and further down the road. We need God’s help to solve this
problem – we can’t go without God.”
Last week’s election results, which sent President Barack Obama back to
the White House for another four years, put the nation further along a
“path of destruction,” Graham said.
“There is no question that America has been a nation that has been
blessed by almighty God. There is no other nation in the history of
mankind that has done what his nation has done – and it’s because of
God’s hand and his blessing.
“In the last four years, we have begun to turn our backs on God,” Graham
reiterated. “We have taken God out of our education system. We have
taken him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time
you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum.
“What has happened is we have allowed ourselves to take God out
everything that we do – and I believe that God will judge our nation one
day.”
And, “maybe God will have to bring our nation to our knees – to where
that we just have a complete economic collapse” to do that, Graham said.
“Maybe at that point, people will again call upon the name of almighty
God.”
Though it will come as no surprise, I am in complete agreement.
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