Rev. Graham: Obama 'born a Muslim' - POLITICO.com
Rev. Franklin Graham on Friday said that President Barack Obama was “born a Muslim” because the religion’s “seed” is passed from the father.
Graham made the claim during an interview with CNN’s John King set to air Friday night after being asked about a new Pew polling showing that 31 percent of Republicans believe the president – a Christian – is Muslim.
Asked by King if he too believes the president is a Muslim, Graham said that Obama’s “problem is he was born a Muslim.”
“The seed is passed through the father,” Graham said. “He was born a Muslim. His father was a Muslim, the seed of Muslim is passed through the father like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother. He was born a Muslim, his father gave him an Islamic name.”
Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham, acknowledged that Obama has said he is a Christian.
"He has renounced Islam and he has accepted Jesus," Graham said. “That's what he has said he has done. I cannot say that he hasn't, so I just have to believe the president is what he has said.”
“But the confusion is because his father is a Muslim, he was born a Muslim. The Islamic world sees the president as one of theirs, that's why Qaddafi calls him his son. They see him as a Muslim,” he added. “But, of course, the president says he is a Christian and we just have to accept it as that.”
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Ministers like Graham do more to injure and discredit Christianity than any non believer could ever do. They cause non Christians to ridicule Christians as a group of lunatics, liars and just plain nuts. This type of behavior is affront to any thinking Christian. Unfortunately he is following in the footsteps of his father who engaged in similar behavior in his younger days. Ministers have a high calling. So many fail to live up to that responsibility. This statement clearly contradicts the express words of the bible he professes to believe in which says upon accepting Christ as your lord and savior "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead" 1Peter 1-3 New American Translation.
The problem with many evangelical pastors is that they tend to br poorly educated, poorly read and intellectually dead. As a result they are steeped in the same bigotry and prejudices as other similarly situated citizens. The problem is that many Christians and non Christians hear there statements and believe this is Christianity. These types of statements chase many people away from the church, good people who do not want to be associated with this type of ignorance and bigotry. Reverend Billy Graham was notorious for his open support for the corrupt President Richard Nixon and also the unpopular and morally indefensible War in Vietnam. No wonder so many highly educated and well read people reject organized religion.
John H. Armwood
President Obama has explained in his memoirs that his father was indeed born a Muslim, according to a Time Magazine article by Barack Obama in 2006, Barack Obama Sr.'s deep skepticism of religion eventually led to his atheism:
My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition.
What these "Christian" leaders will not acknowledge is the fact that Islam bears a seed from Abraham, just like Christianity. Jesus preached tolerance, knowing that the gospel could not be spread with closed minds and deaf ears.
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