By Frank Schaeffer | 2 October 2019
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Evangelical leader Franklin Graham is amplifying the violence-loving comments Trump repeated in a tweet, that if Democrats impeach him (or he loses in 2020) it will cause a “Civil War.” Graham on Facebook also falsely claimed that Democrats are going to “take your guns,” a claim made only by former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, and related only to assault weapons.
“The socialist Democrats’ message to the United States of America is: 1. We’re going to take your guns, and 2. We’re going to impeach your president,” Graham wrote on the social media platform to his 8 million followers.
He credited Dr. Robert Jeffress as the originator of the “Civil War” claim, saying the far right wing megachurch pastor had “warned on Fox News that this could ‘cause a civil war-like fracture in this nation from which this country will never heal.’ I don’t know about that,” Graham claimed, “but I can tell you this could lead to conflict that nobody wants if they continue down this road.”
Nobody wants it? Wrong: the evangelical right is itching to kill in the name of Jesus. They want America to become their version of Iran and Saudi Arabia – an intolerant theocracy they lead through their man Trump.
Graham is literally suggesting that if Trump is impeached or if Democrats institute an assault weapons buyback program, conservatives and Christians will have no choice but to launch a civil war.
“Pray that God would change the hearts of Democratic leaders in Washington and that they would see the dangerous road that we’re on,” he implored.
Graham’s post spread quickly on Facebook, and his followers were only too happy to support his extremist and divisive rhetoric.
More than 7000 comments posted in under one hour. They called the Democrats evil and called for stocking more guns and ammunition “in every real Christian’s home.”
White evangelicals are an armed American Nazi Party.
Trump says Adam Schiff, should be arrested for treason. Trump’s evangelical booster Robert Jeffress threatens civil war if Trump’s impeached. Trump calls the whistle blower a spy and threatens punishment – death. Wake up America.
Trump is a fascist thug leading evangelical ISIS-like terrorists. Add Robert Jeffress to Trump, Trump to Fox News, Fox to white nationalists, white nationalists to the NRA, the NRA to the Republican Party, the Republicans to the fossil fuel climate deniers, and you’ve described the empire of darkness driving the USA and our planet into oblivion.
This is what Trump wants from Republicans: to fight and die in a bloody civil conflict to bail him out of the mile-deep mineshaft he’s dug in a lifetime of bottomless corruption. That’s how he sees his evangelical fans – a human shield for him, worthless in itself, dumb, laughable but useful.
Are the gun-toting violence-loving white evangelicals following Jeffress going to kill us for Trump’s sake?
Reprinted with permission from the author.
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Trump should know better than to have these folks running around here saying things like this! Evangelicals even. It's nothing but a brainwash job bring presented to everyday Americans. This preacher, pastor or whatever you want to call him is "talking up a kind of violence that is not healthy and Trump should denounce it. Instead, he says nothing. If something like this predicted violence was to happen my question is:
Where would this preacher AND Trump be? On the front line leading the charge? Absolutely NOT! So, don't allow these doomsday instigators fool you into "biting off more than you can chew".
Franklin Graham is wrong. Jesus taught us love, peace, kindness and tolerance. Billy Graham would be horrified to see his son promoting violence.
They are birds of a feather and you must know that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
Trump and Graham are unAmerican, destructive non-Christians calling for violence and committing treason.
Now Graham is guilty of sedition.
The seditionists won’t be there when Trump and his well heeled enablers take their private jets to escape the chaos and anarchy they leave in their wake .
Trump was impeached in December 2019.
Stalin was right, religion is the enemy of peace.
This is NOT religion. It is insanity.
Bring it on.
#45 seems happy to encourage fundamentalist (for a good laugh, look up definition 2b in Websters Collegiate Dictionary of the word fundament) "christians" to wallow in a Faustian bargain to pursue the illusion of their own power. #45 has destroyed, ripped off and/or bankrupted all he has ever been involved with. Could his biggest project be the destruction of the USA from which he plans to flee with a major portion of the national treasury in his jet to New Zealand, Tasmania, Patagonia, or Tierra del Fuego when it seems the nukes or some other agent of total destruction are nigh? Then, when his lemming base are falling off the cliff after him, they can see his jet fly off into the distance, leaving them behind to their doom on the rocks below.