Franklin Graham blames coronavirus on "sin"

[Archae]

What...an...asshole.

Franklin Graham blamed sinners for the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic during a Saturday night appearance on Fox News.

Host Jeanine Pirro noted the growing death toll and wondered how God could let that happen.

“Well, I don’t think it’s God’s plan for this to happen,” Graham said.

“It’s because of the sin that’s in the world, judge,” he argued.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/watch-franklin-graham-tells-jeanine-pirro-coronavirus-pandemic-is-because-of-people-sinning/

[TEB]

1. Yup

Yup a huuuuuge asshole

[C_U_L8R]

2. God said it's all Franklin Graham's fault

Who is Franklin Graham to disagree with God?

[cayugafalls]

3. What a useless idiot.

I despise religious hucksters.

[GulfCoast66]

4. I'm of the opinion that this will be the last stand of religious nuts having sway

I may be wrong. Would not be the first time!

But even my 82 year old religious mother thinks it is crazy that they are still holding services. She was a democrat most of her life but Fox News, church and abortion got her into the right wing cult.

Now she loves her Democrat Kentucky governor and thinks they should arrest ministers who still hold services.

I just say “yes, mother.” Because I love her and respect so much about her we don’t talk politics.

[safeinOhio]

7. I don't think you are wrong.

Love can win out in the long run.

[Kittycow]

20. My elderly mother followed the same path.

Mostly life-long Democrat until abortion, Catholic church political sermons, and Fox news changed her into a right wing meanie

I'm thankful that she raised me during her kind and gracious Democrat years so that I have a good grounding.

[RB TexLa]

5. Did he skip the entire New Testament?

[SCantiGOP]

6. It's been said before

But isn’t it a coincidence that everyone’s God hates the same people as they do?

[Cosmocat]

35. YEP

nm

[safeinOhio]

8. If you want to call yourselves a

Christian, start preaching those words in red.

[3Hotdogs]

9. Yeah, everyone knows its God's retribution for buggery, aborting, disrespecting His preachers who

spread His Word,

and the BIGGEST SIN OF ALL, FAILING TO TITHE.

[Lithos]

10. God has spoken

Stupid and sinful people like Franklin Graham are the cause of this virus.

L-

[bullimiami]

52. Greed, Pride, Gluttony. Look in the mirror, sinner.

[Bettie]

11. Bearing false witness?

Which in normal conversation is called lying?

Yeah, OK, maybe this is some supernatural power's retribution on those who do that every time they open their pieholes.

Including Mr. Graham. He should think about that next time he's verbally licking Orange Hitler's boots.

[lpbk2713]

12. Gawd created people like Graham to prove he has a sense of humor.

[Skittles]

14. I don't find anything amusing about religious freaks

no indeed

[lpbk2713]

15. I try to not take them seriously.

Ernest Angley is another whacko.

[Archae]

44. Angley is more or less out of the picture, now, due to him being such a pervert.

He probably still has his followers, though.

[Skittles]

50. you know it, Archae

[Capt. America]

13. Of course it is you tool.

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. I thought everything was God's plan n/t

[mr_lebowski]

17. So, it's not Gawds plan, it's just all that nasty SIN you see ...

The very act of 'sin' just magically conjures up disease and pestilence out of the aether, you see

And since that pestilence is NOT Gawd's 'plan', he's incapable of doing anything to combat the magic effects of sin.

Even though he's all powerful and supposedly intervenes in people's daily lives all the time.

He's just not going to this time, because ... you know ... sin. And plans.

Uh-huh.

That makes total sense.

Srsly how fucking stupid and backwards do you have to be to buy into abject bullshit like this?

[SammyWinstonJack]

32. Very fucking stupid and very backwards.

[ProfessorGAC]

37. That Doesn't Seem Omnipotent

There's a plan, but the plan is disrupted by sin. The plan of an omnipotent, omniscient being can be disrupted. By the actions or limited mortal?
Hmmmmm!

[meadowlander]

18. Yes, greed, selfishness and racism.

If the President had issued a national stay at home order on day one and nationalised industries to produce health care equipment this mess would be a fraction of what it is.

Instead, he went golfing with the other captains of industry bragging about how he could keep everything open while only disposable people died and blame it all on the Chinese.

[Squinch]

34. This exactly. It's the result of sin, alright. Just not the sins they are thinking of.

[dchill]

19. Then why doesn't Graham have it?

[Ahpook]

21. Of Course

Fucking fakes

[PufPuf23]

22. Who does Graham blame for making him such a horrid human?

What a match made in hell, Janine Pirro and Franklin Graham.

[Baltimike]

23. Is this the pool boy guy?

I can't keep them all straight

[Blue_true]

49. No, this one is the former druggie, like the My Pillow guy. nt

[stopbush]

24. For the Christians, everything that happens is about their god.

They never look at the REAL entity behind such problems - the Tooth Fairy.

[Cha]

25. Isn't it a sin being

a lying POS?

[A HERETIC I AM]

26. I blame Franklin Graham on.....

gullibility, but there you go.

There's never a 2X4 around when you need one.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

27. Yep, if Adam & Eve hadn't screwed around we wouldn't be in this mess.

Got in the apple wine, they did.........

[jmowreader]

28. More like a Matthew 6.5 violation

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full."

[zaj]

29. Here is what prayer 🙏 did.

Link to tweet

[mnhtnbb]

31. Oh, stop it with facts and numbers.

God obviously wanted those people to die. It was their time.

[DFW]

30. You can always count on the God Squad to be there

Whenever you need blame assigned somewhere convenient, or if you have extra cash you need to be rid of,

The God Squad is always there to help you with both.

[Squinch]

33. If it IS the plan of the Almighty, she seems to have picked a perfect

time and a perfect vehicle to use the absolute hubris of evangelicals and dickhead republicans against themselves.

[Under The Radar]

36. Perhaps because of the interest on loans that Jesus said not to charge?

Or could it be that evangelical pastors encourage credit card debit for church offerings.

[essme]

38. That's about as far as he can think. It's sad really

but, so many "religious people" think: God: Good Devil: Bad

Therefore everything, from stubbing your toe, to having your house burn down due to a faulty circuit, to storms, and pandemics, MUST be because you "sinned."

It's a sad, silly little worldview, and one that education could have helped.

[Chainfire]

39. These big-time preachers

Are not in the "God" business, they are in show business. Getting their names before the public means money in the bank. Redemption is what they sale so they blame the virus on sin. It is good for business. You want to save yourself from the virus? Keep those tithes and offerings rolling in.

[doc03]

40. Maybe this is Gawds plan to rid us of the Trump virus nt

[gibraltar72]

41. Using his premise Why are Chrisstains being punished also.

Why would she punish the righteous not just the sinners??

[robbob]

45. Easy, they weren't REAL christians

The “no true Scotsman” argument to the rescue!

[MrsCheaplaugh]

42. To follow up on this discussion...

Fox will host a debate on how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

I have to keep looking at the calendar to make sure this is 2020 and not 1348.

[scarytomcat]

46. What kind of god does this?

one that sends floods and plagues to punish all, for the sins of a few
leaves grieving people to worship with parishes spreading the germs
Why doesn't it reveal itself

[Massacure]

47. Franklin Graham needs to go outside.

Somebody's been playing too much Final Fantasy X.

[Blue_true]

48. The problem is they can twist any situation to meet their point of view.

It is impossible to rationally argue with that.

[OnDoutside]

51. But didn't he create Pool Boys ?

[Baked Potato]

53. Like he knows what any god has planned. Shifty mofo.

[Raven123]

54. Or it could be Mother Nature's revenge against willful ignorance.

[NNadir]

55. Well, worshipping a pussy grabbing, lying bearer of false witness, who covets anyone's wife...

...stealing, adulterer, who kills people with ignorance, who worships money before all other things, would make some people's God angry with them, wouldn't it.

What a moron.

[ck4829]

56. Disgusting