Franklin Graham tells his followers to "pray for Putin"

[FelineOverlord]

Franklin must be raking in the rubles.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[wryter2000]

1. I used to pray for Trump when he was president

Never did any good. He never changed.

[Lonestarblue]

13. I used to pray for him, too, but my prayer was a bit different--involves serious health issues!

Like heart attacks, strokes, extreme dementia, etc. No apologies—I despise the cretin.

[lastlib]

31. I occasionally prayed for God to change his heart.....

...into a bulging, fiery blob of angina......I guess the answer was "no"............

[Comfortably_Numb]

38. .....that you know of. Tick tock Donnie.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

51. Graham had heart surgery in November

Sadly it wasn't a transplant. The heart of stone was just protected.

"constrictive pericarditis, inflammation, and hardening of the sac around the heart that compresses the heart and prevents it from working properly.
The surgery involved removing the pericardium, the statement said."

[Demovictory9]

57. so he actually has a heart

[Farmer-Rick]

32. I use to pray Trump would get COVID

While hundreds of thousands of Americans were getting infected, sick and dying......and he did get COVID and he gave it to thousands of people

I'm not so sure it was a prayer but more like a wish...since I don't believe in any gods. There really isn't any difference between praying and wishing. It's all magical thinking.

[Crunchy Frog]

35. I prayed for him when he had Covid. Didn't do any good though. ☠️

[lame54]

2. "Always side with the bully" - Pontius Pilate

[Lars39]

3. He's a vulture

Spurring on his anti-American followers to more foul deeds.
I remember it was about a week after Dubya bombed Iraq that Franklin Graham was in Iraq looking around. I still wonder how many U.S. troops died because of his little visit.

[CentralMass]

4. What a twisted degenerate..

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. For his death??

[onecaliberal]

6. :

[Cha]

7. F Fucking Graham's a Fascist Idiot.

[PufPuf23]

8. Franklin could pray for his followers to pay for Franklin to be hit by lightning,

pretty much a win-win scenario.

If Franklin does not get hit by lightning, their perceived god at best does not listen to their prayers and is not a just and loving god; and at worse from Franklin's perspective, a smoking ash of Franklin.

Toxic Christianity needs to be addressed if the USA is to survive as a united nation.

[roamer65]

9. Jesus is gonna have extra fun with this idiot.

I hope I get to see it.

[dalton99a]

10. Goddamn scum

[MacKasey]

11. I will pray for President Biden to stop this agression

[TomSlick]

12. Jesus wept.

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ON EDIT:

Graham's statement is that we should pray that God will change Putin's heart and move away from war. This statement was entirely appropriate.

I don't like the guy but even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then.

[Traildogbob]

14. They would

Savor his liberal tears. Would sell mugs with trumps face to drink them out of.

[durablend]

26. Then they'd get the nail guns out and get to work

[Traildogbob]

48. You are correct

Too lazy to hammer.

[634-5789]

28. AMEN!

[Old Crank]

15. This is the tweet

I'm not a Graham fan at all.

Here is the tweet. He says we need to pray for him to change his heart.

https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1494796401779351558

[groundloop]

23. Thanks for the link - I suspected it was something more along these lines.

Pray for President Putin today. This may sound like a strange request, but we need to pray that God would work in his heart so that war could be avoided at all cost. May God give wisdom to the leaders involved in these talks & negotiations, as well as those advising them.

I'm not a fan of Franklin by any means, but at least let's not take his words out of context.

[Ex Lurker]

53. I tried to alert for abuse

but this didn't fit into any of the categories. There should be on for "false or misleading information"

[Old Crank]

56. Need that

This post is what we accuse Trumpers of doing.

[llmart]

33. So, if Putin doesn't "change his heart"...

what will be their rationalization for their God not hearing their prayers?

I'm sure there'll be one. There always is when prayers aren't answered.

[AllTooEasy]

45. God Answers ALL prayers, and sometimes the answer is...

“NO”

maybe even “Hell No!”

The consequences of Free Will are sometimes a bitch! Unfortunately Putin has Free Will too. I just wish someone close to Putin would use their Free Will to….well, I’ll exercise my free will and won’t say it, because some ultra-pacifist DUer will exercise their free will and flag me, again.

[TomSlick]

49. I should have looked behind the thread title before reacting.

Praying for Putin to back away from war is appropriate. I assumed the worst about Graham based on my dislike for the man.

I was wrong.

[hippywife]

55. So go back and edit it.

You can edit it to keep this from being misinformation by adding that you were wrong and posting the correction.

I'm no fan of either person, but I'm even less a fan of disinformation.

[TomSlick]

61. Sound advice.

[hippywife]

62. I'm sorry, I thought you were the OP

when I posted that. Need to redirect that comment to them.

[TomSlick]

64. Nevertheless, you were right about my post - I've edited.

[SouthernDem4ever]

16. Wasn't Franklin the one caught with his pants down?

He needs the prayers more than pootin.

[DFW]

21. I think that was Falwell, Jr.

Not that Graham is any more believable as a "spiritual" man.

[SouthernDem4ever]

67. Thanks for the correction

they all look alike to me.

[DFW]

69. And they all sound alike to everyody n/t

[roamer65]

17. Putin lovers need visits from the FBI.

[3catwoman3]

18. As someone who was born in 1951 and grew up...

...doing duck-and-cover drills, and hearing my mother blame the Communists/Russians for pretty much everything bad in the world, including dust bunnies under the beds (slight exaggeration here, but not much), I have great difficulty understanding why any American would be rooting for Putin.

[Botany]

19. Last summer I was in north central VA and I left..

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.. with the thought that Christian Evangelicals were one of the biggest threats to America. They smile and talk about being "blessed" but in reality they are black hearted bastards who think their "sky God" makes them superior to others, that the Confederacy was really,
God's army, and that Trump was a sign of God's love for them because nothing tastes as sweet as a liberal's tears.

[electric_blue68]

59. There actually are Liberal Christian Evangelicals...

I occasionally would hear one talking to a radio host on Air America.

[sakabatou]

20. Move to Russia then, Graham!

[DFW]

22. At least, the Republicans and their followers are finally being forced to show their true allegiance

And it is NOT to the United States.

[KS Toronado]

24. If Franklin Graham wants christians to pray for Putin

when will the rest of the evangelicals fall in step? And will the repug party then have to join
in on account of being the religious party with family values and need to support them?

[rurallib]

42. I think Franklin has already gauged to feelings of the evagelicals

and other so-called Christians and decided to fall in line with them.

[Initech]

25. Fucking tratior!

[dchill]

27. Ok, that's IT! I don't like him anymore!

[paleotn]

29. Only good thing about Junior Graham....

he's not operating under the facade his father did. Billy Graham was just as much a piece of shit as his son. Liars, cheats and scoundrels for gaaawwwwd.

[KentuckyWoman]

30. Total misrepresentation. Graham did not say this.

It takes 3 seconds or less to go to Facebook and see what he actually said.

Pray for President Putin. This may sound like a strange request, and I might get some angry comments, but we need to pray that God would work in his heart so that war—and the loss of thousands of lives—could be avoided at all cost. May God give wisdom to the leaders involved in these talks and negotiations, as well as those advising them. Our prayers might make the difference between life and death.

https://www.facebook.com/FranklinGraham

Yeah, Graham is a skunk but lets keep it real.

[groundloop]

37. Too bad there's not an alert category for false information

I despise the right wing for taking everything said by Democrats out of context, we don't need to do that here. There's plenty of legitimate issues to despise righties for without making stuff up.

[catrose]

39. Jesus did say to pray for your enemies. I just hadn't seen FG paying much attention to JC

[SouthernDem4ever]

68. noted!

[Crunchy Frog]

34. I doubt it's kompromat. Most likely just shared values.

[musclecar6]

36. Wait ......... What ?

Isn’t Franklin Graham one of those evangelicals that believes “ Grab em by the pussy Don” never makes a false step. Now he wants us to pray for another megalomaniac like the Orange Nazi !?!?!?! Sheesh.

[keopeli]

40. Twitter posting is NOT the news. Please, this is what got us into our mess in the first place.

Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you read. - quote by my mom.

Still, I believe Frank did this to get clicks. You don't usually call for prayers for the perpetrator. You usually pray for the victim. This is likely slight of hand, knowing it would get lots of clicks. Frank is certainly immoral, but he's not dumb.

[thinkingagain]

41. Don't like graham but there is more to the tweet we shouldn't spread musinformation

Other person tweets explain better than I


Grand Masker Kushibo, MPH
@kushibo
Replying to
@rexzane1
Not true. It is literally that a war will be avoided.


Franklin Graham

Feb 18
Pray for President Putin today. This may sound like a strange request, but we need to pray that God would work in his heart so that war could be avoided at all cost. May God give wisdom to the leaders involved in these talks & negotiations, as well as those advising them.

& then

Grand Masker Kushibo, MPH
@kushibo
Replying to @TeaPainUSA
Far be it for me to ever sing the praises of the FauXian that is Franklin Graham, but his words are being taken completely out of context. H

[ShazzieB]

50. I agree.

I was raised a Southern Baptist, which is basically old school evangelical Christianity, and I can assure you that praying for world leaders to be guided in their decisions or (as in this case) praying for someone's "heart and mind" to be changed so that they see the error of their ways is absolutely nothing new. Whether this has any effect is a whole separate conversation. All I am saying is that there is nothing new, shocking, or treasonous about this.

Prayer is a HUGE thing in these people's lives, and they pray about everything and "for" everyone. All. The. Damned. Time. It's like that Geico commercial says: It's what they do. Prayer is a very BFD to them. Whatever is on their minds, they pray about it, and the looming thread of war in Ukraine is certainly something that is weighing on a lot of people's minds right now.

I realize the whole concept of asking God to make things better sounds silly and childish to a lot of people, but that's a whole separate issue and, imo, neither nor there. The point is that it should not be shocking to anyone when an evangelical preacher tells his followers to prayer for someone like Putin.

Personally, I can't stand Franklin Graham. I think he's flat, dead wrong about a lot of things, and he represents a brand of Christianity that I consider to be toxic in many ways. Anyone who wants to tear a strip off of him when it comes to his anti-LGBTQ+ views, his toxic misogyny, etc., is more than welcome to do so, afaic. But the idea that his asking people to pray for Putin neans he's some sort of pro-Putin traitor is just plain silly. I don't think he wants Ukraine to be invaded any more than we do. He's just telling his people to do what they would do in response to any problem, large or small: pray about it and pray for the people involved. This is s.o.p. for those folks, and people need to quit reading things into this that aren't there and blowing it all out of proportion.

[COL Mustard]

43. I'll give Putin the same prayer I gave Trump.

May his days in office be few, and another take his place.

[keithbvadu2]

44. Pray to Trump?

Sovereign citizen praying to Donald Trump

[Mr. Ected]

46. Even the Righteous Gemstones would be appalled

His daddy must be doing flips in his tomb.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

47. Hey! Let's send him tots and pears too!

🙄

[sky_masterson]

52. I miss Republican classic.

When Russia was an enemy to them and they put US interest first.
Back in the before time, in the long long ago.

[Blue Owl]

54. I'll pray for Putin... to fucking croak...

[Raine]

58. I imagine the intent is to pray that Putin comes to his senses

and does the decent thing by leaving Ukraine alone. 🤔

[patricia92243]

60. Wow! Just wow! This shows how much organized religion has fallen. Sad for

them and sad for the USA.

[hippywife]

63. You've been told that these tweets are not accurate more than 12 hours ago.

As much as I despise these two people, these tweets are inaccurate, inflammatory and this posts makes you and DU look ignorant. Please update this to correct the record.

[rockfordfile]

65. kick him out of our country

[ornotna]

66. Scumbag traitor can kiss my ass

Pray for the Russian not the President of the United States? What a waste of skin.