The Far-flung Apple: Franklin Graham Pandering for Tea

Teaparty.org repeats an article from Newsmax.com that claims that the Obama administration is taking advice from the Muslim brotherhood.

"The Muslim Brotherhood, with the complicity of the Obama administration, has infiltrated the U.S. government at the highest levels and is influencing American policy that leaves the world’s Christians in grave danger, warns internationally known evangelist Franklin Graham"

Here's the problem. Rev. Graham does not supply a single fact. No names. No dates. Nothing but hot air and fear.

Unlike his father, who understood that Christ's real message was one of non-judgment and love, Graham the Younger spreads fear and hate for Muslim's. Then, without a single shred of evidence presented, he pretends to know what the Obama Administration is doing.

The articles goes on to quote a Vatican report that Christians are being persecuted in unprecedented number around the world. Would that have anything to do with the fact that every war the United States has gotten involved in the last 30 years has been portrayed as a crusade for a righteous "Christian" nation?

Interestingly, our founding father made it explicit that this is not a Christian country.

Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, signed under President Washington, states:

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."(1)

It is time we remember what this nation was founded upon: absolute religious tolerance. The very 18th Century idea that all men are created equal. 

And a bit of simple truth: If you speak of a man as your enemy, your enemy he will become. And just because someone made a man a "Reverend" neither makes him wise nor moral.