Speaking of which, you may remember our buddy Billy Graham,
who is a famous Christian evangelist.
His son Franklin Graham is pretty well known in the uh Christian world.
But he also has a slightly less well known daughter, Anne Graham Lotz.
She showed up on a right-wing radio show hosted by Steve ????
and it was really really bad.
She decided to talk about the right-wing moral crusade of the day
which of course right now, is telling transgender people how and where to go to the bathroom,
and she was able Louis, and this, this took some real rhetorical skill,
She was able to tie it into a 9/11 conspiracy theory.
The main points are, God has forsaken the US because of transgenders,
the teaching of evolution, and gay people.
and God allows bad things to happen because he wants to remind us humans,
that we need him. Let's take a look at the first clip here.
This is Anne Graham Lotz, the daughter of Billy Graham.
I'm fond of, and I don't know if it's good, I just like saying it. So I hope it is,
But I have said many times, Anne, that knowing
God's will is easy.
Or, is simple, but it's not easy
I mean what you're describing is very simple
um, and God tries to keep things simple
it doesn't get much simpler than, I want to be known to the point that I will become one of you
so that you can know me as one of you, as God among us,
Emmanuel, God dwells with us.
I will even come and dwell in you later. I'll put my spirit in you, that's how much I want to be in communion with you.
So I mean that makes things pretty simple,
but it's not that easy, I mean the prayer you're describing sounds simple enough,
What is wrong with the human hearts however, that it's just not easy?
I think it's not easy necessarily, because we don't think we really need it.
and so we're struggling with our own pride, or self-sufficiency,
and I think that's why God allows bad things to happen.
I think that's why he would allow a 9/11 to happen, or some of these other, the attack in San Bernadino, or some of these other places
to show us that we need him.
You know we're desperate without him.
And then when you're desperate and you cry out to him, that's not hard.
Ok so now I hope you're sitting down for part 2.
Here are some of the specifics of what God is just so upset about
that he would allow 9/11 to happen.
America right now, I mean the chaos on every level, is just God turning us over to ourselves.
we're using out own common sense which is not even common sense anymore
its silliness, there's craziness, I mean the most illogical rulings.
The um... the one in North Carolina and this one on HB 2
which is to protect our children in bathrooms and locker rooms, has become
something where the justice department is suing us
for something that is just common sense
you know its ludicrous,
and so, to me it's evidence that God has backed away
and he's removed his hand, blessings, favor, protection, and he's just turning us over to ourselves.
that's a very frightening place to be.
but the bible says that if
you and I, as God's people, humble ourselves, and pray and seek his face,
and if we would repent of our sins and stop
stop pointing our fingers at everybody else, but if we
as God's people, would get serious about this sin in our own lives-
She also went on to blame the teaching of evolution and secularism as the reason why God is allowing bad stuff to happen
Is this a con artist or a mentally ill person?
Is there any real way to tell?
And does it even matter?
There's no way to tell and maybe it doesn't matter
When I hear someone say that
God uses Muslims to punish Christian Americans,
because of gay
I just think, uh
Do I even think about it at all anymore? Or do I just dismiss it?
This is very disturbing content though, right?
To someone who might be influenced by what this person is saying,
this type of nonsense in society is an objectively negative influence,
People like Anne Graham Lotz and Franklin Graham, the whole bunch,
they parrot this insane logic.
When bad things happen to purely innocent people, like the sexual abuse of a child,
they claim, God didn't come down and stop it because of free will
and uhh, because God works in mysterious ways
but at the same time, they claim that God comes down and takes action, because
of social trends like gay marriage
and a transgender bathroom policy.
He'll punish people for gay marriage, but he won't stop the child rapist
because of free will and working in mysterious ways,
This is just damaging to people. There is no positive influence of that type of garbage.
um... I think there's no
Ok, I won't get into it,
but religion tends to be confusing and not make much sense most of the time.