Context: 1. Yes, it is good pray for leaders but consider what to pray. 2. The kindest explanation for Franklin Graham's support of Trump is "conservative judges." 3. Graham was critical of Trump for betraying the Kurds. That action was typical of Trump: ignorant, corrupt, cruel.
4. Graham has liked Trump since 2011 when both were "birthers" (after Graham liked Sarah Palin in 2008). 5. They have in common receiving money from their fathers and employing their kids.
6. Graham met with Putin in Nov 2015 and with the sanctioned Volodin in March 2019. 7. Graham has been paid 40 hour per week by BGEA and Samaritan's Purse making $1.2 million a year.
8. Graham has no theological education. 9. Operation Christmas Child is not an effective program. 10. Graham has overcome his siblings to monetize his parents' legacy including making sure his mother was buried against her wishes at a tourist attraction.
11. Franklin has moved the Billy Graham archives from Wheaton College to storage at the Billy Graham Library (which is not a library but a tourist attraction) in Charlotte and there is no archivist there.
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Note that the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association "exists to support and extend the evangelistic calling and ministry of Franklin Graham." I will just leave that there.
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