The Beginning....

The Beginning....
When William Least Heat-Moon toured the country many years ago, his steed, if you will, was a van that he named Ghost Dancing. His journey of America was 13,000 miles. His book is Blue Highways, A Journey Into America. My steed will be a Subaru WRX (traded for an XV Crosstrek). My travels will be, what in the past were called, the blue highways of Virginia. Years ago, maps showed secondary roads in blue. Yes, the ones less traveled.

Friday, January 16, 2015

Your Religion is Weirder Than Mine..... Chapter Two. Ahh, the Grahams, Billy and Franklin.

Let's see, where to start?                                                                                                   


Do you folks remember, Romney? Yes, the fellow who wanted to be president a while back. Initially, Billy Graham had said Romney's religion, Mormonism, was a cult. 

Then, Romney went to visit Graham, supplicated himself I assume, and all of a sudden, just like that, Graham no longer considered Mormonism a cult. Yes, just like that. BTW, at that time there was no mention of magic underwear.

OK. What's going on now?

Recently, Duke stated they were going to sound the horn, or whatever it's called, to announce the call to prayer for their Muslim students. And, here's what Franklin, Billy's son, had to say. 

Franklin Graham, son of legendary evangelist Billy Graham, took to his Facebook page to call on donors to pressure the university into reversing course.

On the page, Graham says "Duke University announced today that they will have a Muslim call to prayer from their chapel bell tower every Friday. As Christianity is being excluded from the public square and followers of Islam are raping, butchering, and beheading Christians, Jews, and anyone who doesn’t submit to their Sharia Islamic law, Duke is promoting this in the name of religious pluralism. I call on the donors and alumni to withhold their support from Duke until this policy is reversed."


This quote from WLOS, an ABC station.......


And, so it goes in the world of religion......

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