Franklin Graham: You'll see Jesus' return on Twitter, YouTube
Evangelist Franklin Graham tells ABC's This Week host Christiane Amanpour:
The Bible says that every eye is going to see (the second coming). How is the whole world going to see (Jesus Christ) all at one time? I don't know, unless all of a sudden everybody's taking pictures and it's on the media worldwide. I don't know. Social media could have a big part in that...
Everybody's got their phone up and everybody's taking recordings and posting it on YouTube and whatever and sending it to you, and it gets shown around the world."
Maybe this is not a surprising conclusion by the son of Billy Graham, the now-retired world-traveling evangelist who made a global mark using every medium available to spread the Good News.
However, unlike his Daddy, who got out of politics pretty quickly after an early brush with being too outspoken, Franklin is not shy about endorsing. Indeed, he may be out early with a "candidate of choice" -- Donald Trump, who, On Politics reports, is the GOP front runner in the 2012 presidential race.
Now, Trump is not exactly noted as a voice of faith although he recently boasted in an interview with CBN that he goes to church...
as much as I can. Always on Christmas. Always on Easter... I'm a Sunday church person. I'll go when I can."
Perhaps Graham heard the interview on The 700 Club, where Trump elaborated:
I believe in God. I am Christian. I think The Bible is certainly, it is THE book. ... I'm a protestant, I'm a Presbyterian. And you know I've had a good relationship with the church over the years. I think religion is a wonderful thing. I think my religion is a wonderful religion.
Maybe that's what attracted Graham. He tells Amanpour:
Donald Trump, when I first saw that he was getting in, I thought, well, this has got to be a joke. But the more you listen to him, the more you say to yourself, you know, maybe this guy's right.
Earlier this year, Graham defended Palin vigorously from critics who said her violent imagery during the 2010 elections helped set the mood that led to the Tucson, Ariz., shooting rampage. In a statement from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association he now heads, he called her ...
a kind and compassionate, God-fearing woman who believes with all her heart that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
Now, he tells Amanpour, Palin would prefer speaking to issues than putting herself into a race again.
And what about Romney? Amanpour lets him get by with calling him capable and leaving it at that. What? No question about whether a Baptist evangelist is going to okay a Mormon candidate? Evidently not.
WHICH OF GRAHAM'S FORECASTS... would you believe in? The Second Coming on YouTube? Trump for president?
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