Have you guys seen this new Article? Franklin Graham says The Walking Dead ratings victory over NFL means Americans have turned their back on God and that America is going to HELL! ~First off, I want to say that I am a CHRISTIAN and LOVE GOD and I am SO proud of it. I was baptized 2 years ago. I also enjoy and love The Walking Dead. Does that make me a sinner? According to this guy, it does...Read the article below about what Billy Grahams son, Frank Graham had to say about WALKING DEAD FANS GOING TO HELL~! ~Tami #RicksChicks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Franklin Graham say America has turned their back on God and are going to hell because more people watched AMC’s “The Walking Dead” than NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” a couple of times this season Graham, the Islamophobic preacher, argues in a recent column that the popularity of “The Walking Dead,” as well as TV shows and video games that regularly deal with dying, shows Americans treat death – and the judgment he says will follow – in an offensively frivolous manner: Instead of watching footballs fly, 17 MILLION VIEWERS chose to watch the season premiere of The Walking Dead, a series featuring foul zombies creating endless havoc. Just a few weeks later, nearly 15 million people tuned in to yet another episode, easily surpassing that night’s matchup between the Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs. That program is just one of numerous television programs that have garnered tremendous followings by fixating on gore and death. At least half a dozen prime time shows are strangely enamored and captivated by it. These shows, when combined with hugely popular video games like Mortal Kombat, demonstrate how obsessed with death our culture has become. However, despite our society’s fascination and obsession with death, there is virtually no understanding of the eternal consequences that death brings. Amazingly, as much as the entertainment industry cranks out movies and programs that are preoccupied with death scenes and motifs, death is not a subject often candidly discussed. I think that’s because we would prefer to portray death on a purely fictional level and avoid its stark reality. The Bible says that once a person dies, he will face the judgment of God. “It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). There is no reincarnation. There is no second chance. Death is serious, eternal business. Once our physical hearts beat for the last time, we will instantly find ourselves either in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in all His splendor, or in the pit of hell away from His presence. Too bad Graham, like journalist Steve Almond did in his book “Against Football,” didn’t examine what Almond describes as the destructive role the sport plays in our national life. Graham’s column also doesn’t deal with the NFL’s walking dead – the players suffering from painkiller addiction, debilitating injuries and concussion-related depression and dementia. Billy Graham’s son also doesn’t address how some Christian thinkers have concluded that football violence may be incompatible with their beliefs. Here’s what Owen Strachan, who teaches theology and history at Boyce College, had to say in a 2013 column in Christianity Today: Football, more than any other mainstream American sport, depends on violence—the cultivation of violent instincts, the use of violence in the moment, and the game yields positive reinforcement after successful acts of violence. Some training in violence is necessary—soldiers defending their country, for example. But the culture of football should concern Christians. The number of football-related arrests, assaults on women and tiny children, murders, drug charges, and more should not glance off the evangelical conscience. The physical brutality of the game likely factors in here. Many of the athletes who have gone off the rails and killed themselves and others suffered from CTE. This is not conjecture. It is fact. We kid ourselves if we dont acknowledge the deleterious effect of continuously traumatic contact. nydailynews/blogs/iteam/graham-watch-football-not-walking-dead-blog-entry-1.2079909
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 03:05:06 +0000
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