The son speaks-again A very revealing interview with Franklin Graham. I don't disagree with everything he says-his candor is bracing. Mr. Graham believes in an active living God-that much is clear. Unfortunately, it seems that it has created in his mind a black & white rendering of the world. Here are some choice snippets:

I believe the Qur’an teaches violence. It doesn’t teach peace, it teaches violence. But nowhere in Scripture do you ever hear the Lord Jesus Christ instructing violence, and when they came to arrest him in the Garden of Gethsemane and Peter pulls his sword and says he’s going to defend Jesus—Jesus tells Peter to put it away. Jesus would never have a part in that sort of activity. This is the greatest name in all of history and has stirred up more controversy, more division. You get into a group of people and mention Muhammad, you’ll have some nice discussion. But you mention the name of Jesus Christ, now you’re gonna have a very lively discussion and maybe heated arguments and it will divide. Because it’s the name of God’s son, the Lord Jesus Christ. .... You would like to see peace, where the Jew and their cousins, the Palestinians, could live side-by-side in peace and harmony. You would love to see that. But this notion that the Palestinians have to have their own state—never in history have the Palestinians ever had their own state. Why should they have it now? I have many Palestinian friends, and I love them and my heart breaks for them, and I see what has happened to their homes and businesses and the difficulty. The Israelis have been very difficult and have made it very hard on many Palestinians. It breaks your heart. There’s enough finger-pointing to go both ways. But I have to look at Scripture as a minister of the Gospel. Whose land is it? God created this earth, and he can give this to whomever he chooses.