Evangelist Franklin Graham laid down the law on his Facebook page this week about the Reason Rally — the atheist event at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday.
On his Facebook page, Graham said the irony that he saw with the event’s chosen location, specifically pointing out that there’s a reference to the Almighty that was placed inside of the memorial.
“Isn’t it ironic that they met on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial where these words are engraved in stone: ‘We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation UNDER GOD shall have a new birth of freedom,’” Graham wrote. “President Abraham Lincoln acknowledged the inherent role God plays in establishing our rights and freedoms and so did many of our founding fathers.”
The evangelist also complained about the issues that Reason Rally organizers pinpointed as important to their cause prior to the event: climate change, gay and lesbian issues and reproductive rights, detailing his concern with their issues.
“The atheists said this was definitely a political event, and they are holding it in an election year because, they ‘want to see reason taking precedence over religious-driven ideology,” Graham wrote. ”This liberal godless kind of what they call ‘reason’ should concern every freedom-loving American.”
He said that the atheists behind the event want to “strip God out of America’s past, present and future,” and he offered up a warning: “If you remove God, you remove God’s hand of blessing. That’s been shown over and over throughout history.”
In his blog post, Graham, who is also the president of the humanitarian organization Samaritan's Purse, urged Christians to pushback against the secular agenda by continuing to evangelize in the "ever-growing secular world."
"Now these atheists promoting secularism want to strip God out of America's past, present and future," Graham added. "Here's a warning — If you remove God, you remove God's hand of blessing. That's been shown over and over throughout history."
"One day each of these people is going to stand before the God that they disown, and they will face an eternity in Hell if they have not trusted Christ as their Savior," Graham added. "That's where this kind of 'reason' will get them. The Bible says, 'There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death,' (Proverbs 14:12)."
