Evangelist leads 'disinformation campaign' on Obama: Religion professor

[babylonsister]

And good ole cnn gives Graham a big platform to spew; their mimicry of faux is going according to schedule, it seems.


Evangelist leads 'disinformation campaign' on Obama: Religion professor
07:40 PM

By Chuck Burton, AP


Rev. Franklin Graham is leading a "disinformation campaign" against President Obama by attacking Obama's Christian faith and distorting Islam's theology, says a leading religion professor.

After CNN's John King gave Graham a full news cycle to raise a lifted eyebrow at President Obama's Christian profession of faith, Stephen Prothero, religion professor at Boston University, came on King's show Friday night to undercut Graham and question why CNN would ask an evangelist known to slur Islam, to speculate on its theology.

According to a transcript released by CNN, Prothero, author of God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World, told King, the finding in a recent survey that 18% of Americans believe Obama is Muslim ...

... is because we have people who are supposed to be responsible public leaders, like Franklin Graham, who are spreading what seems to me like a sort of disinformation campaign... What Franklin Graham should say: 'Barack Obama says he's a Christian, he's a Christian, end of story.'

Prothero also pointed out that Obama prayed with Franklin and his father, America's most famous living evangelist, Rev. Billy Graham, in May but Franklin still repeatedly used the "if" word to answer King's questions Thursday on whether Obama has accepted Christ.

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http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2010/08/obama-franklin-graham-christian-cnn-john-king/1

[mwooldri]

1. I guess Rev. Franklin Graham is a "doubting Thomas".

There appears to be a whole bunch of people who will still believe Mr. Obama follows Islam rather than Christ - and even if Jesus Himself came down to earth to tell all these doubters that Mr. Obama is one of His, they may still well not believe.

[LiberalFighter]

2. And John King did what to help stop the spread of disinformation?