Franklin Graham and the Police Shootings of Black Citizens

[AthenaAwakened]

Listen up--Blacks, Whites, Latinos, and everybody else. Most police shootings can be avoided. It comes down to respect for authority and obedience. If a police officer tells you to stop, you stop. If a police officer tells you to put your hands in the air, you put your hands in the air. If a police officer tells you to lay down face first with your hands behind your back, you lay down face first with your hands behind your back. It’s as simple as that. Even if you think the police officer is wrong—YOU OBEY. Parents, teach your children to respect and obey those in authority. Mr. President, this is a message our nation needs to hear, and they need to hear it from you. Some of the unnecessary shootings we have seen recently might have been avoided. The Bible says to submit to your leaders and those in authority “because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account.”

https://www.facebook.com/FranklinGraham/posts/883361438386705

Obediance to authority even when the authority is wrong.

Way to go, Frank.

 

[KeepTalking]

If a police officer tells you to drop trou, bend over and spread your cheeks, you drop trou, bend over and spread your cheeks...

If a police officer tells you to give him oral, you give him oral...

If a police officer tells you to show your tits, you show your tits...

All of this and more will keep you from being shot dead by the cops, that and being a white male like Franklin Graham, but mostly the latter.

 

[bilby]

If a police officer tells you to round up your neighbours and force them into concentration camps...

If a police officer tells you to get into an unmarked truck at 2am...

If a police officer tells you to kneel at the edge of a freshly dug pit...

Obedience solves all problems. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[ideologyhunter]

Franklin is a major dick. At least the old man made his major gaffe on one of Nixon's secret tapes. The sister, whatever her name is, how does she get past the NT's injunction that women must never instruct men, and in fact, are to shut their pie holes in church and save their questions for when they get home and ask their husband?

 

[bilby]

Franklin is a major dick. At least the old man made his major gaffe on one of Nixon's secret tapes. The sister, whatever her name is, how does she get past the NT's injunction that women must never instruct men, and in fact, are to shut their pie holes in church and save their questions for when they get home and ask their husband?

That's easy; she can just follow the Fundamentalist Prime Directive, which reads "The rules apply to YOU, not to ME".

 

[Potoooooooo]

I know his daddy once said in explaining why sports were good for little boys
Athletes never do drugs

 

[Underseer]

This is a nice demonstration of what's wrong with getting morality from authority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma

Does the authority command it because it is good, or is it good because the authority commanded it? Theists claim this is a false dilemma, but every attempt they make at offering a third option results in the same dilemma getting shifted to a slightly different topic. The bottom line is, you can't say something is good unless you develop a definition of good that is independent of the authority, but once you do that, your definition is the source of your morality, not the authority. As much as theists might prefer otherwise, there is simply no substitute for sitting down and thinking things through.

Despite the Euthyphro dilemma, theists believe not only that authority is a valid source of morality, but that authority is the only possible source of morality. It is therefore inevitable that the same bad logic they use to derive morality from an imaginary authority would be used to make excuses for the moral commands of an Earthly authority.

The whole point of theism is not morality, but to encourage followers to submit to authority no matter how arbitrary said authority is.