Todd Starnes has written about some of Franklin Graham’s most recent ramblings. Did you know that Christians have it terribly in this country?

“I believe we are perilously close to the moral tipping point for the survival of the United States of America,” Graham wrote in Decision magazine. “I refuse to be silent and watch the future of our children and grandchildren be offered up on pagan altars of personal pleasure and immorality.”

Yes, it’s the goal of any decent parent to keep their kid from personal pleasure. You’ve not succeeded as a father unless your children are miserable for Jesus.

The Supreme Court has already redefined marriage. The nation has become a killing field for Islamic radicals. And Christians have become targets for practicing their First Amendment rights.

They have? Can you name a single Christian who’s in jail for saying same-sex marriage is bad? I mean, there’s plenty of people who think people who oppose equality for gay people are dicks — lots of them are Christians. It’s not a Christian thing, it’s a being a dick thing. It’s just the primary force telling people to be dicks to gay people is, well, Christianity.

“There now exists deep-seated antagonism and hostility toward Christianity in every seat of power in this nation – government, media, courts and education,” Graham wrote. It has become open season on Christians.”

Deep-seated antagonism in every seat of power? The President is a Christian. You have six of the nine Supreme Court Justices (the other three are Jewish), which is the lowest percentage of Christians in the SCOTUS’s entire history! Christians make up almost 92% of Congress!

From whence is this antagonism toward Christianity coming from? Christians?

Jesus Christ, how can persecution possibly look like being in charge to you lot? There’s literally no group in America persecuted less than Christians, and yet it’s not good enough for Franklin Graham. I keep hearing Christianity makes people joyous, yet so many have become incapable of seeing how good they have it. They’re not happy, they’re pissed off nobody’s let them appoint themselves kings and queens of everybody else’s sex lives.

Instead of ignoring the rotting of America’s culture, the president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has decided to do something about it.

Please let his solution be finding some way, any way to acquire some god damn perspective.

Earlier this month, Graham launched the “Decision America Tour,” a series of prayer rallies at the capitol buildings of all 50 states.

He’s going to loiter. Boy, ain’t Graham a man of action.

“The only hope for America is not the Democratic Party and it’s not the Republican Party,” Graham told me. “The only hope for America is God.”

Ok, fine, but until he shows up can we try the whole human ideas and human actions approach?

I caught up with Graham just after his inaugural prayer gathering in Des Moines. More than 2,000 people turned out in frigid weather – to petition the Almighty. It was one of the rare moments in Iowa where politicians were not recognized nor were they allowed to speak. “If a candidate showed up – we’re not going to recognize them,” Graham said. “We’re not going to give them a microphone.” That’s because “Decision America Tour” is not about politics.

Yes, holding them at political buildings is just coincidental.

And that’s when he dropped this evangelical bombshell.

“To be honest with you, the problems we have in America today are the failure of the church,” he said.

That’s a bombshell? He might as well have said “The problem is Christians who think Jesus wants something different from what I think Jesus wants.” It’s a weak put down, not a bombshell.

I reckon that comment just made a lot of folks start wiggling in the pews.

Not really. The people in Graham’s pews already think they’re super special with the Lord and all the other Christians probably don’t give the first shit what Graham thinks.

But Graham has a valid point. The government has taken on many responsibilities that were once in the hands of the local church.

“The churches have allowed the government to take away their responsibility and so the government is feeding people, the government is clothing people, the government is now in charge of health care,” he said.

Yeah, and our government largely does them without wasting resources trying to convert people that could be spent feeding them.

What’s more, this was always the government’s job. The government is tasked with looking out for the welfare of its citizens and is accountable to the degree it succeeds. If the government fails there’s no shrugging its shoulders and saying, “Ah well, Jesus forgives me. At least we convinced x number of people that a guy rose from the dead 2,000 years ago so I call it a win.”

Graham is a self-entitled boy disappointed with the natural outcome of democracy — namely that he doesn’t get to issue edicts to the entire population in god’s name. He’s about as loony as any man with a microphone has ever been, so you know how Todd Starnes describes him:

Franklin Graham is a voice crying in the wilderness.

Crying to the wilderness from the comfort of a private jet. In fact, there’s no wilderness, just lots of crying.