Graham: America may need ‘economic collapse’ to return to God

Conservative Christian minister Franklin Graham has recently taken to multiple talk shows to speak on the re-election of President Barack Obama, saying that more Christians should have turned out to vote, and suggesting that America may need a “complete economic collapse” before turning to God.

Evangelist Franklin Graham with his father, Billy Graham, at the elder Graham's final crusade in New York in 2005. / RNS

“God is in control, and if Christians are upset, they need to be upset at themselves. We need to do a better job of getting our people – the Church – to vote,” Graham said in a recent interview on The Brody File, featured on the Christian Broadcasting Network’s website.

“Now, I’m not trying to tell you how to vote, you can vote, but vote, my goodness, and vote for candidates that stand for Biblical values,” added Graham, who is the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA).

Graham went on to tell host David Brody that he believes Obama’s policies, which include the Health Care Mandate, will “usher in the largest changes in our society since the Civil War,” which, in his opinion, include a massive increase in taxes.

In a recent, separate interview with Newsmax TV, Graham said that he believes America has turned its back on God, and “the more we turn our backs on God, the bigger our problem becomes.”

“What has happened is we have allowed ourselves to take God out everything that we do – and I believe that God will judge our nation one day,” Graham continued.

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