Graham outlines tsunami aid effort

Christian evangelicals have been given an open door to profess their faith in the aftermath of the devastating tsunami of December and will do so with aid to children, Franklin Graham told a Jacksonville audience Sunday at First Baptist Church’s 19th annual Pastors’ Conference. [...]

He said the most devastated areas were centers of Muslim and Buddhist faith that have been closed to evangelicals.

Graham said criticism might follow the effort but would be unjustified.

“We’re not taking advantage of a child,” he said. “We’re giving a gift.”

Proselytizing by evangelical groups in the aftermath of the disaster has been considered an affront or worse by some. Muslim militants have made menacing threats if Christian groups do more than simply provide aid.

Graham said Christians have been closed out of some of the worst-hit areas in the past.

“Because of the tsunami, we are able to go,” he said.

The fact that evangelical idiots can’t see this as simply taking advantage of someone in a time of crisis astounds me. Ummm, excuse me, xian wackos — but the reason why evangelicals were originally excluded from these places was probably due to the fact that they didn’t want you there. Get over yourselves, assholes.