Pastor Mike McBride of The Way church on University Avenue also doubts Graham will attract thousands of followers to his Berkeley rally. “I think he is obviously trolling us,” McBride said. “In the imagination of the alt-right and the extremist political community, Berkeley has become some culture war Ground Zero of sorts,” he said. “For all of us who are Christ-followers, it’s an affront, a deep offense, to suggest we need these kinds of people coming in to bring any kind of Jesus or salvation to us. It mirrors back to the days of colonization.”
“For all of us who are Christ-followers, it’s an affront, a deep offense, to suggest we need these kinds of people coming in to bring any kind of Jesus or salvation to us. It mirrors back to the days of colonization.”
— Pastor Mike McBride
McBride said that Graham is “peddling Christofascism,” a term that he said was coined in 1970 “to describe a false kind of Christian faith wedded to political extremism.” He added that he knows of no black churches that would describe themselves as evangelical, and described himself as Pentecostal. McBride said that a group of local pastors has been discussing a possible protest of the Graham rally, but he is not sure whether that will actually happen as he is the main organizer and he has been ill.
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