{"id":14952,"date":"2021-05-07T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=14952"},"modified":"2021-05-07T13:50:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:50:43","slug":"why-did-biden-not-mention-god-during-prayer-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2021\/05\/why-did-biden-not-mention-god-during-prayer-address","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Biden Not Mention God During Prayer Address?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14296\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2020\/09\/JoeBidenImage-e1599842878435.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14296\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2020\/09\/JoeBidenImage-e1599842878435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gage Skidmore\/WikiCommons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Franklin Graham reacts to Biden leaving God out of National Day of Prayer address. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biden is the first president to omit \u201cGod\u201d from his address on the National Day of Prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Many Christians are wondering why the devout Roman Catholic didn\u2019t mention God during the prayer proclamation. No president has left God out of the address since it was created in 1952 by a joint resolution of Congress and signed into law by President Harry Truman, the Catholic League reports.<\/p>\n<p>Graham, who now runs the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association that his father founded, told Fox News he couldn\u2019t figure out why Biden left God\u2019s name out of his proclamation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure that [Biden] even knows. It was probably a staff person that wrote it and maybe not even ran it by him \u2013 because I don\u2019t think Joe Biden would have approved that one,\u201d Graham said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a National Day of Prayer. Of course, we need to call on God \u2013 and not just some generic \u2018gods\u2019 or some \u2018power\u2019 in the air \u2013 but on God Himself, the Creator who made and created the Earth and who sent His Son, Jesus Christ, from Heaven to this Earth to save mankind from sin by dying on a cross.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no one else to pray to except to God,\u201d the evangelist added.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News host Pete Hegseth mentioned Graham separately made remarks on Facebook about the president and the prayer address just before his interview with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would President Biden omit God?&#8230; I was deeply saddened to read that President Biden is the first president to omit the word \u201cGod\u201d in his proclamation. That speaks volumes, doesn\u2019t it? It is hard to believe we have come this far,\u201d Graham wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is the second Catholic president in U.S. history and was expected to have his faith on full display, but these actions are raising some eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you think Biden omitted the word \u201cGod\u201d in the prayer proclamation? How worrisome is this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franklin Graham reacts to Biden leaving God out of National Day of Prayer address. Biden is the first president to omit \u201cGod\u201d from his address on the National Day of Prayer. Many Christians are wondering why the devout Roman Catholic didn\u2019t mention God during the prayer proclamation. 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