Easter is the day for Christians to fully appreciate the time our Lord Jesus spent with us and the miracle of him rising after the most painful persecution imaginable. The story of his life and teachings offers all the foundation any person, indeed any society could require to create conditions ideal for the harmony and cooperation that make the constructive pursuit of happiness possible.
Tragically, this Easter also presents the necessity to righteously condemn how far astray the rank and file of American Evangelicalism has wondered from the What Would Jesus Do (WWJD) model, despite fully co-opting his name for an agenda he was crucified opposing. What these millions of misguided souls demand in the name of Jesus bares no resemblance to the tenets our Savior roamed this Earth preaching we must adopt.
In fact, one is hard pressed to find much in the New Testament today’s theocrats actually favor. Instead, everything they base their moral superiority on originates in the cruelest and most unhinged bowels of the Old Testament, a volume of stories that feature men in whales and floods that consume the world, except for one well-constructed ark.
At every turn the crowd who now boast ownership of the high ground obedience to the Bible bestows ignore the second volume’s near constant entreaties to advocate for those without and offer mercy to the prodigals. What they steer toward and demand others yield to, are the cruelest and least tolerant proclamations of the narrative imparted before Christ was born.
Psalm 35:10
My whole being will exclaim, “Who is like you, Lord?
You rescue the poor from those too strong for them,
the poor and needy from those who rob them.”
Such guidance from the New Testament evaporates in the wind with this bloc. They much prefer Old Testament screeds such as:
“…anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him. Whether an alien or native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death. “`If anyone takes the life of a human being, he must be put to death.”
Leviticus 24
So does the President their unquestioning support, along with the craven and cowardly servility of the political party their mentality consumed, has plagued us with.
I suppose it would be unfair to simply aver evangelicals are gratuitous with regard to the wanton cruelty this regime is fixated on inflicting. However, at the least they view abiding it as the preferred option of a binary choice. Disappearing people to El Salvador vs. open borders that invites in rapists and murderers. Devastating vital safety nets for the poorest and most disabled Americans in favor of tax gifts to billionaires that blow up our deficit vs. countenancing fraud and welfare Queen scams, not to mention freebies to “illegals” that solid god-fearing citizens foot the bill for. Tolerating diversity vs. woke privilege for trans freaks who beat up on our girls in sports and ogle at our children in bathrooms. It’s not WWJD; it’s WSJD (What Should Jesus Do.)
To millions who now ail us, Trump is biblically provided as both the means to win the crusade for protection of the unborn, the earlier in the procreation process the better, as well as God’s wrath against sodomite leftist obsessions like the LGBT agenda and the false history secular liberals want to constantly indoctrinate Christian children with. Bring the Bible (read Old Testament) back into schools!
Late last October during an event billed as The National Faith Summit, Jack Graham, a Plano, Texas mega church pastor, joined a bunch of other mega church pastors as they all laid hands on their Orange Deliverer. “Jesus,” Graham extolled, “we thank you that you have raised up a man, Donald J. Trump, to be a warrior for the word of God and the wisdom that comes from God.”
Once disgraced televangelist Paula White-Cain, now the head of the Trump White House’s “Faith Office,” who a 2006 Senate Report found had lavished her husband, herself and family members with over $2 million of parishioner donations, thanked Jesus for protecting Trump and “keeping your hand of blessing on him.” The huddle then dispersed and all closed out things by shuffling to The Village People’s YMCA… that well known musical embodiment of crossover piety.
Today their “warrior” posted his Easter message for the nation who elected him POTUS. It’s worth transcribing in full:
“Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten! Sleepy Joe Biden purposefully allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Borders Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He was, by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing — But to him, and to the person that ran and manipulated the Auto Pen (perhaps our REAL President!), and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter!!!”
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Luke 23:34
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