Not All Christians Suck
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OK, many do. Maybe most! But not all and that’s very important. A lot of people actually do live their Christian values and while Trump doesn’t give a shit about Christians appealing to him to be a decent human being, which he is as incapable of as reading a book, it still matters for good Christians to push back on corrupted Christianity.
Prominent Christian leaders, denominations and organizations are beginning the religious season of Lent by condemning actions taken by President Donald Trump, urging fellow faithful to advocate for immigrants and the poor while highlighting concerns that Congress may cut social safety net programs in a forthcoming federal budget package.
The criticism came by way of a pair of public letters, one of which, titled “Returning to Jesus: Practicing Lent in Our Time” and signed by more than 100 denominational leaders and luminaries such as Diana Butler Bass, the Rev. Otis Moss III and the Rev. Jim Wallis, chided the Trump administration for a growing list of executive orders and other decisions that the religious leaders say will harm poor and otherwise disadvantaged people.
“This year we celebrate Lent amidst a growing crisis in America, driven by the political accumulation of wealth, power, and control,” the leaders’ letter read. “This crisis already threatens the rule of law and the checks and balances of our constitutional democracy. In the deluge and whirlwind of this administration’s initial actions we see the brutal abandonment and targeting of the people Jesus commands his followers to serve and protect.”
Dramatic cuts by billionaire Elon Musk and the Trump White House’s Department of Government Efficiency to the U.S. Agency for International Development have led to the winnowing or shuttering of hospitals and clinics for HIV-positive children in Africa and halted efforts to aid persecuted Christians in Sri Lanka and elsewhere.
“The massive cutting of foreign aid to those most in need, and from many faith-based organizations supplying it is a gospel issue for us that we must speak to, despite dishonest, personal, and unprecedented government attacks now coming against faith-based service providers,” the leaders’ letter read. “We must defend lifesaving international aid and humanitarian assistance that prevents hungry people from starving, keeps those in ill health from dying, and defends children and families lives from being destroyed.”
In a statement, Wallis, faculty director at Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice, said the letter resonated with the themes of Lent.
“Lent is a time of repentance, reflection, and renewal,” Wallis said. “As Christians, we must resist the temptations of power and greed that seek to divide us and instead return to the radical gospel of love and justice that Jesus calls us to embody. Our faith must be active in defending the most vulnerable among us.”
Obviously, JD Vance, Clarence Thomas, and the rest of the converts to power-hungry Torquemada Catholicism thinks these are cuck Christians. But whatever, they can burn in Hell, which I hope exists so they can burn in it. I address some of these issues in Organizing America, with a chapter on Daniel Berrigan and how we have lost so much organizing capacity by turning our back on churches and religious leaders with inspiring politics, even if I am very much one of those people who are part of that problem.