This week, Donald Trump became the first sitting president to ever speak to the Values Voters Summit, a group which has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
On Saturday, Bishop Dr. William Barber II was a guest on AM Joy, and he said the so-called “Christian right,” needs to be renamed:
“I just can’t call it Christian right, it’s so wrong, it’s not Christian. Gun-waving politicians that support segregation is not Christian, it’s crazy.
“It’s time really for there to be a major challenge to this kind of public heresy that we see going on that is so counter the real values of Christianity.”
The “gun-waving” reference is to Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, who often waves around a gun as he pretends to be proclaiming the word of God to his supporters. Host Joy Reid commented to Rev. Barber:
“We’re looking at pictures of him waving his tiny pistol around at this Values Voters Summit. The stuff they’re distributing there, it feels so counter to the core message of Christian love in the Bible. It’s hard for me to believe they read that Bible and get that out of it.”
And that’s when Barber used the Bible to prove the rank hypocrisy of the fake Christians on the far right:
“Actually, from Jeremiah 22 to Jesus and Matthew 25, Christian values for nations and political leaders has to do with love and justice, equality, stopping exploitation of the vulnerable, caring for the poor, caring for children, welcoming immigrants, helping the sick and loving all. And by these standards, the so-called Values Summit is not about Judeo-Christian values, it’s not about Christianity, but the values of a heretical rhetorical extremism funded by a whole lot of money, perpetrating a fraud on the American people.”
People who claim to be religious and yet practice the opposite, Barber added, are clearly only interested in one thing: Money:
“Their values are cash and not Christ, greed and not grace. What the president did was irreligious, it is an anathema to Christian values. He boasted about taking health care, that’s not Christian.
“He promoted arrogance, he promoted warmongering — these are not Christian values — and it’s high time that we call it out. These are not Christian values but the values of an extreme corporate oligarchy trying to use the values and claim the faith as a way to gain power.”
Donald Trump’s god is the almighty dollar. And something Jesus said should tell you where the illegitimate president is headed when his time is up in this world:
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” (Mark 10:25)
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