GOP attacks bishop for telling Trump to 'have mercy.' Don't tell them about Jesus. | Opinion
As a conservative, I have long believed the No. 1 job of an American president is to attack faith leaders who don't fully agree with him, so it was good to see Trump rise to the occasion.
Like many supporters of God-President Donald Trump, I am outraged – sickened, actually – that a so-called bishop would stand up in a so-called church and ask the new president to engage in some weird liberal behavior called “mercy.”
In case you missed it, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde presided over the inaugural prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral on Tuesday and directly addressed the president, saying: “Millions have put their trust in you. And as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.”
Can you believe a person of the cloth would say something so vicious and extreme? No wonder Trump ran to social media to call Budde "nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart" and write: “The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater.”
As a conservative, I have long believed the No. 1 job of an American president is to attack faith leaders who don't fully agree with him, so it was good to see Trump rise to the occasion and go alpha-dog on an actual bishop.
How dare that so-called bishop ask Trump to care about other people
That radical-leftist requester of mercy crossed a serious line when she suggested the person who runs the country should look out for vulnerable Americans and strive for unity and understanding.
Budde said at the service that "there are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives.” And she said “the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.”
How dare she stoop to using facts as a means of encouraging compassion. This is America, gosh darn it!
Fox News was quick to label the Episcopalian bishop 'Satan'
Outrage over a religious figure promoting the kind of thing religions promote spread like wildfire Wednesday, with the saintly journalists at Fox News spreading the good word that the bishop is actually “Satan.”
Sean Hannity also called her a “so-called bishop” and said: “She made the service about her very own deranged political beliefs with a disgraceful prayer full of fearmongering and division.”
Yes, if there’s one thing I learned in my Christian upbringing, it’s that mercy is deranged and we should absolutely dehumanize people who are in any way different from us.
A bishop's plea for mercy is both 'disturbing' and 'evil'
Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to Budde’s comments by telling Fox News: “Everybody there was shocked and mortified by the disturbing comments from this bishop who chose to weaponize the pulpit. … She spewed lies. She said that President Trump has called immigrants criminals. He calls illegal immigrants criminals because, in fact, they are criminals by definition. If you break our nation’s laws, you are a criminal.”
Nobody should know that breaking laws makes you a criminal better than President Trump.
Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire called Budde a “fake bishop” and, in good Christian form, said of her: “It is a truth long-established that a liberal woman over 50 with a lesbian haircut is sure to support the most evil ideas and policies that mankind has ever conceived.”
If you think the bishop was bad, wait until you hear the stuff Jesus said
Clearly any moral person would agree Bishop (so-called) Budde is a suspicious character promoting sinister solicitude. So I decided to look a bit more into one of her closer associates, a person identified as “Jesus Christ.” What I found was shocking.
You wouldn’t believe the radical left-wing things Budde’s pal Jesus said and stood for.
It’s all kooky liberal nonsense like this: “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”
I guess He thought it was just peachy to run around feeding the poor and welcoming immigrants and whatnot. I can only imagine what Fox News would say about Him!
Jesus talks and talks about liberal nonsense like mercy and love
Jesus also said: “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”
That must be where the bishop got her zany thoughts about mercy. Jesus should sue her for plagiarism.
Here’s another latte-liberal line of His: “A new command I give you. Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
Love? Nice try, Lib. I’m not loving someone unless they’re exactly like me.
Good thing it wasn't Jesus talking to Trump
Imagine if this Jesus person had addressed President Trump and said some of these horrendous things. Trump, his spokespeople, Fox News and other God-fearing patriots in conservative media would have had to absolutely slam the person I assume they would call “the so-called son of God.”
You have to be careful whom you associate with in this world, folks. You don’t want to get mixed up with people like Budde.
A simple tool for the pious MAGA faithful out there is this: If someone starts preaching to you about mercy or kindness, run for the hills. It’s probably Satan.
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