It shouldn’t be all that surprising that on the eve of the 72nd anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, we see these words stated about President Trump,
“God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un.”
What should be appalling is that they came from what is referred to as “a Pastor”. Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas and part of Trump’s Ministry of Faith Evangelical Advisers, referenced Romans 13 while explaining the presidents God given authority after Trump made threats that North Korea would be, “met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
He also set out to draw a distinction between The Christian and The State, by referencing Romans 12, which would be fine, except that Jeffress, and others from Trump’s Evangelical advisers spent alot of airtime and print to convince American voters that Trump was a Christian: Rallying at Liberty University, issuing out statements of his conversion, and photo-ops, to name a few. The statement also begs the question, “Isn’t this a Christian nation?” The “religious right” has spent decades getting that phrase woven into the psyche of every red-blooded American.
At this time, I want to suspend the conversation questioning if North Korea can be taken as a serious and imminent threat, because after the bluster, everyone knows, even with nuclear warheads, they are not. KJU has shown to be full of tough talk for one thing – keeping his throne.
What I would like to focus on, are statements like Jeffress’ and the rest of his fellow evangelical advisers, in the White House or pounding the war drums pulpit every Sunday.
What makes North Korea Evil? The threat of dropping a Nuclear Bomb on civilians? If that’s so, isn’t it interesting that I can only think of one country that has done that?
If we have a Christian nation, and a Christian leader, what is it about the turn of the page from Romans 12 to 13 that suspends the Christian’s responsibility once they are in government? Oh, and doesn’t Romans 13 show a government used as a tool of God, but set in opposition to the Christian?
And, why is it that when a registered Republican is in office, everything is sanctioned by God but when the same actions are made by a registered Democrat they are “paving the way for the Antichrist?”
Obviously, these questions posed in this way are unanswerable, but these are the double minded inferences Christians draw on a daily bases.
Lastly, Jeffress also commits an atrocious misnomer when asked if he wants a leader that embodies the sermon on the mount. “Absolutely not,” he says. This is the heart of it. Our country’s Christian “leaders” think the Christ on the sermon on the mount is weak. As they desire a Messiah that will conquer victoriously over his foes, they reject the Messiah that came to serve and save the lost– but we’ve seen this before with another nation of people, haven’t we? The American Jesus is the contradiction, and he looks more like Uncle Sam than the Prince of Peace.
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