Trump and a Bible in his hand in front of a left-wing Protestant church rejecting him
By Julio Severo
In midst of violent left-wing protests and
riots in Washington DC, St. John Episcopal Church suffered a fire in May 31,
2020 and next day President Donald Trump, with a Bible in his hand, took a
picture in its front, in an act of solidarity.
Its nickname is “The Church of the
Presidents,” because since James Madison in 1816 all U.S. presidents, except
for Richard Nixon, attended services at St. John’s at least once. Trump’s Inauguration
Day prayer service was held at St. John Episcopal Church in 2017, and Trump and
members of his family have attended this church a number of times.
The congregation is a part of the
Episcopal Diocese of Washington, a liberal mainline denomination that embraces
LGBTQ agenda, solemnizes same-sex “marriages,” advocates socialism without
apology and promotes environmentalist ideas. In other words, it’s the kind of left-wing
church conservative Christians would advise anyone to leave and never go to.
It is strange that Trump chose to have his
inauguration prayer at this left-wing church.
It is strange that he chose to raise a
Bible in front of this church.
Yet, it is not strange the reaction of the
pastor of this church. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde said,
“The President just used a Bible and one
of the churches of my diocese as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the
teachings of Jesus and everything that our church stands for… I am outraged. The
President did not pray when he came to St. John’s.”
That is, the bishop of St. John Episcopal
Church chose to side with left-wing protesters.
Yet, she is right about prayer. With a
Bible in his hand, Trump did not mention any Bible verse and he made no prayer.
In fact, if Trump were a praying Christian, he would never attend a left-wing
church. If he were a praying Christian, he would never allow his inauguration
prayer to happen at a left-wing church.
Yet, what about Budde? Is she a praying
woman? If she were a praying woman, she would pray for Trump, who even though having
been born in the Presbyterian Church, does not know the difference between a
conservative church and a left-wing church.
If Budde were a praying woman, she would
never get involved in political activism supporting gay causes and left-wing
protestors.
If she were a praying Christian, she would
minister to homosexuals and left-wing terrorists the way Jesus did: by healing diseases
(including ideological diseases) and expelling demons (including demonic
ideologies). Above all, she would preach to them the Gospel of the Kingdom of
God.
If she were a praying Christian, she would
see as an honor to have President Trump in front of her church, notwithstanding
his attempt to use his presence there for political advantage. But what
president has ever done anything in churches without political advantage? She
should just pray for him.
St. John Episcopal Church was not born
left-wing over 200 years ago. It was hijacked by left-wing activists disguised
as Christians. St. John Episcopal Church was born honoring the Bible and now it
is rejecting the Bible.
Some could argue that if mainline Protestant
churches are rejecting Trump, he should attend the Catholic Church. For June 2,
2020 Trump scheduled a visit to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in
Washington. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, the first African American archbishop
of the Archdiocese of Washington, condemned the visit, saying it “violates our
religious principles.”
The Rev. James Martin, a prominent Jesuit
priest and author, said in a statement:
“Using the Bible as a prop while talking
about sending in the military, bragging about how your country is the greatest
in the world, and publicly mocking people on a daily basis, is pretty much the
opposite of all Jesus stood for.”
He added:
“Let me be clear. This is revolting. The
Bible is not a prop. A church is not a photo op. Religion is not a political
tool. And God is not a plaything.”
The archbishop and the Jesuit are just a
small sample of the massive socialist plague among Catholics. Pope Francis, the
supreme head of the Catholic Church, is a Liberation Theology advocate.
While liberal Protestants and Catholics
complain about Trump mixing Bible and government, they have not complained
about the Vatican, which is the headquarters of the Catholic Church and at the
same time a nation.
If Trump did not pray and mention the
Bible when he was in front of St. John Episcopal Church, what did he do? He
just said,
“We have a great country. That’s my
thoughts. Best country in the world. Great and we’ll make it even greater and
it won’t take long. It’s not gonna take long. See what’s going on. It’s coming
back. It’s coming back strong. It’ll be greater than ever before.”
The old America, founded by George
Washington and other Americans, was a nation that made the Bible great. Old
presidents read the Bible, including in its original Hebrew and Greek
languages. These old Bible-reading presidents, in their Bible-reading society —
which was 98 percent Protestant —, made America great.
Protestant churches in old America were
conservative.
Yet, how does Trump expect America to be
bigger when Protestant churches in America are leaving conservatism and the
Bible to embrace the strange gospel of socialism?
How does Trump expect America to be bigger
when he does not know the Bible even in English, not to mention in Hebrew and
Greek?
How does Trump expect America to be bigger
when he
has inaugurated a multifaith National Day of Prayer with non-Christian and
anti-Christian religions?
How does Trump expect America to be bigger
when he
has equated Christian churches with Muslim mosques?
How does Trump expect America to be bigger
when his
administration has launched an effort to make sodomy great around the world?
How does Trump expect America to be bigger
when his
administration does not want to hear any message from the Bible condemning
homosexuality?
Today, even the church
that George Washington founded in the late 1700s has embraced Liberation
Theology, feminism and homosexuality. They left the Bible and conservatism.
With churches in America in a state of
apostasy, it is no wonder that pastors and bishops do not read and follow the
Bible. So it is equally no surprise that the president himself does not read
the Bible.
If I were Trump, I would never attend St.
John Episcopal Church. I would never allow my inauguration prayer to happen
there, because I am a conservative evangelical who read the whole Bible at
least twice a year.
If I were the bishop of St. John Episcopal
Church, I would never support homosexual activists and left-wing terrorists
disguised as “protestors.” But I would fully love them to preach the Gospel to
them, to heal them and expel their demons, in the name of Jesus.
And if Trump attended my church, I would
honor his visits and work to make him a disciple of Jesus Christ, teaching him to
obey everything Jesus commanded (see Matthew 28:19-20).
And even if I were just an adviser to him,
I would help him achieve this spiritual goal.
So he would very prepared to keep the
Bible in his hand and point what the Bible says to current America, left-wing
terrorists and apostate churches.
Since St. John Episcopal Church has
renounced its biblical authority to expel demons from left-wing terrorists, a
real Christian could expel the left-wing demons of the leaders of that church.
With information from Rob Schenck’s
Facebook, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's Facebook, NBCNews and CBSNews.
Portuguese version of this article: Trump
e uma Bíblia na mão em frente de uma igreja protestante esquerdista que o
rejeita
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