This Easter season is made like Jesus and entered into some “good troubles”
“Pray as if everything depended on God,” Saint Augustine wrote. “Work as if everything depends on you.”
Easter is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus, and a call to work. Let me say this in the language of social media today Clickbait: Christians in America must “exercise what we preach.”
This is a fearful time for our nation. Last week, Thomas Friedman, the New York Times, wrote that he was never afraid of his nation as he feared today.
At the time of fear, faith requires more than prayers. It requires work and strength. The people of faith are called to do what the late MP John Lewis (D-GA), the civil rights icon that has been urged on his Christian beliefs: We need to enter into a “good problem.”
“In my estimation, the civil rights movement was a religious phenomenon. When we go to sit or go out to the march, I felt – and I really believed – there was strength – there was all – there was strength – there was everything – it was the case – it was so.”
As the episcopate that the Church is attending regularly, I learned from the Old and New Testament that Jesus was an order of love and care for the poor, patients, refugees, and refugees. How can any Christian, especially evangelists, a major base for Trump, to defend this president?
The old phrase “wwjd” – what will Jesus do? – It applies.
Will Jesus kidnap people from the street and throw them in distant prisons? Will Jesus separate families without legal procedures, without any evidence?
Will Jesus smile in his capacity as Minister of Internal Security Christie Naim, who is flashing an expensive Rolex watch, to be brought up in front of cages jammed with desperate prisoners? Did Jesus clap as they boast of her inhuman circumstances? How is this slim act acceptable for those who worship Jesus?
I learned that Jesus will protest the Trump proposals that take a heavy hammer to the financial artery of the elderly, widows, disabled and poor, including social security, medical care, and medicaid, with promising tax cuts of American companies and wealthy people.
In the 1970s and eighties of the last century, the late TV food Jerry Vallail and Robertson be present the political ascension of the “moral majority”, as a dominant power in Republican politics. They turned abortion into a wedge issue, which led to the excitement of the church owners to vote in favor of the Republican Party as a faith in Jesus to defend human life.
To this day, Christian conservatives continue to summon the Bible to defend life that has not yet been born and opposes ideal marriage. But they somehow ignore the calls of the Bible itself to heal the patients, feed the hungry, and raise the mixture. Call me amazed by this hypocrisy.
Let’s not forget: Jesus brought a whip to the temple to expel the money of the money. The Bible strongly warns of the wealthy who exploit the poor. However, Trump accepts great contributions to the campaign from the richest wealthy and allows these non -elected few policies to benefit the wealthy and harm the poor.
There is a link between this hypocrisy and the scene of the priest Paula White Kane, the consultant of the White House’s high house in Trump and a government employee, who ask Christians to send $ 1,000 because the “Ministry of money costs”. On the other hand, it looks like a Graves in the temple, which is “seven supernatural blessings”: angelic protection, prosperity, healing, long life – as well as a free crystal cross, if you are behaving now.
This undesirable behavior is a simple news component, as it overwhelmed the Trump administration lawyers to explain the judges to challenge the courts’ orders and indifference to America’s promise to justice to everyone.
Likewise, Trump failed to find an answer when the bishop Marianne Bod, speaking to the opening prayer, asked him to “leave”, to “fearful now” people – and specifically people of immigrants and transgender people.
His only response was to attack the bishop as a “left-wing extremist line Trump-Catter”, called “bad”.
Now, at this time of fear, it is up to the real Christians to act. Former Congress member Lewis was inspired by a leader moved by faith: Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Junior.
Lewis said in the 1987 documentary “Eyes on the Award” (which I wrote the book of the accompanying): “King was not concerned about the streets of the sky, the pearls, and the streets paved with milk and honey.” “It was more anxious about the streets of Montgomery and the way black and the poor are treated in Montgomery.”
On this Passover on Monday, the question is how will Trump supporters answer Christian when they face Jesus’ concern to others to the point of giving his life to save sinners? How will they answer these procedures when one day is called to an account? Something tells me that God will not like the allegations that the hatred of Democrats or liberals was greater than anxiety about Trump’s violations.
Christianity and most other religions learn that there will be an account of the political harm that takes place in Washington today. So I pray to God to change, but also for real Christians to act urgently and get a “good problem”.
Juan Williams is a major political analyst for the Fox News channel and award -winning civil rights historian. He is the author of the new book, “A New Award for this Eyes: the rise of the second civil rights movement in America.”
