When I post things that the President and his administration does that I believe are wholly antithetical to the Gospel, the teachings of Jesus, and the values of the kingdom of God - I am hit with subtle rhetoric to obey our authorities.

To believe that even though Trump is “uncoventional,” God is using him; that Romans 13 says that we should submit to our authorities and obey them. That we should love our enemies. That we should pray for our leaders.

But when the Governor of CA strongly suggests that ALL places of worship (not just Christians churches) stop singing in order to prevent the spread of this virus (temporarily), there are suddenly petitions to overthrow the governor of CA and stop him because “HE’S GONE TOO FAR.”

Where is your love of law and order now Christians? Huh? Where is the love of prayer for your leaders?

Where is the outrage for the injustice the Asian-Americans are facing because they have been targeted by people here just because of their race? Where if your outrage, then, for how ICE treats undocumented immigrants and families are continually being separated?

Where is your outrage that this administration is forcing international students who come here LAWFULLY to switch to in-person classes at the risk of their health or be deported from the place where they may have leases and other obligations at such short notice?

Where is your outrage at the things Trump has done that are vile and reckless if you are so concerned with leaders “taking it too far?”

I don’t understand what you are trying to show the world - that you love having someone that agrees with you in power? That you love your personal freedoms more than you love other people?

Where is your mercy? Where is your compassion? Where is the grace that you love to talk about so much concerning President Trump? Where is your “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” rhetoric now?

Where is your insistence to humbly pray for our leaders and go the extra mile to serve them as you would others? Or does it just not serve you now because it means you have to sacrifice some things you are so used to in order to care for others while we wait?

I don’t understand how this reflects Jesus at all. How does this show people that you wish to lead them to a Lord and Savior who not only deeply cares about their soul but also about their present physical circumstances?

Who is Jesus, actually, to you? Because right now it just looks like a majority of Christians here like to use Jesus for political gain.
I’m so grieved and confused and angry.
Can anyone explain this to me?

An apocalypse as described in the Bible means an “uncovering,” and I’m afraid you all are truly seeing the apocalypse you have been waiting for. And it’s not bloody or gory or filled with war like you’ve heard preached.

Instead it is God exposing American Christianity to its deeply rooted sin and issues. It is peeling back the band-aid on a festering and infected found that has poisoned everything.

We are seeing the product of loving money and power and political expediency over love and mercy and justice. We are seeing the product of choosing to have power instead of aligning ourselves with the marginalized and oppressed as Jesus did and does and will.