Rev. Dr. William Barber has an excellent article in Think criticizing the so-called Christians supporting Trump, a man whose entire life is the antithesis of Christ. Here is a key snippet:
On Friday, President Donald Trump went before the annual Values Voter Summit and declared America "a country that never forgets that we are all, everyone one of us, by the very same God in heaven." In the name of Jesus, Trump vowed to "stop cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values." But the Values Voter Summit, hosted by the anti-abortion, anti-gay Family Research Council, no more represents Jesus than did the church authorities who backed slavery.
Trump invoked the name of Jesus just a day after he announced his executive order to stop the federal government's Cost Sharing Reduction payments, which subsidize health care for lower-income families under the Affordable Care Act. Throughout the Scriptures, virtually every story told by Jesus admonishes us to see to the needs of the poor and vulnerable among us. Instead, Trump told the crowd of cheering evangelicals that he would always defend those who use religion to discriminate.
The Christian nationalists Trump has emboldened do not follow the Jesus I know and preach. Their values stem not from Christ, but from cash; theirs is the gospel of greed, not grace. As the Princeton historian Kevin M. Kruse chronicled in his book "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America," these preachers are the heirs of the corrupt religious leaders who spoke against Rabbi Abraham Heschel and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement.
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Last week, the men and women who crowded into that D.C. ballroom claimed to be attending a values conference. But instead, they proved yet again how morally bankrupt a vocal segment of Christianity has become.
And so today, we invite the millions of people who truly believe in the teachings of Jesus to stand up and speak out for a true #ValuesRevolution. Let's show America what a true moral majority looks like.
Rev. Dr. William Barber Trump's Evangelical Fans Preach the Gospel of Greed, Not Grace
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Rev. Barber is leading a Values Revolution:
The Forward Together Moral Movement in North Carolina, and especially the Moral Mondays protests, is an example of the kind of leadership our society so badly needs. Rev. Dr. William Barber II and others from that effort have tapped into a source of real hope in hard times: the potential unity of all of us who are hurting, against the people in power; the discovery that we have more in common with each other than the people who make all the decisions that govern our lives — in state capitols, in Washington, and in banks and boardrooms. More than a shared pain, in North Carolina they’ve uncovered shared values as well.
These are the values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; of democracy and equal protection under the law; of a just and righteous God; and of our responsibility to love and care for one another. For too long, these values and their sources — the Bible and other sacred texts, along with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution — have been turned upside-down, used to shame us and divide us in the service of the powerful. The Revival national tour is about working on national and a state level to revive the true meaning and power of those values, along with our ability and our determination to fight alongside one another and not against one another.