Baptist Editor calls out Trump's "MAGA Mafia," saying "This is not Christianity"

[lees1975]

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https://baptistnews.com/article/this-is-not-christianity/

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/02/baptist-editor-calls-out-trumps-maga.html

“How can people who claim to be Christians do these things?”

That’s among a set of recurring questions people the world over keep asking about the Trump administration and its MAGA mafia in America.

While too many have danced around these questions for too long, it’s now time to say with clarity: These actions are not Christian. And the people advocating these cruel policies and implementing them show no evidence of bearing the true fruit of the Christian faith. Indeed, quite the opposite.

When has Donald Trump ever shown evidence of a Christ-centered way of thinking or governing? Just because he says he’s going to “protect” Christians doesn’t mean a thing. The political supporters he’s pledging to protect are the very people who have lost the plot on our faith and worship his greed and corruption.

And when has Elon Musk ever shown evidence of a Christ-centered way of thinking? The world’s richest man is stingy with his riches. He needs to climb up a tree so Jesus can call him down to a luncheon heart-to-heart. Yes, Musk has donated $7 billion to charity — a pittance of his wealth — but that money largely has gone to “charities” that benefit himself. Zacchaeus was a better follower of Jesus than Musk.

We could go on and on with the list of those closest to Trump and guiding his administration and find time and again people who claim to be Christian while taking anti-God actions that would make an Old Testament prophet blush in shock.

None of this is Christian.

[Vogon_Glory]

1. I wonder how long this guy will keep his job?

Evangelicals LOVE God-Emperor Donald and to criticize him is tantamount to heresy.

[lees1975]

2. He's not in any danger.

Baptist News Global is owned by the Baptist General Association of Virginia, which is, for lack of a better way to describe it, a liberal Baptist group, and part of a larger more liberal group of Baptists who have broken away from fundamental conservative Evangelicalism. Actually, they are more connected to the traditional Baptist theology and doctrine and political perspective which influenced Jefferson and Madison to separate church from state and insert the establishment clause into religious liberty in the constitution. And while they're not as openly political on the left as their counterparts on the right, they are solid allies of political progressivism.