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MAGA attacks Christians

MAGA attacks Christians

If the shoe fits.

By Keith Thomas

1/23/2025

Mercy

            At the National Prayer Service held on Tuesday January 21st Episcopalian bishop Mariann Budde made a prayerful plea for mercy at the end of her sermon for those in our society that are vulnerable to Trump’s edicts; specifically gay, lesbian, and transgender Americans as well as immigrants and those fleeing persecution and violence.[1] Trump and his family were in attendance as well as other MAGA Republicans. Here’s the text of her prayer.

“Let me make one final plea, Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you and, as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families, some who fear for their lives. The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings; who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants; who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals. They…may not be citizens or have the proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, gurudwaras and temples. I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. And that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all once strangers in this land. May God grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being, to speak the truth to one another in love and walk humbly with each other and our God for the good of all people. Good of all people in this nation and the world. Amen”

            A pastor begging for mercy for the poor, exploited and downtrodden! What an outrage! Jesus must be turning over in his grave. Rev. Budde evidently didn’t get the MAGA memo that all religious leaders are supposed to praise Dear Leader Trump.

            Media is saying that Rev Budde called out President Trump to his face when in actuality she begged for mercy for people with her prayer. OMG! The horror! Dear Leader could only have been “called out” if what she said in her sermon applied to him. Based upon his tantrum I’m guessing it did.

You know … when Trump claimed that God saved him so that he could make America great again by rounding up millions of brown people, destroying the lives of good decent people, and sticking them in camps he should have known that there would be blowback from some courageous religious leaders.[2] Especially when you consider that during the last year of his first administration God sent a plague. 

Anyway, MAGA came unglued. They lost their ever-lovin’ minds. Trump has made it quite clear since that he’s showing NO mercy. Dear Leader reserves his mercy for those that attacked and ransacked our Capitol in an attempt to overturn the legitimate vote of the people by pardoning all of them. BTW one of them has already been arrested again on other federal charges. Those will get dismissed too. He’s the guy that threw an explosive device at 25 police officers.[3] The MAGA cream of the Law-and-Order crop.

            You can view the entire service < here. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhHE8fvf92M Rev Budde’s comments start at the 1 hour 33-minute mark. She used a lot of words and phrases during her 15-minute sermon that trigger woke MAGA like, unity, the common good, freedom, diversity, respect, merciful, humility, forgive, equality, dignity, honesty. She even had the nerve to bring up the teachings of Jesus in her sermon! Where will the radical ideological madness end?!

            MAGA responded in a less than positive fashion with their usual ugliness and Dear Leader has demanded an apology from the left-wing nasty bishop and her church. One Republican congressman said that she should be deported.[4] [5] Then of course there are the usual MAGA death threats. It must be in the MAGA operations manual. The extreme right-wing Putin loving Christian Nationalists that have taken the biblical liar Trump under their wing are of course outraged that a pastor would give a sermon based upon the teachings of Christ and not their Project 2025.

Here are some more inflammatory words from Jesus.

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”


[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/22/trump-bishop-mariann-edgar-budde

[2] Trump divinely inspired, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eKRLkhC7Ng

[3] https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5100384-daniel-ball-arrest-gun-charges-jan-6-pardon/

[4] https://news.sky.com/story/mariann-edgar-budde-who-is-the-bishop-donald-trump-called-nasty-13294222

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