Like many supporters of God-President Donald Trump, I am outraged – sickened, actually – that a so-called bishop would stand up in a so-called church and ask the new president to engage in some weird liberal behavior called “mercy.”
In case you missed it, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde presided over the inaugural prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral on Tuesday and directly addressed the president, saying: “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.”
Can you believe a person of the cloth would say something so vicious and extreme? No wonder Trump ran to social media to call Budde “nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart” and write: “The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater.”
As a conservative, I have long believed the No. 1 job of an American president is to attack faith leaders who don’t fully agree with him, so it was good to see Trump rise to the occasion and go alpha-dog on an actual bishop.
How dare that so-called bishop ask Trump to care about other people
That radical-leftist requester of mercy crossed a serious line when she suggested the person who runs the country should look out for vulnerable Americans and strive for unity and understanding.
Budde said at the service that “there are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives.” And she said “the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.”
Fox News was quick to label the Episcopalian bishop ‘Satan’
Outrage over a religious figure promoting the kind of thing religions promote spread like wildfire Wednesday, with the saintly journalists at Fox News spreading the good word that the bishop is actually “Satan.”
Sean Hannity also called her a “so-called bishop” and said: “She made the service about her very own deranged political beliefs with a disgraceful prayer full of fearmongering and division.”
Yes, if there’s one thing I learned in my Christian upbringing, it’s that mercy is deranged and we should absolutely dehumanize people who are in any way different from us.
A bishop’s plea for mercy is both ‘disturbing’ and ‘evil’
Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to Budde’s comments by telling Fox News: “Everybody there was shocked and mortified by the disturbing comments from this bishop who chose to weaponize the pulpit. … She spewed lies. She said that President Trump has called immigrants criminals. He calls illegal immigrants criminals because, in fact, they are criminals by definition. If you break our nation’s laws, you are a criminal.”
Nobody should know that breaking laws makes you a criminal better than President Trump.
