People who adopt a more modernist take on Christianity lean heavily on the Gospel of Matthew, insisting believers should not be quick to judge others, lest they be judged. But the evangelical Christians promoted by The Washington Post aggressively judge Christians who decided to vote for Donald Trump.
Post columnist Michael Gerson, a former chief speechwriter to President George W. Bush, sounded like he was writing a speech for President Joe Biden in a sprawling 4,295-word Sept. 4 essay titled “Trump should fill Christians with rage. How come he doesn’t?” If you don’t rage like Gerson, you’re not a good Christian.
Since 2016, many Christians have struggled to support Trump, whose public behavior is the opposite of Christian humility and kindness. But Gerson treats every Trump supporter as a “MAGA Republican,” saying that many believers are taking “perverse and dangerous liberties” with their faith, aligning with the “symbols and identity of white authoritarian populism,” a “serious, unfolding threat to liberal democracy.”
This doesn’t sound like a conservative Christian columnist. It sounds like the average Washington Post staffer mounting his hobby horse in their official “Democracy Dies in Darkness” T-shirt. Gerson’s stuck in a rut, regurgitating his righteous thunderbolts like an Episcopalian Max Boot.
A conservative Christian could write a stern lecture to fellow believers to avoid falling into hatred, unproven conspiracy theories and, most darkly, into violent rioting. Christians should reflect daily on whether their own personal (and political) behavior is worthy of Jesus Christ. But Gerson denies the threats to religious freedom that have driven Christians to vote for Trump, especially the aggressive advance of radical gender ideology.
Gerson dismisses “baseless accusations of gay ‘grooming’ in schools” and “a patently false belief that Godless conspiracies have taken hold of political institutions.” Somehow, Gerson can’t engage with the evidence pouring out from Twitter accounts like Christopher Rufo and “Libs of TikTok” that demonstrate a crusade to indoctrinate young children into a thicket of choosing personal pronouns and then alternative sexual expressions. Calling that “baseless” is willful blindness.
This Post evangelist accuses Republicans of exploiting Christian defensiveness in service to “aggressive, reactionary politics.” But he can’t spend a sentence of his long jeremiad on religious freedoms being crushed. He could address the two Alaska Airlines flight attendants who were fired last year because they asked questions about the company’s support of the radical Equality Act and how it would impact people with religious beliefs. The airline argued, “Defining gender identity or sexual orientation as a moral issue … is … a discriminatory statement.”
He could claim the angst of Christians is unduly “apocalyptic” because the Supreme Court is still friendly to religious freedom, like the recent case of the high school football coach who was fired over saying prayers at midfield after games. But that result came from three Supreme Court justices appointed by Trump. He can’t acknowledge for one second the contradiction — that this thrice-married crude talker with a propensity to mangle the truth and encourage riots has become the man who has shielded religious freedom from a radical and godless onslaught.
Gerson is “surveying the transgressive malevolence of the radical right” and finding only “moral ruin” among Republicans without ever seriously addressing the transgressions of the radical left. But then, The Washington Post is one of those transgressors, routinely lobbying against any inkling of an “anti-LGBTQ backlash.” He said, “When you choose your community, you choose your character.” Is his chosen media community the Christian model?
We could ask him this question: “The Washington Post should fill Christians with rage. How come it doesn’t?”
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Most Christians of the Liberal persuasion always embrace the “Judge not lest Ye be judged”,,,but usually when it comes to their own being judged, stop at the “Judge not” Part. Enlightened Modern Evangelicals complete the Liberal Christians half-truth and go on to do as Christ commanded, to first judge ourselves, remove the log in our own eyes to see clearly to remove the spec of our brother’s, and by that standard judge others by God’s standards and commandments, not throw out the standards. They embrace the completing commandment of “Go and sin not more” which the Liberals ignore, knowing full well the human frailties that may get in the way of perfection attempts to be as perfect as only the Perfect Creator is, but still doggedly are determined if they are to fall short, it will be as by as small a margin as any one imperfect being can be. Liberals on the other hand just use the “Judge Not” to guilt trip the perfection seekers into looking the other way while these misguided blank-check Christians just go about celebrating and enlarging their lustful imperfections believing they will still be saved. God is no fool.
Matthew 7:22-23
English Standard Version
22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Trump is proof positive that God works miracles through imperfection, makes lemonade out of lemons, no matter how sour they sound, but whose works help so many others.
AND SINCE they all embrace LGBTQ marriage, and abortion on demand, i cannot in anyway, shape or form, SEE HOW THE HELL they can claim to be ‘good christians’…. PERIOD.
“The Washington Post should fill Christians with rage. How come it doesn’t?”
IT DOES! Their is not much we can do about what The Washington Post publishes.
But we can love, have faith in, trust, and follow Jesus Christ son of God.
What the disciples of the treasonous, demonic Democrat Party cult do or say is between them and Satan.
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war
With the cross of Jesus going on before
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe
Forward into battle see His banners go
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war
With the cross of Jesus going on before
At the sign of triumph Satan’s host doth flee
On then, Christian soldiers, on to victory
Hell’s foundations quiver at the shout of praise
Brothers lift your voices, loud your anthems raise
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
2 Corinthians 6:6-8
“by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;”