Within Christianity there is a rich, prophetic tradition of civil disobedience and resistance to empire. For hundreds of years we’ve been refusing to bow down to narcissistic tyrants like Trump. He is not the first King to build a golden statue of himself and towers with his name branded on them. Trump is just the newest manifestation of imperial idolatry.
We must not bow down. As the early Christians said, “We must obey God not Caesar.”
And as much as Trump wants to make all this about himself, let us not forget for a minute that this is about the people of Gaza. It is their lives that are at stake.
Our Savior blessed the poor, the meek, the merciful, the peacemakers, the widows and orphans… all those who were being crushed by the Empire.
Without the assistance the U.S. had been providing, millions of people – especially children – around the world will likely die.
‘Truly I tell you, just as you did to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did to me.’ Matthew 25:40.”
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This is pure gaslighting. There is no working waiver process. Marco can pretend the the real Secretary of State, Elon Musk, didn't shut down USAID, but he did.
1/ My national security team looked into the functionally nonexistent "wavier process" and here's what they found:
“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” -Gandhi
Get ready. The days ahead are going to demand good trouble, holy mischief, and civil disobedience.
When we Christians are more known for our support of presidents than we are for our support of the poor, the immigrant, the marginalized, and the oppressed, that is when we know we are following someone other than Jesus and we have a lot of repenting to do.
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have deeply, deeply misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
On Wednesday night, at the Democratic National Convention, America was introduced to 17 year-old Gus Walz, the son of Gwen Walz and Gov. Tim Walz, who instantly became a national treasure due to an unexpectedly emotional moment of pride and joy for his father.
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"We must scale up international finance, national resources and private investments to #EndHunger we have no time to lose,” said @AnneBeathe_ following up on the historic food system declaration from #COP28 https://t.co/9B9RqaOnlf
The last administration enacted a $2 trillion tax cut that overwhelmingly benefitted the top 1% and big corporations.
Do you believe there should be $5 trillion more of tax cuts skewed to the wealthy and big corporations?
I sure don’t.
My work here in Pennsylvania is far from finished — there is a lot more stuff I want to get done for our Commonwealth.
Over the next 90 days, I look forward to traveling all across the Commonwealth to unite Pennsylvanians behind my friends Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and defeat Donald Trump.
See you tonight in Philly.