"I’m looking for the helpers, the first-responders, the members of the opposition who will not just stand by or turn away while a sociopathic president abuses his power to attack the vulnerable, exalt the violent and trash the Constitution."
~ Steven Beschloss
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/take-strength-from-the-helpers
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"These are the people who will help us navigate through the darkness and the overwhelming commitment to inflicting damage. Their actions—their refusal to allow Trump’s poisonous agenda to spread unanswered—is where we’ll find nourishment and the promise that this cruel public will end and we will return again to pursuing a better future."
Steven Beschloss points to Bishop Mariann Budde and her willingness to speak out.
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"Bishop Budde was an unflinching example of prophetic boldness, integrity, and truth when she looked directly at President Trump and appealed for mercy and compassion for people who, in the words of Howard Thurman, 'live with their backs against the wall.' No ruler can dominate people who live with a faith that refuses to shrink.
Let’s follow her example."
~ Wendell Griffen
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https://substack.com/home/post/p-155608044
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Noting that Bishop Mariann Budde spoke directly to the man occupying the White House, "directly eye to eye," "about compassion, humility, kindness, honesty, honoring the inherent dignity of every person," Rachel Maddow asks,
"What do you see as the role of the church in helping lead the public and helping us understand what our moral responsibilities are right now?"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsKZA0bBNu8
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Bishop Budde responds:
"We're in a particularly harsh moment now when it comes to conversations around immigrant populations in our midst, and so that was the reason for the tone I took."
Then she notes that she took the opportunity to speak from the pulpit as a religious leader, addressing a powerful man directly, and creating a space for a narrative that the powerful are suppressing now:
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"There hasn't been much of a narrative outside of the narrative that the president has been describing, right? People have gone quiet or they've been ignored."
In other words, with what she said and did, Bishop Budde wanted to open a space for many others to be heard, whose voices are now suppressed by Republicans, Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, the rich and powerful who want total control of the conversation.
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"Christian Nazis, white supremacists and fascists hate it when you show Jesus to them. In fact, I’d argue that there’s nothing in the world they hate more than Jesus. ...
But this is all of MAGA, and all of white conservative Christianity, be it protestant or Catholic. This sickness has invaded the entire body."
~ Evan Hurst
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https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/there-is-nothing-trump-and-maga-hate
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"If Jesus were resurrected today he’d be immediately canceled and attacked by MAGA for being a woke, DEI-hire libtard.
In the absence of a petty, vindictive, vengeful 'warrior Jesus' who will 'own the libs; and engage in a 24-7 Festivus, these alleged Christians with family values have their avatar in Donald Trump,"
~ Wajahat Ali
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/what-would-jesus-do-during-trumps
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(continued from /8) "a man who incited a violent insurrection, has cheated on every single one of his wives, and said his personal Vietnam was avoiding STDs. When these 'religious' MAGA Christian voters, who make up the most loyal part of Trump’s base, actually listen to a Christian who echoes the teachings of the Jesus I met in the Bible, they get triggered."
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his crypto --
money changer, anyone ?
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@nanowiz Since it seems the goal of these folks is to rewrite the Christian gospels, because of how objectionable they are, that seems entirely possible, doesn't it?
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