While Donald Trump is fond of saying what a great Christian he is, the truth is quite another matter. Is it Biblical to steal from people (Trump University), berate your fellow-man as a loser or liar (Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz), or talk about the size of your penis? No, it isn’t. And now a church in New Zealand is making it clear where they stand on Trump.
The Community of Saint Luke near Auckland, New Zealand, has put up a billboard which will remain until after Easter showing Trump nailing Jesus Christ to a cross and exclaiming:
“I don’t like losers.”
Glynn Cardy, the minister of the church, said the billboard was erected to highlight racist and offensive comments and to make the point that such things are not Christian behavior:
“For those of us at St Luke’s, the cross is about politics. Jesus was killed – violently, publicly and shamefully – because he spoke truth to power and confronted the leaders of his day about their treatment of the outcasts.”
On the church’s Facebook page, Pastor Cardy also notes:
“To the Trumps of his day, and to those who see winners as having money and power, the Jesus of the Bible was a loser who associated with those rejected by society. And he died broke. Jesus had an alternative vision of reality, however. He was a person who sided with minorities and those who were most vulnerable, and it was this that got him killed.
“I hope that voters in the US will see Trump’s message for what it is, and not make him a nominee for their highest office.”
And to that, I can only add a hearty AMEN!
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