Trump 2.0 - Day 4

We will return at a later date to Franklin Graham's Balaam-inspired blasphemies and the Trump administration's plan to weaponize the justice department - the very opposite of what's being promised.

I found the expanded powers of Federal immigration to be noteworthy. Agents will now be able to enter schools, hospitals, and places of religious worship in order to seize illegal immigrants. We will for the sake of argument set aside the question of church buildings and whether or not they are legitimate...

It is an unlikely scenario I will admit, but how will these Christo-Trumpites feel if agents entered their services and locked on to say, the Gomez family located in a middle pew? Would they be okay with such an action taking place? Would they celebrate it?

If so, then one must wonder just how they conceive of the Church and where their loyalties are to be found. But again, considering the syncretistic rhetoric of a figure like Franklin Graham, the fact that confusion reigns in the Church is hardly a surprise.

I think it more likely the policy is directed toward churches that are allowing immigrants to stay in their basement or are engaged in feeding these people. How very sad that the churches doing this are all too often ones that have a low view of Scripture - even while they take the actual imperatives of Christ very seriously.

On this point they put so-called Evangelicals to shame.

While I cannot agree with or celebrate the theologically liberal cleric at the National Cathedral, the so-called Episcopal Bishop of Washington, it is again to the shame and disgrace of the Evangelical movement that such people are willing to speak, and call out leaders such as Trump. It should be the Bible-believers who are speaking loud and clear - not to Trump per se, but in terms of the issues. They should be speaking to their flocks and calling to repentance those who have sold out their faith or abandoned it for the counterfeit Christianity which surrounds Trump. But they, like the covenant breakers and apostates of Jeremiah's day, love to have it so.

In this case we have counterfeits calling out counterfeits and it just breeds confusion.

But I think it a very ugly and troubling thing to contemplate federal agents entering churches to seize congregants and this being sanctioned or celebrated by Christians? It is a sure signal of something rotten - a veritable cancer that is spreading within the larger Church. It's already terminal and its rapidly metastasizing. For those still within the Babylon-Evangelical fold - come out of her, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.

As if there weren't already enough examples of this confusion and deadly error - but with Trumpism the political dimension vis-à-vis the Church takes on a new and dangerous character that cannot be ignored.