"But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander."
Matthew 15:18-19 (New Revised Standard Version).
Evil intentions, false witness, slanderthat is, lying and making false, derogatory statements about anotherthis is how one corrupts themselves. If you say anything to deceive, those words defile you. If you cast another in a derogatory light, making false statements of impunity against another, those words defile you. In other words, Jesus is saying don't lie and don't slander.
But Donald J. Trump disagrees. Lies? Listen to his speeches. Listen to what he claims he has accomplished. Listen to the blame he spews on everyone else. Slander? Anyone who disagrees with Donald J. Trump is attacked verbally, denigrated, insulted, demeaned. Again, just read his Twitter feed.
And yet American Christians across the nation never ask the simple question about Donald J. Trump and his behavior, his words: is that what Jesus would have done?
Instead, again, crickets.
Even most vociferous professed Christian in the administration, Mike Pence, is silent about his boss's behavior. It is really no surprise, though, because for Mike Pence to try to correct Donald J. Trump would be like Mike Pence trying to take a speck out of Trump's eye while ignoring the log in his own. (See Luke 6:42). Afterall, Mike Pence has his own corrupting words to answer forhis own false witness, his own deceptions.
Mike Pence has said the Affordable Care Act is a "disastrous policy that's been killing jobs," despite the fact that in its first full year of implementation, job growth reached a 15-year high. He later described the State of Kentucky as a "textbook example" the failure of the Affordable Care Act where the truth was that the uninsured rate had dropped 14% because of how well the state implemented the ACA. When talking about the pandemic, Mike Pence said "All 50 states and territories across this country are opening up safely and responsibly" at the time Texas and Florida had to pull back their reopening plans and impose strict safety measures because of the surge of infections that were the result of irresponsible reopenings. And this was happening throughout the nation. But Mike Pence continues to say "We slowed the spread, we flattened the curve, we saved lives."
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