Rioters set fire to St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington DC.
After the fire, President Trump walked out of the front door of the Whitehouse to visit the church.
The media will tell you that “anonymous sources” say that Trump did that because he didn’t like the criticism that he was “hiding in a bunker” during the “peaceful protest” outside the Whitehouse. This has gotten the hashtag #BunkerBitch trending on Twitter.
Anyone who knows how DC works knows that the one group of people the President takes orders from is the US Secret Service, and when they make a decision prioritizing the President’s safety, he obeys. But pushing the narrative that Trump hid in a bunker like a coward instead of the Secret Service making a tactical decision is just too good to let the truth get in the way.
Also, that peaceful protest resulted in at least sixty Secret Service agents being injured, not to mention the fire of St. John’s church.
Facts aside, President Trump went to the damaged church to address the nation. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, the diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, went on CNN to voice her opinion:
“And in particular, that of the people of color in our nation, who wonder if anyone ever — anyone in public power will ever acknowledge their sacred words. And who are rightfully demanding an end to 400 years of systemic racism and white supremacy in our country. And I just want the world to know, that we in the diocese of Washington, following Jesus and his way of love … we distance ourselves from the incendiary language of this President. We follow someone who lived a life of nonviolence and sacrificial love.”
I’m reminded of a post I wrote a couple of years ago about Rabbi Jeffery Myers who refused to attack Trump after he visited the Tree of Life Synagogue after the shooting.
This Bishop has no words for the people who burned a church. No words of condemnation for the violence carried out under the cover of a protest that has harmed the most vulnerable people in the community.
But she does have words to criticize Trump for trying to restore law and order to the chaos.
When a Bishop cares more about going on CNN to criticize the President than cares about the innocent people hurt by violent rioters, you can tell that she cares less about the teachings of Christianity than she does appealing to the Christmas and Easter DC Liberals that donate.
“…I just want the world to know, that we in the diocese of Washington, following Jesus and his way of love … we distance ourselves from the incendiary language of this President. We follow someone who lived a life of nonviolence and sacrificial love.”
Ah, I see another religious “leader” who subscribes to the portrayal of Jesus as a peacenik flower-child hippie.
Here’s a lesson, “Bishop”:
Sacrificial love, yes. Nonviolence? Not so much.
You’re talking about a man who, when He saw that money-changers and livestock-dealers had taken up shop in the temple, “made a whip of cords [and] He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.” (John 2:15 NKJV) It’s unreasonable to think He would go to the trouble of making a whip of cords and not swing it.
He knew when to use violence and when not to use violence. He knew He was to be the sacrifice for the sake of the world, and so didn’t fight when He was taken; His death served a higher purpose ordained by the Father.
But not fighting when it wasn’t time to fight didn’t and doesn’t make Him a pacifist in any sense, nor did He intend for His followers to all be pacifists.
Go back to seminary, “Bishop”.