Leave Jesus Out of It – a Christian’s Frustration with the Trump Phenomenon

By: JANA GREENE

Some of y’all had your say. Now I’m going to have mine. I interrupt the “regularly scheduled programming” to have a little commentary on Christian Nationalism. (In a former blog, I once had a reader comment, “THIS is NO PLACE for POLITICS!” Um, it’s my little piece of real estate on the web, and my blog, and as such, I reserve the right to write whatever I damn well please. Aint nobody making you follow me. It’s still a free country! Not sure for how long, but…

“Bad Faith” on Amazon Prime is upsetting, terrifying, and should be recommended viewing for any soul who “follows Jesus.” It is not a “liberal” movie – many Jesus-loving believers who are NOT Christian Nationalists get their say too. Yes, we DO exist. Please consider giving it a watch.

I am absolutely sick that Jesus – the one who embodies the fruits of the spirit – charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control, etc. – is being trotted out as an effigy in a MAGA hat, pimped out by “Christian” Nationalists with entitlement complexes, and being affixed to a movement that does not honor him in the least.

I cannot imagine Jesus waving an American flag any more than I can see him in a …

“I ❤️ ROME!” T-shirt.

The God who spoke us ALL into existence, and created the entire UNIVERSE, omnipresent and all-powerful, thinks WE – a people who do not even originate here but stole every inch of it – are the “chosen.”

The self-importance! The arrogance, to believe he chooses Americans above other nations and peoples, while having no concern for racism, poverty, human rights, feeding the hungry, or doing any damn thing that might humble them in the least.

How did we GET here? America ain’t all that anymore. I’m embarrassed right now. I imagine Jesus saying, “I know you not,” when seeing the hoards of entitled conservatives storming the White House. And the party has chosen the single least-like-Jesus person on the planet to head their cause.

Forgive us, God, for our utter arrogance. And forgive those who speak in word but not deed – even though I’m certain this is not a “they know not what they do” excuse. They know.

As a former Christian Nationalist myself years ago, I asked God to break my heart for what breaks his. And guess what? He didn’t break it on account of billionaires with megalomaniac tendencies. Or people who are intolerant, smug in their resolution that social justice doesn’t matter, or unwilling to see a point of view different from their own.

Be conservative if you want. But leave my Jesus OUT of your politics.