Yesterday, President Trump chose to walk from the White House to St. John’s Episcopal Church. In the process, lawful, peaceful protestors were gassed and hit with rubber bullets so that Trump could make the short walk to the church. There he held up a Bible upside down and had his photo taken. He didn’t pray, read a Bible verse or speak at all.
I can’t for the life of me understand why he did this. He gained nothing from lifting up a Bible for a prop in front of a church that he doesn’t attend. The whole event smacked of base hypocrisy. He used his power and authority in ways opposed to the Christian faith that I affirm.
I quote from Melissa Florer-Bixler, “In this book are the words of a pregnant, brown, teenage Jew living under military occupation, born into poverty, who said that one day the powerful would one day be cast down from their thrones and the rich sent away empty. This would be the work of God.”
Jesus’ way as detailed in this book, the Bible, was to lift up the poor, the marginalized, the sick and the hopeless. When Jesus gave his disciples a model prayer, what we call the Lord’s prayer, he said, “Let your kingdom come.” The kingdom of God, which is the opposite of this world’s systems’, can break into this current world system if we truly embody the words in this book, the Bible.
Lord, help me to discern correctly in this book what you want from me.
Gumbo Ya-Ya 
Laurie: I can’t fathom either why Trump pulled such a clumsy stunt.
Some have said the was trying to project personal courage by walking through a group of hostile protestors, or attempting to gain favor among his base of evangelical supporters.
He didn’t succeed on either count. It’s not particularly courageous to walk down a path cleared beforehand of all protesters by a phalanx of armed policemen using tear gas. And using the Bible as a cheap prop is almost a desecration of it, a gesture that should offend most Christians.
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I agree that it didn’t show any personal courage to walk cleared forcibly of protestors.
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“I can’t for the life of me understand why he did this.“
Does anyone have a clue? Cause I don’t.
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Enough said.
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The man will lie when the truth will do better-it starts there.
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Lying seems to be ingrained into his personality. It’s very strange to lie so often and so obviously.
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