President Donald Trump has slammed radical Anglican bishops who used church services to preach.
On Tuesday, the Rev. Marian Budde, right, used her sermon at the Washington National Cathedral to send a direct message to President Trump, who was sitting in front of the church.
The message sounded more like a progressive activist's rant than a Bible sermon. There were no Bible citations, just a weaponization of Christian values of “compassion” and “mercy” to apparently justify a liberal vision of immigration policy and LGBTQ issues.
“She had a bad tone, was neither persuasive nor intelligent.”
President Trump did not hesitate to refute it with all his might in a late-night statement.
President Trump: “The so-called bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Meeting Tuesday morning was a hard-liner on the radical left who hates President Trump.'' Said.
President Trump also highlighted the most serious problem with Budde's message, saying, “She brought her church into politics in a very disrespectful way.”
“Her tone was poor, she was not persuasive and she was not intelligent,” Trump said. “She didn't mention the large number of illegal immigrants that have come into our country and killed people, many of them from prisons and psychiatric hospitals. This is a huge crime wave happening in the United States. ”
“Apart from her inappropriate comments, the service was very boring and uninspiring,” he continued. “She's not very good at her job. She and her church owe the public an apology.”
What happened at the Washington National Cathedral is not all that surprising.
The Episcopal Church is one of the most liberal mainline Protestant denominations and affirms all progressive cultural issues. That's why TEC member is bleeding on an annual basis.
The TEC's liberal tendencies forced a split in the church in the early 21st century, when the conservative Episcopal Church broke away and established the Episcopal Church of North America.
Moreover, Budde appears to be very much a product of TEC's progressivism. I describe myself as “I am an advocate and organizer in support of justice issues such as racial equality, gun violence prevention, immigration reform, full inclusion of LGBTQ+ people, and care for creation,” she said of President Trump. He criticizes it frankly. speaks to ABC News In 2020, “President Trump needs to be replaced.”
Budde, of course, defended his sermon on CNN.
“I wanted to present a vision of what unity could look like in this country that transcends differences and perspectives and recognizes our common humanity,” she said. said.
It remains unclear whether views contrary to liberal progressivism can be part of that “unity.”
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