If the most powerful people living in America actually consistently lived in accordance with their Christian teachings then all other Christians and Non-Christians alike would not be so unfairly treated, unemployed, unskilled, in need of welfare, in need of food stamps, in need of rental assistance, in need of addiction services, in need of prison reform or subjected to police brutality or plagued by a growing list of clear evidence of failures of injustice that goes on and on.
Fact: This country has not faithfully practiced Christian values or 'fruits of the spirit' for more than two hundred and fifty years. Instead it has repeatedly resisted the strongest efforts to do so through the perpetuation of the exploitation and oppression of others (i.e., genocide, slavery, lynchings, school segregation, eugenics, nativism, exploitation, housing, hiring and wage discrimination, unfair lending practices, white supremacy, and voter suppression and gerrymandering).
This continent's spiritual identity had already been defined by multiple indigenous nations long before the first bible was ever brought to its shores. Foolishly in my opinion, as was the case with its earliest Western European settlers, America continues to turn a blind eye in the 21st Century to the broad and rich reservoir of elder wisdom of other faith and belief traditions when it comes to better and collectively addressing the fundamental issues of freedom, equality, happiness, liberty, and justice for all in our nation.
If the Office of the President and its administrative cabinet is unable and unwilling to display in whole the Christian values and practices that they formally pledged to uphold before God and that are meant to be addressed in the best interests of our countries many tribes of people that it swore to serve and protect then not only has that sacred pledge been ruthlessly forsaken but the current administration has also mischievously committed a grand theft of the people's highest trust. Consequently, as a recourse the people should give serious consideration to suing the President of the United States for the resulting damages incurred from so much egregious wrongdoing, and mental anguish and material suffering.
Sadly, it seems as though far too many Christians have been slow to fully recognize and conscientiously respond to this President's breach of his oath, his flagrant hypocrisy as a Christian, and the grave and ever-widening harm that he is continuing to unleash on great numbers of American citizens and visitors to this country alike (i.e., American workers, the disabled, the poor, women, Africa, Canada, Haiti, Mexico, Muslims, Puerto Rico, and Veterans of War).
Jesus gave us a beautiful and simple test for the measure of anything when he said, almost offhand, "You will know them by their fruits" (Matt.7:16 NASB). A cut to the chase test. You can hold it up to reveal a church, movement, man, or nation. What is the fruit? What does it leave in its wake? I've found it an immediate and revealing test.
~ John Eldridge Colorado, 2010
This President is repeatedly showing Cardinal Signs of Spiritual Heart Failure. Therefore, he looks to be in urgent need of spiritual resuscitation.
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