Conservative Christians
Need to Let Go of Their Anger
Secular Americans Are Not The Enemy
By Steve Rensberry
RPNews/Opinion
(St. Louis, MO) -- Instead of conservative religious crusaders and MAGA fundamentalists praying for the death of liberal secularists and freethinkers like myself, maybe they should try praying for their God to give our current president some humility and compassion for other human beings. How many people on the planet, exactly, do they want to die, because that seems to be the goal.
In killing the USAID program, how are MAGA extremist supporters and conservative Christians not complicit in the human suffering that will result, and the deaths? They will all have blood on their hands. We have become a nation of hate, with some self-appointed 'prophets' in the Christian faith even welcoming the chaos as a 'sign of the times.' Well the so-called prophets are wrong, seriously wrong, and "prophecy" itself is a ridiculous concept. Modern day "prophets" are but bullshitters for the modern age, and I would challenge any minister of the faith, any preacher, any philospher or theologian anywhere to prove me wrong.
Maybe the literalists and nativists will rejoice in the bloodshed America is currently threatened by, thinking it's "God's way," I really don't know anymore how low they'll go, how much death and suffering American evangelicals will tolerate, if there is even a limit.
I do know that a day does not go by when my heart doesn't bleed for the people being hurt by this insane and evil MAGA administration, and by people claiming to speak for God.
It is so wrong, so heretical and so evil, and I am not going to stand by and twiddle my thumbs while good people are being hurt by tyrants under the cloak of religious authority or any other. I sincerely hope that you will not either.
Nations need to pursue reason over superstition if they hope to survive. --- 4/1/2025
Further Reading
Why Conservative Christians Hate Compassion, by Clint Schnekloth.
"In recent years, conservative Christian voices
have been on a tear, decrying compassion as a threat to traditional
Christian values. The argument is that compassion—especially when
it extends to marginalized groups—gives progressive Christians
leverage to dismantle conservative moral teachings."
The U.S. government’s decision to abruptly halt much foreign aid delivered a seismic jolt to programmes to tackle tuberculosis (TB), which killed 1.25 million people in 2023, 15% of whom were children and young adolescents.
The cuts came hours before the Trump administration was ordered to pay organizations for past work, which was mandated by a federal judge — once again — on Tuesday.
The devastating impact of Trump’s slashing foreign aid, from HIV to malnutrition
