Re: Roy Exum: I Stand With Trump
Mr. Exum,
I think you adequately described the difference between my Jesus and your Jesus. It is in our own personal interpretation. The thing is there are clear concise words of Jesus telling us exactly what we must do.
I just want to ask you what Jesus would say and do about standing with Trump. Would He says it’s okay to call people names, lie, take from the poor to enrich the wealthy? Would Jesus stand proudly next to Trump when he encouraged people to use violence against his fellow man, women, and child?
Would Jesus pat Trump on the back and say “well done, my son” when He saw the little children being torn from their mother’s arms and held in deplorable conditions. When He said, “The greatest of these is love” there were no exemptions.
Cecilia Lewis
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In all fairness, I don’t think Jesus would stand with 99 percent of our politicians in Washington be it the left or the right.
Chris Morgan
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Mr. Exum,
One day you will live to be deeply ashamed of the words you have written today. I disagree with you more often than not, but this is inexcusable.
Your reaction to witnessing suffering is a call to send people away by force back to the dangerous places they came from, and if need be, make them even more dangerous by turning them into active war zones.
You, naturally, feel discomfort and guilt at the pain and death our country is deliberately causing, and rather than calling for human rights and dignity and empathy, you use your platform to demand their strife be increased tenfold.
You proudly stand by the man whose policies are ultimately responsible for these horrors.
You say you don't care what happens to them. You want to be able to forget about them and go back to pretending they don't exist. You want us to wash our hands of them.
Pontius Pilate would be proud.
Ray Ingraham
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The voters in Chattanooga largely, I guess, voted for Trump as the president. We have all had lots of opportunities to see him as the action toy that seemingly provides us with one entertainment or embarrassment nearly every day but those members of the voting block that voted for him in 2016 will line up on election day and vote for him again. I can honestly say that I am a moderate Republican but feel left out of the conversations of adoration that seemed to be the feelings for so many.
The wonder of it all is that Trump abuses women, numerous bankruptcies and seemed to be focused on only one thing and that is Donald Trump. Most of us know that he spent $30k or was it $50k for two portraits, painted, of himself. In his office in Trump Tower he keeps mounted pictures of himself.
The question asked and rarely answered is what has he done for the country? Let me cite fallacies, all of them, that devotees think wonderful. He plays golf nearly every weekend but does not pay his own way. We do. He takes the Presidential plane to rallies to tout himself. The national debt was $19 trillion. now it's $23 and climbing. He sends love letters to Putin and short stuff in N. Korea and verbally abuses our friends abroad.
I could go on and on and on and most of the avid followers have not read or heard a word I am writing.
Robert Brooks
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Let me first begin by saying Jesus only stood for one and that was the Father. It was for all others that He laid down His life, died and rose again for our sins.
For the last three years we have heard the constant dribble of Trump bad / Democrats good due to the lost election of the Hillary. Some have literally let this hatred settle into their hearts to the point that just like cancer it is eating them alive. As they ingest a constant barrage of Anti-Trump diet feed to them by our so called news media this has settled into their heart as we see it regurgitated from their mouths.
I voted for Trump not as my pastor or spiritual leader but as the one who I saw fit to stand, support and defend our country and the Constitution of the United States and only those who are drunken on the Kool-Aid of progressive liberalism spout that he hasn’t. Their knee jerk response is Trump and his sins and deficiencies of which I am sure has affected him, his loved ones and most of all God.
We must be careful because all of us have sinned according to the Bible and it furthermore warns us of judging others as that is reserved for God. President Trump will stand in God’s judgment to answer for his sins just as you and I and I know that I’m not looking forward to that as my sins are many. It’s in the confession to God and not man by which our sins are forgiven and I’m sure that President Trump has admitted to his faults and that is between him and God.
We find in the Bible the account of the woman taken in adultery brought to Jesus to see how he would deal with this situation which called for her death. As he scribbled in the dust (possibly the sins of her accusers) and said “ye without sin cast the first stone” they then departed one by one and sometimes one must look into a mirror to see the beam sticking out of one’s own eye. The left is so quick to say “well look into his finances / how many time he’s bankrupted” but let’s understand that all he did was no different than so many in our community who have run into difficult times (either their own doing or something completely out of their control) and had to file bankruptcy. I’m sure if we dug a little we could find Democrats who has used bankruptcy laws to their advantage.
These same people who constantly repeat the talking points against President Trump so conveniently turned a blind eye to the accusations against Bill Clinton and the cover-ups of his actions with only excuses and silence for him and putting the blame on the women he abused.
We have a small minority who under the mantra of “love” blame President Trump for the current “Invasion Crises” at our border. Yes it is an invasion and part of the job as President is to protect and defend our borders. If we used the same logic in the 1940’s all Japan and Germany would have had to do was to land at our airstrips and ports and set foot on American soil and the government would of supplied them with whatever they needed to take over our country making us learn their language and having their culture forced upon us. A better solution would be to allow these Socialist countries to fail and then help them to establish a Democratic Republic which has worked for us some 243 years. If we have no borders we have no country and it’s an asinine thought to say we should have an open border policy as this is just a ploy to garner more people who are dependent on government handouts who will vote for those willing to give them more, We should take care of those who are citizens and send those who are not back home.
It’s true that we have had an increase of government spending and I’m very fearful of that. It is the House which controls spending and yes both parties are guilty of misappropriating funds and I hope that we have candidates elected who understand the importance of fiscal responsibility and responsibility.
In I Timothy 2:1-3 we are commanded to pray for our leaders and not prayers of personal curses of harm that we might live a quiet and peaceable life furthermore are we have the two Great Commandments of loving God with all of our heart, soul and mind with the second being loving thy neighbor as thyself and remember that we all will have to answer for how we loved, even the President.
Jay Reed
Falling Water