Graham’s well-publicized national prayer tours and public endorsements of Trump for the past five years have helped to secure loyalty for the president among white evangelicals. As recently as mid-December, he thanked God for 45 and claimed he would be remembered as one of America’s great presidents. So, he likened them to Judas and thereby blasphemously equated Donald Trump with Jesus - likening a demagogue to the one Christians see as divine.įranklin Graham has been one of Trump’s most faithful supporters.
That would not adequately engage and enrage the thousands of white Christians who follow Graham. But he was not content to couch their vote in the House in a political context. There are noted examples of traitors in American history that Graham might have chosen had he simply wanted to emphasize what he deemed the betrayal of the president by those he considered to be Republican “turncoats.” Benedict Arnold. It is falsely declaring a correspondence between two radically different passions - the love of power and the power of love. It is associating one who, refusing to admit defeat, instructed his supporters to “fight like hell,” with the man who, when threatened with death, told his followers to put down their swords. Graham is comparing a man who has done everything he can to hold on to his position of enormous power with one who rejected the temptation of an earthly kingdom and crown. “Graham’s inference that Donald Trump is comparable to Jesus by asserting a parallel between the 10 Republicans and Judas is ludicrous at best and, at the worst, is sheer blasphemy.” On the other hand, Graham’s inference that Donald Trump is comparable to Jesus by asserting a parallel between the 10 Republicans and Judas is ludicrous at best and, at the worst, is sheer blasphemy. To speak of a “feeding frenzy” and insinuate they received a payoff is nothing but a cheap shot.
To suggest that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is somehow equivalent to the Jewish chief priest is itself bad hermeneutics, for it implies that rather than holding President Trump accountable for his sedition against the United States and his attack on democracy by inciting a riot, she is plotting to get rid of him because she is jealous of his popularity or fearful of losing her own prominence.Īdditionally, this false equivalency denigrates the character of 10 conscientious Republican legislators who courageously took a stand against lawlessness in our country, despite great personal and political risk. Of course, the 30 pieces of silver is a reference to the money Jesus’ enemies paid to his disciple Judas Iscariot as a reward for betraying where Jesus could be found and arrested far from the masses of his adoring followers (See Matthew 26:15).
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