Why Do Trump's Acolytes Wear Christian Crosses?

Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump’s press secretary, wears a Christian cross around her neck, every time she speaks on his behalf, and most of it is hypocrisy and lies.

Does she know what the Christian gospels teach? Her attitude and vituperative comments defending the administration’s behaviors, which are anything but Christian in nature, are ignorant at best or hypocritical at least. While watching her skewer reporters and spew hatred every time she steps up to the podium, I experience emotions ranging from shock to rage. I would have a hard time with her even without the cross, but when I watch her speak on behalf of our president wearing a Christian symbol, I feel anything but love.

Does she know that Jesus, his parents, and his disciples had brown skin and dark hair, and that they didn’t have blue eyes?

Does she know that Jesus welcomed the stranger, the leper, and the rejected?

Does she know anything about the Sermon on the Mount or the Beatitudes?

Has she ever read about the good Samaritan?

Does she know how hard Jesus came down on the hypocritical Pharisees, the high priests of his own religion (Judaism)?

It does not appear so.

Does she know that one of the ten commandments prohibits lying?

If she had been in Jerusalem the day that Jesus was executed, would she have stood under the dying man on the cross and experienced any horror or anger?

Would she have wanted justice for an innocent man? A man who was kind, caring, and welcoming?

Does she know that Jesus’s ministry was about mercy?

It doesn’t appear so. But if she is going to wear the symbol of Jesus Christ’s message and ministry, she ought to know what it stands for.

Her necklace is not just a piece of jewelry. It is a symbol of a belief system and a world view. It prescribes a certain way of thinking and behaving. No doubt various Christian religions assign different meanings to the words Jesus spoke, but one cannot exhibit such disregard for fellow human beings, and call oneself a Christian, as she appears to do.

It doesn’t work that way.

So Karoline, while I am well aware of the old adage that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, I am also well aware of what you are selling and it has nothing to do with the message of Jesus.

I’d have a bit of sympathy and even a little respect for you if you didn’t wear a Christian cross defending someone who is closer to the anti-Christ than the worst of the worst (i.e., Caligula, Stalin, Hitler, or Idi Amin).

I do feel a bit sorry for you, because I don’t think you believe the poison you promote every day. But come on, girl, do you really want to live the rest of your life having to answer for what you are doing now? Will your grandkids be proud of your role in dismantling a country that thinks it subscribes to a Christian perspective?

Does she realize that Jesus was murdered because the people in power didn’t like what he was saying?

That he was speaking truth to power?

That he saw right through them?

Probably not.

So, let’s be honest about this. Jesus would be appalled.