Two basic tenets that followers of Christ believe and adhere to are to love God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.
The Trump Administration has flipped this script.
This Administration's actions willfully contradict the teachings of the Gospel. For example:
More than 7 million people risk losing their SNAP benefits. This takes food away from poor and hungry people. (See link to article at the end of this post.)
ICE and CBP are taking migrants and green card holders off the streets of America without due process and detaining them in locations such as "Alligator Alcatraz. The migrants are then deported, sometimes without a court hearing. This mistreats our neighbors and foreigners and displays excessive cruelty. This flies in the face of Leviticus 19, which states, in part: "When a foreigner resides among you...do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born."
With the Trump Administration, misguided and self-centered policies dictate that cruelty toward, and not caring for, our neighbors is the point of their actions.
Jesus instructs us how to flip this script back to the original meaning.
As Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan, a man traveling the Jericho Road suffered a beating by robbers, who stripped him of his clothes. A priest and a Levite both passed by the beaten man, whereas a Samaritan did not pass by, but stopped. The Samaritan treated the man, put him on his donkey, and paid for a stay at an inn, where the Samaritan paid for the beaten man's stay.
The Trump Administration's paradigm is that they will not stop to help anyone but themselves by hoarding taxpayer money as they destroy families and lives during their evil rampage through our society.
We flip this script back to what Jesus wants us to do by loving our neighbors as ourselves and showing concern for others. For clarification, our neighbors include every human being, no matter their race, creed, sexual orientation, gender, immigration status, political party, disability status, etc.
Trust in Jesus, these are rough times we are experiencing now, but we will come through them. The deeds of the Trump Administration will experience a divine flip in good time.
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https://www.newsweek.com/snap-map-benefits-losses-each-state-one-big-beautiful-bill-2079875