Rev. William Barber, a recent “genius grant” winner from North Carolina, explained Saturday evening at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, sums up the pseudo-Christianity Trump and those he endorses for political office have come to embrace as the word of God. Referencing Bible verses in Luke, Barber said Jesus told us what his political agenda was. Many sitting in the pews were wearing Stacey Abrams pins and other campaign gear supporting Democratic candidates. Abrams is vying to become the first black woman in U.S. history to become governor of a state.
“You don’t have to ask Brian Kemp,” said Barber, to responses of “Hm-mm” and “Say it,” about Abrams’ Republican opponent. “You don’t even have to ask Stacey (Abrams) what Jesus’s political agenda was. When Jesus began his gospel, he was talking about the poor, the brokenhearted, the blind, the sick and the unacceptable.”
Any politician who claims to live by the word of God should be able to answer any of these questions in the affirmative, Barber explained.
“When I was hungry, did you feed me? When I was naked, did you clothe me? When I was sick, did you care for me? And when I was undocumented, when I was a stranger and I was a foreigner, did you welcome me in?”
While Barber has been reminding voters of a higher calling, above any particular candidate, and that Jesus never declared a political party, this year’s midterms have featured white evangelicals who claim Trump is the protectorate of Christianity.
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