As an atheist, I’m always hesitant to criticize Christians. Who am I to set them straight when they don’t follow the teachings of Jesus? Nonetheless, I have read the Gospels. I know about the Sermon on the Mount. I get that when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, he was making fun of the powerful rulers on their powerful steeds.
And I also know that his skin was brown. If he were in Minneapolis today, ICE would pick him up in a flash.
Pope Leo, originally from Chicago, has it right when he defends immigrants and Ukraine and foreign aid. And I respect the three Roman Catholic leaders–Cardinal Tobin of Newark, Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, and Cardinal Blasé Cupich of Chicago who noted yesterday that this country’s “moral role in confronting evil around the world” is now slipping away.
I’d probably say that in the past we often gave “moral role” more lip service than having an actual moral policy, but at least we did that. Now we no longer bother. We have become the evil we once opposed.
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