Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is at odds with the teachings of Jesus

This year, for the first time, I found it impossible to participate in the celebrations about the birth of our country. Instead, my heart felt full of grief when you watched something valuable. Something you love for a long time. Something you believe in your whole life.

What makes this experience even more difficult is that grief is more acute, it is just nothing. While watching the events of last week, the first thing to die was the first thing to die, together with the basic morality of our elected authorities, as the basic good of the country I always called the home. In the next, I had respect for the heartbreaking Evangelical belief that I grew up, which was suddenly unrecognizable in the persecution.

For three days, the congress room approved both rooms of both rooms President Trump’s great beautiful bill. Other than that, there is nothing good. The legislation will rob free lunch from millions of hungry children from millions of vulnerable Americans, millions of vulnerable American Americans, close to hundreds of care houses, indispensable to rural hospitals.

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However, there is a group of founders to benefit from these deductions: America’s billionaires.

All this was painful enough. However, while watching the members of the Congress to come together to pray for the transition of this bill, then cheered when he passed, wondered if I fell from a kind of glass and ended in a world that disrupts the values that my parents taught me and the lessons I learned in the Market School.

Because each of the provisions of the bill is contradictory to the open teachings of Jesus, along with the greater goal of enriching the rich. Indeed, the gap is so wide that it is attractive to think that the members of the congress never read the Bible.

Or maybe they believe in them and they just don’t believe them. A more disturbing possibility: they read them, and instead of explaining us in the Scriptures, they chose to promise to promise a different God. I’m not even talking about any name.

After the vote, I spent two days consumed by grief, anger with anger until I remembered the truth in the heart of my faith: death is part of the story of the gospel, but the key point never wins.

Every Easter, even when hope itself feels dead, we remember that what we love most can rise again. But not without getting some help, as it emerges.

The New Testament actually has two stories of resurrection. It is most famous for Jesus to rise on Easter morning. But a few episodes ago, his good friend Lazarus rises from death.

As I read these accounts again, I was impressed by how these inanimate men needed help in their rise. The help from friends (or maybe angels – what is the difference?), Who are willing to visit their graves and despite evidence, attempting to overthrow the heavy stones that seal two corpses in the darkness of death. Later, friends who continue to save the corpses that haven’t been for longer than their tight wrapped grave clothes.

These figures can be thought of as a kind of revolutionaries, despite everything, warriors who are willing to take an overwhelming enemy. The people who are currently in need of America.

Not uprising, not the resurrects. Steel -hearted loyalists who will not give up democracy despite the evidence. Sadık patriots who want to do the heavy, scattered work national resurrection: It is necessary to return to the oppressive forces that will seal our common hopes in the grave.

Yes, but in practice it looks like, you may wonder in a reasonable way. I’m not sure to be honest. None of us have never been in such a moment, the future of America has doubt.

Personally, I will start by calling out the representative of the self -defending Christian Chuck Edwards here to organize a town hall in Asheville. I want to explain the reason for supporting a measure that will harm patients, will receive food from hungry children and visit the difficulties in the elderly.

Because I’m sure I’m not the only person with questions.

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Steve Runholt is a minister appointed in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He presented two communities in the Asheville region and is currently a end -of -life coach, educator and caregiver.

This article was originally published in Asheville Citizen Times: Opinion: Trump’s great beautiful bill contradicts the teachings of Jesus