I do believe the right-wing conservative Christians would call Jesus “woke.” In a round about way, they are doing exactly that.

Two evangelicals have published books in the last year claiming that the Democrats are carrying empathy too far… and furthermore, that’s a sin.

I won’t name them here, because I don’t want to give them or their books free publicity. I’ll just share my thoughts on the subject.

Early in the second Trump Administration, Elon Musk stated, “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” It’s sad to see people who profess to be Christians jumping on that bandwagon.

Is that why all the right-wing conservative Christian “faith leaders” who gather in the Oval Office for photo ops with Trump remained silent when his Administration dismantled USAID?

There was great fanfare when Trump established a so-called Faith Office in the White House, but what has the office done except hold an expensive banquet for themselves and their ilk – all the big names in tele-evangelism and such?

Where was that Faith Office when USAID was destroyed?

Where was that Faith Office when medical research funding was slashed?

Where was that Faith Office when childhood cancer research was halted?

Where was that Faith Office when ICE agents arrested 20-year-old nursing student Allison Bustillo and held her for more than six months in a detention center 350 miles from her home and never gave her due process. Her “crime” was fleeing violence in Honduras as an eight-year-old child, coming to America, studying nursing at a university, and caring for her younger brother who has autism. With no grounds for deportation, the U.S. Justice Department just kept her in limbo in a detention center for months on end.

The silence from the so-called Christians in the White House has been deafening.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think there should be a right-wing Christian “Faith Office” in the White House or in any other government building. There’s a reason the Constitution of the United States of America does not establish a State Religion.

But if you establish a Faith Office in the White House and fund it and advertise it and brag about it, maybe it should put its money where its mouth is and speak up for common decency that most world religions claim to be rooted in.

If you think Jesus is in favor of taking food and medicine away from sick and starving children, I believe you need to start reading a different version of the Bible. None of the versions I have paint that picture of Jesus.

Janet