Such tripe.
Have you seen the trainloads of (fill in the blank) heading to the ovens?
This kind of rhetoric is pathetic and dishonest.
Do better.
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Yes, Benny, I’m concerned about that too - Trump talks about unconstitutionally staying in the presidency for a third term, and so far he’s “just” sending planeloads of immigrants (some of whom are legal residents) to El Salvador and refusing court orders to get them back. Now he’s talking about sending American citizens there, too: Donald Trump Says He Loves Idea of Sending Americans to El Salvador Prison - Newsweek. I expect, though, that Congress is concerned enough about keeping their jobs, and enough of them still care enough about democracy, that some of them would listen to us (and to the courts) if they receive hundreds of thousands of calls and emails protesting US citizens being “disappeared”, when or if it happens.
My biggest concern right now (besides the people starving who were previously fed by or through USAID) is the ongoing decimation of our governmental structures and services (including the CDC - when’s the next pandemic? And halting a lot of life-saving medical research) and the destruction of our relationships with our long time allies. It will take years to rebuild and reestablish those. I’m also concerned about what Trump is doing to the economy, and the likelihood of a deep recession, stagflation or possibly even a depression.
But we can rest on the Biblical truth of who God is: sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient, and our loving Father. He has the big picture even if we often can’t see it.
Regarding inflation, we can watch this site: As Trump announces new tariffs, here's a price tracker for cars, groceries and more supplies - CBS News
Please keep responses to the topic. Attempts to correct the participation of others is off topic
Thanx Fritz. I think understand now a little better what kind of comment is welcomed and what kind is unwelcome. Thanx for clearing that up.
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As an ex missionary who lived with Arab Christians, worked with them as colleagues and worshipped with them, I’m also very concerned with what’s happening to Palestinian Christians under the current US administration (and unfortunately also happened under numerous prior administrations, including Biden’s).
Biden at least sanctioned some of the most violent illegal settlers, but Trump lifted those sanctions.
Here is a current article about Palestinian Christians’ struggles: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/opinion/palestinian-christian-us-evangelicals-gaza.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20250410&instance_id=152286&nl=the-morning®i_id=80905772&segment_id=195714&user_id=5a46a36abfc70dff2deac54dc716f440
(Hopefully everyone can read it without hitting a paywall.)
For a first person account of what happened to a Palestinian Christian and his family in 1948 and after, I recommend https://a.co/d/cUWfh6h
For anyone interested, here is an article about Christian emigration from Palestine. It’s from back in 2008, but the situation for Christians in the West Bank has only gotten worse since then.
In Beit Sahour, one of the few towns in the Holy Land remaining primarily Christian, a recent survey found that 51.2 percent of respondents are considering emigration due to the difficult political conditions
These are descendants of Jesus’ first followers, whose ancestors paid extra taxes to the Muslim rulers from the 7th century AD onward rather than renouncing their faith and converting to Islam - and they’re being driven out of their ancestral homeland.
Another concern: the government categorizing anyone they want to arrest as a “terrorist” and therefore not having the right to due process, or snatching people who are legal residents and sending them without due process to places where the government claims they don’t have jurisdiction:
Pastor Martin Niemöller:
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
See also Martin Niemöller - Wikipedia
Coincidentally/ providentially, today I received a card telling me that I might be required to report for jury duty. The preliminary questionnaire says, in part,
Jury Duty: Right and Responsibility
The right of a trial by jury is the privilege of every person in the United States. This right is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution which provides that “the right of the trial by jury shall be secured to all and remain inviolate.”
Note that it says “every person” and “all”, not “all citizens”.
The President, on his own authority, recently deported people → supposedly ← affiliated with a Venezuelan gang to a foreign country => without due process <= Previously, he mentioned establishing concentration camps to imprison undesirables.
Your statement about seeing trainloads heading to the ovens is absurd. When will you remove your head from the sand and observe what is going on in this country? There is a convicted felon (34 counts!) in the Oval Office who is deporting people without trial to a foreign country.
Who is being pathetic and dishonest?
Get it back on topic please.
Neil
Actually, my “Greatest” fear with this, and any new administration is the effect it has of polarization on the citizens of the country. In my lifetime, it seems each “changing of the guard” tries to undo the work of the previous, which in turn hardens the opposition, and intensifies the division. This raises the stress level of the entire country and feeds the “lie mongers” of the media. I understand that ideological differences are normal, and to be expected, but partisanship has become so intense that conflicting parties are focusing on damaging the opposition, and have lost sight of their very reason for being there. More time, energy, and money is spent on creating compelling disinformation than is focused on simply telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I think there is wide agreement that the country could be better served if rational leaders worked as hard at cooperation in finding progressive ideas that actually benefit the country as they do at disparaging the other side of the isle. The bloody battle field leaves much work for the medic, and so the gory political arena calls for the peacemaking work of the Christian.
Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.
Matthew 5:9
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