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The New York Times, Develin Barrett, Annie Correal, and William K. Rashbaum wrote that the Trump Administration denied it had violated a court order by transporting hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to a prison in El Salvador.
It took the writers five paragraphs before they identified that the men were members of one of the most notorious gangs on earth--- the Tren de Aragua gang, which is a designated Foreign Terrorist organization.
This is just the latest in a long history of the Left using dishonest language to shape a narrative.
The word "immigrant" was used to imply that all the illegals were simply folks looking for a better life.
Now, the religious Left has jumped into the ring to perform their tricks of deception using words from the Bible.
Be informed, not misled.
The term "gender-affirming care" is another euphemism for dangerous Frankenstein-like procedures on vulnerable persons.
"Gender-affirming care" sounds neutral, even compassionate, but it's a carefully crafted term meant to obscure the dangerous truth about these life-altering and sometimes irreversible procedures.
There are many other examples, but you get the point. We've talked about it before.
The manipulation of language is a deliberate strategy to mislead the public and push a dishonest agenda.
Now, the so-called Christian, or "religious" Left, has jumped in the ring to sell their twisted worldview by twisting the Scriptures.
We’re seeing a society become unhinged… again. Trump has quite a way with the radical Left. They absolutely hate him and DOGE and lose it by the hour. Now they’re burning Teslas (so much for climate care), raging in hotel lobbies and on college campuses to defend Hamas supporters, and cursing up a storm at rallies.
The Christian Post article says, "It's not just paid activists and politicians jumping into the resistance ring; it’s leftist 'faith leaders' too. Recently, nearly 100 'progressive' religious folks signed a letter demanding an unbiblical 'Return to Jesus.' The Lent letter demanded that hundreds of millions of dollars of wasted taxpayer dollars continue to flow to (leftist) NGOs."
I don’t recall the Bible ever advocating that government fund the Church. I don’t recall Jesus demanding the government take care of the poor and the needy and ensure justice for those being crushed.
That’s because it is the Church’s job. But a social justice worldview sees forced taxpayer funding of (leftist) faith-based organizations (despite massive taxpayer fraud and little to no accountability) as good stewardship.
It isn't.
This is what happens when social justice and critical race theory supplant Scripture. It’s all Marxism masquerading as Christian theology. According to the letter, stopping runaway spending of our hard-earned dollars is a form of “racial discrimination.”
Sadly, Leftist Christian leaders do the former as they strangely mesh Mark 11 and John 19 into a false narrative to politically attack the current administration: “As we anticipate this sacred season, and Holy Week to follow, let us recall the humble procession of our Lord on a donkey, confronting the imperial, autocratic power of the Roman Empire, with its domestic religious collaborators. In that conflict, the manipulated crowd cried out ‘We have no King but Caesar.’”
Journalist Ryan Bomberger writes,
The letter begins with the admonition: “Defending the vulnerable and opposing unjust decisions are faith-rooted commitments we must examine during Lent.” Who is more vulnerable than the unborn? “Faith communities can be lights shining in the darkness, and truth-tellers to power, based on our proximity and relationship to the most vulnerable children of God who we are especially called to love.”
No proximity is any closer than the relationship between a mother and her unborn child. But truth-telling about the violence and exploitation of abortion doesn’t matter to these so-called “faith leaders.” Nearly every one of the signers is radically pro-abortion.
Examples: Jim Wallis (Sojourners), Shane Claiborne, Bishop Claude Alexander (Evangelicals for Harris), Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson (Children’s Defense Fund), Dr. Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker (AME Church), and many more.
A closer look
Jim Wallis
One of the signers, Jim Wallis, is the founder of the pro-abortion “faith-based” magazine Sojourners. In an article he penned about abortion, he asks: “Is Common Ground on Abortion Possible?”
Let’s see. Is common ground possible on slavery? Sex trafficking? Domestic violence? Clearly, abortion resides in a different moral space for liberal Evangelicals. And, of course, the sole example he gives for advocating abortion’s legality is rape. Never mind that those cases constitute less than 1% of all our nation’s tragic million annual abortions. Are those lives worth less?
Rev. Adam Taylor
The President of Sojourners seems to have no regard for the most vulnerable human beings. In his response to the Dobbs ruling, Taylor opines: “Now is the time to rededicate ourselves to protecting the reproductive rights of all people. Everyone deserves equal access to the full range of reproductive healthcare services, including safe and legal abortion.”
Dr. Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker
A member of the Social Action Commission of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, a predominantly black denomination, Dr. Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker is also pro-abortion. The AME church repeatedly denounces “white supremacy” and racism while adamantly supporting it in the form of systemic abortion — the number one killer of black lives. When the Dobbs decision was handed down by the Supreme Court, Dr. Dupont-Walker signed an official (and bizarre) statement from the AME, declaring: “This decision puts millions of women’s lives in danger and threatens the civil rights of all people. We will not let the retrogressive politics of one extremist political party strip away the rights for which our foreparents died.” Nobody’s parents died so that someone’s child could be killed by abortion. “We must stand together against all forms of racism, xenophobia, and white supremacist misrepresentation of biblical faith.” Every one of those words is a misrepresentation.
Takeaway
I remember one late evening when I had just finished taping three of my five-weekday programs, which were technically produced by KOIN TV 6 News in Portland, Oregon, and syndicated to several top 25 TV markets, including Portland and Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver, Miami, etc., and the Family Channel.
The crew that taped my daily program also did KOIN's news programs.
Over the dozen years we did the program, the mostly non-Christian crew became very familiar with what I was saying instead of what the News folks were reporting.
On this particular night, the final program featured author Tony Compollo, a cohort of Jim Wallis.
A new member of our staff mistakenly booked him on my show, thinking he would be OK because his publisher was paying all his travel expenses. I did not see the rundown on the programs until I arrived at the KOIN studio that evening.
When I learned this had happened, I decided to tape a program with him and send him on his way, knowing I would never put it on the air. I knew what he would be saying.
He ranted and raved about all the social gospel issues, often cursing, as the religious Left continues to do today.
As the taping was completed, the mostly non-Christian crew cornered me on the set to tell me not to air that program. They also told me they had no idea there were Christians who believed in those kinds of things.
Secular Leftist worldviews always break down when you take a closer look.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Faithful. Be Bold. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.
