Therefore:
Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Be rooted in Christ!
Posted on 01/23/2025 5:37:35 PM PST by lightman
As we've been covering this week, Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde used the National Prayer Service on Tuesday to go after President Donald Trump and his positions on LGBTQ+ issues and immigration. The very next day, she appeared on ABC News' "The View," where the radical leftist co-hosts, who had even been in denial that Trump was even inaugurated once more, predictably fawned over her.
Once the applauding crowd quieted down, co-host Joy Behar, who is particularly anti-Trump, got right to it. "So let me ask you this. You seem to have more fearlessness than anyone in Congress right now, ma'am," Behar said, which let to another smattering of applause. "What made you decide to use that opportunity for this message, and did you have any apprehension about it?"
Budde absolutely should have had "apprehension," given that the event is not supposed to be about politics.
"My response--thank you, first of all, for allowing me to be with you today," Budde said with a slight chuckle, appearing to try to come off as humble. "My responsibility that morning, yesterday morning," she claimed during Wednesday's show, "was to reflect, to pray with the nation for unity and as I was pondering what are the foundations of unity, I, you know, wanted to emphasize respecting and honoring the dignity of every human being, um, basic honesty, and humility. And then I also realized that in, um, that unity requires a certain degree of mercy, mercy and compassion and understanding, and so knowing that, um, a lot of people, as I said, in our country are really scared. I want to take the opportunity, in the context of that service for unity to say we, um, we need to treat everyone with dignity, and we need to be merciful," Budde said. Behar could be heard murmuring in agreement.
As bad as Budde's lecture of a sermon against the president was, her remarks make it that much worse. She went for no such thing, though she is correct that the event should have been about unity. Further, if she wanted to focus on "the dignity of every human being," she would have talked about abortion and perhaps could have commended this new administration's pro-life position, in stark contrast to the rabidly pro-abortion now former Biden administration. Budde herself has managed to say a whole of nothing about the abortion issue, just as her church has cowardly refused to take too much of a position.
When it comes to these ideas of "unity" and "mercy," with the bishop having used her Tuesday sermon to demand that Trump had "mercy" for for illegal immigrants, it sounded like she was just pulling it out of nowhere at this point. Further, Budde didn't give Trump a sense of "understanding," especially as she went after him at an event where he could not exactly respond back in the moment through a sort of open dialogue.
Budde perhaps saved the most ridiculous claim for the end of the clip. "I was trying to counter the narrative that is so, um, so divisive and polarizing and, um, in which people, real people are being harmed," she claimed.
Although such an appearance was unsurprising and before the friendliest audience possible, the liberal activist/bishop's sermon was the definition of "so divisive and polarizing," and she only furthered that by going on such a program so vocally opposed to this newly inaugurated president and his administration.
Trump joked about the service being "not too exciting" when asked afterwards on Tuesday, though he took to Truth Social on Wednesday morning to demand an apology, one that doesn't seem likely given Budde's delusional thinking about how she think her sermon went.
Will punishment come for the National Cathedral, which hosted such an event, one that is supposed to be a nice, interfaith service dedicated to celebrating the incoming administration?
Many hope so. Jack Posobiec, for instance, has spoken out in favor of revoking the cathedral's tax status.
Therefore:
Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Be rooted in Christ!
Gonna write a book and be on the lefty talk shows. . . Instant fame!
The old joke in the UK was that the Church of England was “the Tory Party at prayer.”
Well, it’s been pretty obvious for a long time that Episcopal Church USA has “woke liberal idiots at prayer.” So why do GOP presidents show deference to this sect and their so-called “National Cathedral”? Next time, have the post-inaugural prayer service somewhere else, and vet the preachers.
Older joke:
“Why are Episcopalians so lousy at chess?”
—”Because they can’t tell their Queens from their Bishops”
I’m a hypocritical conservative who knows the liberal female cleric is out there with too much liberality.
I prefer to work on being more consistent with my conservative faith instead of going after the liberal.
My best understanding of Jesus is that he was critical of Pharisees and Sadducees which I compare to modern day Conservatives and Liberals in Christianity.
Leftists have gutted Conservative Christianity by infiltrating into it but Conservative Christians like me have sinned weakening Conservative Christianity’s ability to answer the Left.
The old saying here in the USA was that the Episcopal Church was the “Republican Party at prayer”. I was told that in my history class 50 years ago in high school.
But when Trump held a bible in front of a church THIS was her comment.......
“This evening, the President of the United States stood in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, lifted up a bible, and had pictures of himself taken. In so doing, he used a church building and the Holy Bible for partisan political purposes,”
When an evil spirit goes out, it seeks waterless places....
Bitchup Edgar’s 15 minutes are going to dissipate rapidly. She can go back to her closet.
keep in mind friends that there will be a day of reckoning where all will have chance to explain themselves. wouldn’t want to be in her shoes. I have my own ‘spainin’ to do.
“Do as I say, not as I do”.
The one time the View cares about religion.
Marko
This feminazi “bishop” does not deserve all the attention she is getting! Perhaps future church-related events in DC should be moved from the so-called “National Cathedral.”
There are two great Orthodox cathedrals in DC—one ROCOR, the other OCA.
The female “bishop” will soon pass out of the headlines, and perhaps “The View” will go off the air!
May their memory be forgotten!
Little bit weird to me.
Why bother with getting involved in a "woke church"?
I don't understand that. Why not celebrate a pagan holiday instead?
No worries about her being too self-effacing or shying away from the ego pampering spotlight. More like that was the sinister plan all along.
Saint Padre Pio
She didn’t seek fame or praise, but instead tried to do God’s will.
And the Episcopal Church lost a lot more members.
“God, be merciful to me, a sinner”.
The height of humility.
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