Michael Daly , The Daily Beast; Trump’s Easter Message Isn’t Just Wrong—It’s Blasphemous
"On hearing that President Donald Trump was compared to Jesus Christ at a White House Easter luncheon, a New York priest beloved by everybody from firefighters to refugees, from construction workers to the homeless, had much the same reaction as any true Christian.
“Donald Trump is no more Jesus Christ than I am an astronaut on Pluto,” Father Brian Jordan said from Midtown Manhattan, where he serves as pastor of The Church of St. Francis of Assisi.
Jordan also voiced his opinion on the people who stood with Trump in the East Room on Wednesday, nodding in assent as televangelist Paula White-Cain, the head of the White House Department of Faith and the president’s so-called “spiritual adviser,” made the sacrilegious comparison.
“What we call them is the champions of clever sophistry; they say they’re Christians in word, but their actions do not prove it,” Jordan said. “They don’t care about the poor, immigrants, the disabled, or people with gender orientation issues or any of that. They’re insensitive to their needs.”
He went on, “Jesus would reach out and try to bring peace, not war, to Iran. And bring peace, not war, in Ukraine. And try to help out the hungry and malnourished in South Sudan and other parts of the world that have hunger issues.”
Jordan, 70, matches his words with deeds at his church on West 31st Street, where the entrance is flanked by the flags of the FDNY and NYPD. Back in 2001, Jordan anointed the dead at Ground Zero and held regular masses amid the toxic ruins during the long recovery effort. He founded the Workers’ Chapel at St. Francis, where once a year he dons a hard hat and says a memorial mass for construction workers who died on the job. He also established an Immigration Center and does all he can for those who fled poverty and oppression."
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