US holy ground?

Regarding “Donald Trump – holy ground” (September 3), a piece of Evangelical propaganda by Mike Evans, I wonder why The Jerusalem Post felt constrained to publish it.

Evans writes regularly in the Post and although I seldom agree with him, his pieces are usually within the Post’s policy of printing a wide variety of opinions. This piece was different. It was simply Evangelical propaganda. If Evans wants to publicize evangelism, let him place it as an ad and pay for it. The Post, as a Jewish publication, has no business running Christian Evangelical promotional propaganda in its columns.

Evans writes how the White House has become “holy ground” because of the way it welcomes Evangelicals and because of President Donald Trump, who “has given an Evangelical group a private tour of the residence.” Not only that, Trump says “Merry Christmas,” has come to “the Savior” and is saving America from becoming Sodom. “Holy ground?” More likely impure ground.

I don’t know about Evans’s god, but my God has certainly not appointed Donald Trump to do anything, much less to save America and Israel. If we want America to come back to itself, it will have to rid itself of Trump and not fall under the influence of Evangelicals whose vision of the world and blueprint for American society is the antithesis of everything Judaism teaches.

I am uncomfortable about the way in which Evangelicals, led by Evans, seem to be taking over Israel and especially Jerusalem. Their huge signs lauding Trump as if he were the new savior are appalling, but if they pay for them, they have the right to post them. It should be clear, however, that they are his views and those of his group, not those of the government or the people of Israel. This is a Jewish State, not an arm of evangelical Christianity; we should not forget that. RABBI REUVEN HAMMER

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