Tell truth from pulpit

I want to hear every minister and preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ tell their congregations all across America that the occupant of the White House is not who we are as Americans or Christians. We teach our children to tell the truth and never lie. We cannot tolerate a president who constantly lies to us. You can’t trust anything he tells you. Jesus said if you lie you are not of God, but of your father, the devil, the father of lies. I believe Trump is the repudiation of everything Jesus stands for.

How can you not speak honestly to your congregation about Christian values: truth, justice, mercy, empathy, compassion for the downtrodden, and love for one another? When did Christians stop speaking truth to power? The evangelicals, under your leadership, helped put this badly educated man into office. Now it is up to you to correct what has happened on your watch. Tell the truth! God is with you if you simply tell the truth.

Stop the cheerleading for the Republican Party. Life begins at conception, but less than half of all human embryos are born alive. Americans don’t raise taxes on the poor to give the rich tax cuts. Jesus told the rich man to go and sell all that you have and give to the poor. He said the worker is worth his hire, meaning a livable wage. Jesus wants everyone, especially children, to be properly fed, clothed, housed, educated, and cared for. He called the last judgment the judgment of nations where only those nations that care for all their people will inherit the kingdom of God. If you think that Jesus, the God of love, is going to send people to hell to burn forever, you don’t know Jesus. He paid for your sins and mine so that we can be forgiven, and forgive and love one another.

RUUD DuVALL Fayetteville