Dear Sarah,
I’ve been trying to reach you for a few days, but I know you’ve been busy lately with this whole White House Correspondents Dinner business—which I imagine you’re already pretty sick of talking about.
Honestly, I am too.
Please know this has nothing to do with that.
This is about you—and it’s about Jesus. (Well, sort of.)
You see, I’m a Christian and I’ve heard you claim that you’re a Christian too—and watching you work recently, it got me thinking:
How does she do it?
What I mean is, how do you reconcile your supposed faith in Jesus of Nazareth, with your current position as a mouthpiece for this morally malignant President?
As a professed Christian, how do you make peace with the reality that you regularly mount the largest bully pulpit in the nation—and you lie for a living on behalf of a serial predator?
How do you square your Christianity with the realization that you are the most visible and vocal surrogate for a man who is by nearly every measurement—fully devoid of Christlikeness?
Look, all Christians (myself included), feel some measure of fraudulence as we live this life while claiming we’re trying to perpetuate the character of Jesus in the world.
None of us can avoid the hypocrisy inherent in professing faith in a perfectly loving, compassionate, merciful Savior—while being profoundly flawed human beings. That tension and duplicity are ever-present.
But this isn’t that.
This is about actively working for the opposition.
This is about purposeful betrayal of your namesake.
This is about conspiring with the enemy.
I watch you every week as you repeatedly distort the truth,
as you attack journalists who come carrying facts.
as you vilify politicians who oppose your employer’s malfeasance,
as you categorically defend his every vile statement, every personal attack, every nonsensical Tweet, every baseless firing, every legislative assault.
I watch your face contort with the unmistakable tells of a person who doesn’t believe a word they’re saying; one who’s sold their soul and is now hopelessly trapped in a lie about a lie about a lie.
I wonder what Jesus-story you tell yourself, about the fact that every week you stand in front of a microphone and willingly perpetuate falsehoods that do great harm to millions of people?
That has to be rough—or maybe it isn’t.
Maybe it’s a breeze for you now.
Maybe you’ve convinced yourself it’s somehow all the Lord’s work.
Maybe you’ve been on this slippery slope of deception for so long that you actually believe the lies now too.
Or maybe your Jesus and my Jesus are just that different.
Maybe your Jesus is good with deporting immigrants.
Maybe your Jesus celebrates the poor staying poor.
Maybe your Jesus is fine with affairs with porn stars.
Maybe your Jesus is totally cool with supremacist Cabinet members.
Maybe your Jesus amens the banning and the wall-building.
Maybe your Jesus sanctions the fear of brown people.
Maybe your Jesus is pleased with sick people going broke trying to not die.
Maybe your Jesus applauds the racism and the bitterness and the cruelty.
Maybe your Jesus somehow blesses the lies you broker in on behalf of the monster you work for.
If that is your Jesus, Sarah—then know you are evangelizing brilliantly right now.
You are spreading the Gospel of that Jesus exponentially.
You are a powerful preacher of that Jesus to the watching world.
But for my money, that Jesus is the reason so many people want nothing to do with Christianity anymore.
It’s why the Church is hemorrhaging.
It’s why the pews are emptying.
It’s why people run from Christians.
I imagine you feel that thirty seconds of jokes from a comedian is terrible treatment; that you feel unfairly bullied, that feel that you didn’t deserve to be personally attacked.
I imagine you feel like an innocent victim in all this.
Given the countless hours you’ve spent lying to the world and claiming Jesus while you’ve done it—I think you got off easy.
So a man who has, apparently, lived his whole adult life pushing a myth and lies is going to try to chastise Sarah Sanders-Huckabee? Now that is funny.
I can't disagree with your logic here.
If you are not a Christian I suppose you dont have to pay this much attention.
Nope. Not a Christian. I never bought into the contradictory fables and the hypocrisy of it all (like this guy trying to call her out).
I believe Sarah Sanders is a Christian, therefore presumably he may be saying something that interests her.
He may, he may not. That's between them. It is pretty hypocritical of him, as I said, being somebody who has spent his life pushing myth and lies to chastise somebody else about lies.
If it is "between them" , who the heck are you to say he is a hypocrite?
The fact is Sanders adheres to the belief system (Christianity) that you call lies. So she surely does not see all this they way you do, yet you keep presuming that your take is the correct one for her.
Where did I say that? I'm merely pointing out the hypocrisy of the "Pastor". I've said it twice already.
No surprise at all that she's a Southern Baptist. The SBC is truly the core of Trump's bigoted base.
You're pointing it out using your own frame of reference. Since both Sarah Sanders and the pastor are Christians, your view of their belief system is irrelevant.
If he had said it privately to her, that would be pastoral, but posting it publicly is nothing more than grandstanding.
Not possible, he is not part of the inner circle.
Posting it publicly would be the only way he could get her to see it, and provide a teaching moment for his congregation, and other self-claimed "Christians", about their hypocrisy and un-Christian actions.
Cannot help but wonder if this alleged "pastor" runs a mega church somewhere hauling in big bucks from a naive flock?
Could be he's trying to get his mega church by trying to call out somebody in Washington. I think he's starting VERY low on the totem pole by going after Sarah Sanders-Huckabee.
Just as a note, this seed is not going to turn into a discussion about Christianity as a viable belief.
Sarah is NOT a Christian but an opportunist. She'll say and do anything for money. The only difference between Sarah and Stormy is that Stormy has principals.
Snap!
I really think it has far more to do with the fact that she's a Southern Baptist, by far the most extreme right wing sect in the country......and one of the few which can reconcile Christianity with white supremacy, Islamophobia, homophobia, anti-semitism and misogyny. The SBC is a perfect match for Trump.
So pretty much everything that Jesus hated.
If Jesus thought there were a lot of moneychangers to throw out of the temple, back in the day, just wait until he sees how many there are when he comes back! He'll have to kick ass every day for years.
The pastor wasted his time and ink. The reach of The Deceiver is long. His Shadow is longer. His hallmarks of fear, suspicion and avarice darken The White house.
There appears to be no pastor, (Skirting the CoC) Telo
The pastor's name is John Pavlovitz. Thusly, it appears not to be made up or a hate seed.
To defend hate.....is hate.
(CoC violation) Telo
To the moderator Telo.
Greg Jones posted a comment openly alleging I had invented this seed. Yet, you give me a coc violation for making fun of him. At the time he alleged I had invented the seed, there was a link in the OP directing one to the home page of the author.
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There appears to be no pastor, just another made up hate seed.
Then make sure that you flag a comment if you want it reviewed. With the limited people we have moderating at any given time things are bound to be missed.
We should be able to point out the deficiencies of comments made to us in words and not just through flagging.
It appear you have no idea what your talking about.
You are able to but what would have happened if right before you posted to me I had to leave for the day? Then you may have felt that I was ignoring you or being one sided in my moderation when the truth to the matter was I wasn't at a computer.
Flagging lets all of the moderators know that there is an issue that needs to be addressed and is the best way to bring attention to a matter is all I'm saying.
interesting... the religious telling the religious that your interpretation of the same religion is wrong...
I just wonder as millions and millions of people watch the lying that comes from Trump and his press secretary, how this woman justifies all the lies to her children once she no longer has the job.
Surely her children have seen or heard from others how much Trump lies and therefore will one day know, (if they don't right now), how much their own mother was complicit in lying by repeating Trump's lies.
The Fox spin machine and right wing spin machine know they are lies and have even reached a point where when an issue or a widely reported lie has been caught, Fox just pivots to silly stories or never report it at all. As if that alone would cover up the reality of those lies.
The GOP has been lying for years but now the masks are off and they openly lie, you can compare every policy and every comment over the last ten years only to find that they contradict past statements or when Freedom of Information Acts requests are actually granted, you can see the lies from the actual source.
History was not kind to Bush and Cheney and that entire mess, but the GOP has ignored their own failures in the failed wars, unpaid for wars, and economic collapse.
History will also be less kind to this administration with the worst appointees, the highest turnover rate in history, and the most lies that can be verified and also compared to a Presidential tweet record going back years. Every complicit person will suffer in their careers far more than the people who went silent and moved on after Bush. In fact many Republicans from the Bush administration have spoken out about the lies and lawless attitude that goes on daily.
HA! A 'pastor' writing an open letter and posts it on his 'fund me' page .. wonder how many pre orders he gets for his new book with each copy/paste seeding of this letter... prob counts on individuals to 'spread' the link to his web page around ......... makes him more money!
How can this letter be seeded as news?
Evangelicals seem to think that abortion is the only issue that really matters, and will go any extreme, and will tell or accept any number of lies in their quest to overturn RvW. I'm certain that they would be overwhelmingly in favor of having a different person leading their crusade than Donald Trump, but he is the vehicle that Jesus told them to hitch a ride with, so be it.