I’m at the moment working on another article about
the suffering church looking back to the French-Indian wars and the following Revolutionary
war to show the suffering of some Christian native Americans. But for a short time,
I feel the need to stop and do some explanations and even rant about why I
am doing what I am doing.
I have been thinking about this for a while and then I
saw a small article posted by someone who used to be a friend and who is an
expert on homosexuality from a biblical point of view and someone who I often defended
on my blog. But I can’t defend the constant putdown of so many Christians who
disagree with Trump and his administration. The insistence, in his posting,
that the No King protests were funded by billionaire’s millions and that people
were flown in to make crowds etc., is to use a good old-fashioned word, stupid.
It was written by Ken
Blackwell without any proof and posted by
him. Then copied by my friend. But anyway, it caused me to write what I am
going to write.
I have written before about the false prophet Julie
Green and her insistence that many who disagree with Trump are enemies who well
in the end be in jail or be hung, even picking on Chief
Supreme Court Justice Roberts, insisting he will be jailed. She gets by
with this by seemingly having God speak through her in prophecy, even calling
Trump God’s beloved David. Green is an influencer and a friend with Eric Trump
Jr. one of the President’s sons. She is fairly
well known by many who are involved in the Trump administration. None have ever,
at least in writing to the public, denounced her insistence on the hurt to
those who disagree with what is happening in our government.
At the moment I have and am terribly concerned about
the actions of ICE and how they are intimidating American citizens and even
refugees who have made a life in America. I am appalled at how the churches
that minister to Mexican and other diverse groups are being treated. I am
appalled by how many, who are followers of Jesus are ignoring that treatment. But I am concerned for the church in the future,
for their ability to withstand what is happening to our nation and our
freedoms. If people like Julie Green and those who follow them have neither compassion
for those, they consider enemies—they believe that those who disagree with Trump are enemies and must be jailed or even killed—where will the Church stand—will
they be faithful? How will they be faithful?
That is why I am exploring the various ages and
groups of Christians who have faced suffering.
To bring it back to the posting about the NO Kings, I
believe we must look to all Scripture that confronts worldly sin, both those
against life, against purity, those fostering lies, those slandering, those
hurting the refugees, the poor and the needy. We must weep and advocate against
the death of unborn babies, but also against the harm happening to the refugees.
We must weep and advocate against the mutilated children because of their
identity needs, but also for those who are being beaten, kidnapped and deported
by ICE. How can we honor Christ when we ignore children being awakened in the
middle of the night having their hands tied by masked men while they are
separated from their parents?
My desire is to know how we can give comfort to the Church amid what is
happening now and may happen in the future? We need the whole Scripture poured
into our hearts and lives. We need to encourage each other with love. We need
to let go of idolatry and cling to Jesus.
9 comments:
Hey Viola,
Did you delete a post of mine, or did I fail to hit send?
Jodie Gallo
Los Angeles, CA
I didn't delete your post.
I was basically suggesting a book by Gareth Gore called "Opus". It seems to be validating some of my thoughts. I'd be interested in your take.
As far as I can tell the people organizing the "no kings" protest were funded by billionaires' nonprofit foundations, which means that billionaires did in fact fund the protests via their organizations funneling money into the partner organizations that actually implemented the protests. Here is a link to the list of partner organizations that would have used the money to fund the protests: https://www.nokings.org/partners
Here is a link to a twitter post that outlines how those partner organizations received huge amounts of funding from the billionaire's nonprofit foundations: https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1980312532519907398/photo/1
So far I have not found a Snopes or Factcheck article that disproves this financial relationship. The argument against the claim is simply that billionaires themselves did not directly fund the protests. But that is pure semantics. Billionaires choose where their money goes via their nonprofit foundations, and the organizations they chose to fund were in this case running the "no kings" protest.
It is in fact a rich and dark irony that the money of billionaires (hundreds of millions of dollars in fact) went to fund "no kings" protests against a president who was democratically elected by middle and lower income people.
Maybe not worth throwing a friendship away over something so "stupid"?
All the people I know who participated in the No Kings protests did so for free. They bought and brought their own flags, made their own posters, paid for their own transportation. Millions of people were there volunteering their time and energy, it would seem. The only people in attendance that were paid were the on duty police. So I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "funded".
Jodie Gallo
Los Angeles, CA
You have offered no proof at all that billionaires funded the no kings protest. Nor have you proved that "certain foundations were running the protest. Some may have been but on the whole it was local communities choosing to be a part and as Jodie stated most people were making there own signs.
Read to the end: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/billionaires-support-groups-behind-no-kings-but-they-didnt-spend-300m-to-fund-protests/ar-AA1P8XF2?ocid=BingNewsSerp
I think you both missed the point completely. Protests with "millions" participating are formed via organizations and groups that set dates and times and make the necessary contacts with government offices to make the protests legal. That is how the March For Life protests are set up. That is how the larger parts of the No Kings protests were set up. And in the case of the No Kings deal, the organizations that set up the protests, including and especially "Indivisible", which headed up the protests according to the MSN article that you linked to above, function off of millions of dollars of grant money from billionaires.
The article purports that because the money was not given to the organizations specifically to fund a No Kings protest, that the claim that billionaires funded the protests is false. But that is a logically incorrect. They would have to prove that the funds given to those organizations by said billionaires were NOT used to the fund the protests. Instead they looked at the timeline that the hundreds of millions in grants were given within and claimed that that was somehow proof that billionaires did not fund the protests. That is incredibly illogical.
All of this is frankly emberassing. Trump is pro-Israel, not antisemitic, not by any appearance or action racist, and has done literally nothing to merit comparison to a king, let alone to Hitler (a favorite comparison from Boomers and the mainstream media and the left). Meanwhile, there is actual antisemitism and racism happening on the extremes of the left (anti-white, anti-biological women, and anti-Jewish hatred and policy in action in our higher institutions and until recently in our government) and on the far right (anti-Black, anti-Jewish, anti-biological women) along with outright celebration of Hitler and Nazism from factions of both left and right (pro-Palestinians and anti-Israel talking heads on the left and right, who are both doing dumb things like quoting from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and claiming the Holocaust was fabricated in part or full).
Meanwhile, a bunch of Boomers are out there protesting Trump and basically blind to the actual ugliness that is about to go down. They don't realize that the people they are calling "Nazis" are in fact being opposed by by the far right and left as "Zionists" at the same time. Their complete ignorance about what is actually happening around them, while staying laser-focused on their personal animus for Trump, renders them incapable of realizing the actual cultural dangers and their sources.
Being so inordinately hateful and fearful of Trump also keeps them from being able to have any kind of meaningful impact on the critique of Trump's immigration policies. Instead they are just yelling into the wind like the more far right voices who demand the deportation of even legal immigrants. Both sides become useless because they ignore reality and instead obsess over one person, Trump, as if he actually were a "king".
That article basically said what I said, but came to a contradictory conclusion through fallacy. The burden is on them to disprove that the hundreds of millions of dollars donated to the organizations that ran the No Kings protests, like "Indivisible", were not used to fund those specific protests. It is completely false, logically, to say that because the money was given before Trump was reelected it was not used for the protests in any form or way.
Billionaires gave hundreds of millions to organizations,
those organizations did the ground work and organizational work to put on the No Kings protests--the question which would invalidate the claim that the protests were funded by billionaires, which MSN fails to answer, is not whether the money was given before Trump was reelected, but whether any of that funding was used to run the protests.
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