CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JUNE 4, 2020
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN CRITICIZED BY SOME FOR ORDERING POLICE TO CLEAR LAFAYETTE PARK SO HE COULD WALK OVER TO THE HISTORIC ST. JOHN’S CHURCH AND HOLD UP A BIBLE THE BUILDINg HAD BEEN SET ON FIRE BY SOME PROTESTORS.
ONE CRITIC SAID THE PRESIDENT SHOULD READ WHAT’S IN IT. SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI HAD A SIMILAR PHOTO OPPORTUNITY IN WHICH SHE WAS SEEN HOLDING UP A BIBLE AND CRITICIZING THE PRESIDENT.
PEOPLE WHO DON’T READ THE BIBLE OR BELIEVE ITS ENTIRE CONTENTS OFTEN SELECTIVELY QUOTE VERSES TO JUSTIFY THEIR POLITICAL POSITIONS. LIBERALS IGNORE WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE AND SEXUAL PRACTICES. CONSERVATIVES HAVE BEEN GUILTY IN THE PAST OF USING IT TO PROMOTE RACISM, SLAVERY AND TODAY IGNORING THE POOR AND NEEDY AND VISITING THOSE IN PRISON AS JESUS INSTRUCTED. NOT EVERYONE, OF COURSE, BUT QUITE A FEW.
THE MOST PROFOUND VERSE WAS SPOKEN BY JESUS WHO SAID, “MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD.” YESTERDAY’S BIBLE GATEWAY VERSE WAS PROVERBS 15:1: “A SOFT ANSWER TURNS AWAY WRATH.” PONDER THAT ONE IN LIGHT OF THE RIOTING AND YELLING IN OUR STREETS. I’M CAL THOMAS.
