Monday, February 10, 2025

Thoughts And Prayers

Vice President of government relations at the National Association of Evangelicals, Galen Carey, warned the president’s “indiscriminate stop-work orders issued with little or no advanced notice have created chaos and confusion on the ground.” 
“This is damaging and wasteful," Carey said. "Some of our members and partners are experiencing crippling cashflow crises, necessitating mass layoffs and abrupt termination of services with no time for responsible transitions." 
The faith leader noted while “there are aspects of our foreign aid programs that should be ended and others that could be reformed for greater effectiveness ... this review and reform can be achieved without the wholesale disruption of the many programs that are working well and saving lives." 
"We affirm the goal of eliminating wasteful spending throughout government but caution against hastily pursued measures that will prove costly,” Carey said, as Business Insider reports. “The abrupt closure of many effective aid programs will mean that some of the money already spent will have been wasted. Commodities will be lost and food will rot, medicines expire. Other supplies may be stolen or misappropriated because the staff and the partners are not allowed to receive them.” 
Carey, urged Trump “to rethink the assumption that effective international assistance does not benefit our national security, peace and prosperity.”
It’s all fun and games until somebody gets punched in the mouth.
Well, what's interesting is it's almost nonexistent," said Rausenbush. "I mean, there have been Christians in federal government, there have been great programs that have been run with Christian assistance in USAID. This is not a problem, but the president is actually — what he's trying to do is create a problem, which is part of a play for power. And so this is, what we've actually seen is an anti-Christian bias coming out of the White House. So we actually need protection from the White House at this point." 
"No one knows that better than people like [Bishop] Mariann Budde, who have been attacked, bullied by the president, receiving death threats, just for preaching from her pulpit that he might give mercy," he added. "We've seen the Catholic bishops being attacked by J.D. Vance for doing their work, being accused of going for the bottom line. This is gross, grotesque."   
One of the biggest attacks, he continued, is tech billionaire Elon Musk's attacks on Lutheran organizations that work on refugee resettlement. 
"They help the elderly, they help people across this country, doing great work. And Elon Musk comes out and says, oh, these people are money laundering," said Rausenbush. "These are all attacks directly on Christian communities. The Quakers have experienced it, with ICE being now allowed to invade congregations one after another. Christian communities under attack from this Trump-Vance-Musk administration. And it's very ironic that they're worried about anti-Christian bias, given that we need to be protected from this White House."
Tbf, being anti-Quaker is an American tradition, from hanging us in Boston Common to Feds infiltrating our peace and justice orgs. ;-p
Yeah, it is. “Weird” practices are inherently suspect and non-Xian. Which is why all right-thinking Protestants don’t trust Catholics. 😈
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  1. ntodd11:16 AM

    Tbf, being anti-Quaker is an American tradition, from hanging us in Boston Common to Feds infiltrating our peace and justice orgs. ;-p

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