I don’t believe that religion and politics mix. But when does politics stop being politics and becomes a clear-cut case of right vs. wrong?

Case in point: My two best friends in grade school were Jewish kids whose families had suffered in the Holocaust. From an early age, I learned about concentration camps and gas chambers. Eventually, it occurred to me that the German Catholics and Lutherans of the early 1930s were the Nazis of the late 1930s and early 1940s. How could this happen? Where was the church?

Today’s warning signs couldn’t be clearer:
• Trump’s grown ICE into a private army of thugs used to intimidate and terrorize dissenters. Where is the church?
• Trump’s threatening peaceful neighbors with conquest and subjugation. Where is the church?
• The Trump administration has proclaimed that it’s no longer going to abide by the “niceties” of international law. “We’re a great power, we’re going to do as we please,” they say. Isn’t that an apothegm of the church of Satan, “Do as thou willst”? Where is the church of Christ?
• Trump is perverting justice and harvesting bribes at every opportunity. Where is the church?

And so on.

How much less like Christ does the Trump administration have to become before Christians — particularly Evangelical Christians, of who I am one — speak out? How much more moral credibility do we have to forfeit?

Keith Vallencourt
Gardiner