What Does Jesus Say
About How to Treat Others?
He tells us to treat others as we wish to be treated.
He asks us to love our neighbor.
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
He tells us, in the parable of the “good Samaritan,” that “neighbor” includes people very different than us.
“Whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them.”
“Which of these... was neighbor to him....? .... Go and do likewise.”
When we treat the most vulnerable with care and respect, it is as though we are caring for Jesus himself!
“Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to me.”
Jesus even tells us to treat our enemies with kindness.
“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who abuse you.”
He also asks us not to judge others, but rather to take responsibility for our own lives.
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.... Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? ”
How is President Trump treating Jesus?
(through his administration’s actions toward the most vulnerable among us?)
Click here to see how immigrants are being treated.
Click here to see how children are being treated.
How does President Trump treat perceived enemies?
“I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them.”
Perceived enemies have been fired, have been groundlessly attacked in the courts, and have had security clearances and protective security details revoked. Even those who work with his perceived enemies have been intimidated into cutting ties with them.
Click here to read about his treatment of lawyers and law firms who have supported his perceived enemies;
Click here again to read about his treatment of judges who he perceives as his enemies based on their rulings;
Is President Trump inciting judgment toward immigrants?
( through false accusations and inflammatory rhetoric?)
“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”
“They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”
Fact-Check: According to a consistent, overwhelming amount of criminology research, immigrants to the United States, both legal and undocumented, have committed less crime than native-born Americans going all the way back to the 1870s.
“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”