President Biden on Thursday responded to former President Trump’s Christmas post with a religious message to love your enemies. Trump’s unusual Christmas message, which he shared on Truth Soci…

President Biden on Thursday responded to former President Trump’s Christmas post with a religious message to love your enemies.

Trump’s unusual Christmas message, which he shared on Truth Social, called for various people he sees as “looking to destroy” the nation to “rot in Hell.”

Biden shared an article from The Hill about Trump’s post on X, formerly known as Twitter, and added a message to poke at the former president.

“There’s an expression they say in church sometimes: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you,” the president said.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    1992·
    6 months ago

    This is the sort of thing that will be totally lost on the “good Christians” who are voting Trump.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      771·
      6 months ago

      Right. The problem with ‘killing with kindness’ is that it doesn’t work if the people who support your opposition aren’t interested in kindness.

    • that guy@lemmy.world
      232·
      6 months ago

      Evangelicals want totalitarianism since condemning others to hell isn’t the marketing pitch they once believed it be

    • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      165·
      6 months ago

      Dude, this is lost on everyone.

      People don’t show anyone any respect at all any more. Common courtesy is just gone. ‘Doing the right thing’ is lost because it’s assumed you’re not getting something in return or your efforts are for naught. Everyone is self-absorbed and self-righteous. People preach about “empathy” but only practice it for those they feel sorry for.

      I’m not a religious person but treating people like I want to be treated is something I try to do every day. Treating people with kindness, putting out positive energy into the world, makes you a better person. I can’t comprehend the hate that so many people walk around with.

        • brightandshinyobject@lemmy.world
          9·
          6 months ago

          That isn’t the kindness for the facists, it’s for those the facists hurt. The kindness offered to facists is correction. Not all correction is gentle.

    • akilou@sh.itjust.works
      71·
      6 months ago

      It will be worse than lost on them, they’ll figure out a way to use it against him. Maybe it shows weakness or something. I’m sure they’ll figure out a way to turn it around. There are Subreddit full of people working on it.

    • tegs_terry@feddit.ukEnglish
      72·
      6 months ago

      There’s plenty of sentiment in the bible to the contrary, which is the useful thing about it. It’s so full of gubbins that you can throw it back in its own face no matter what.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        301·
        6 months ago

        The problem is that they even think Jesus is a liberal cuck now.

        It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — “turn the other cheek” — [and] to have someone come up after to say, “Where did you get those liberal talking points?” And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, “I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,” the response would not be, “I apologize.” The response would be, “Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak.” And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.

        https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity