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What is basis to back insurrectionist?

I read with utter dismay that the leader of the Oath Keepers (what a misnomer if there ever was one) was invited to speak in Elgin, and at a church, no less.

This was a man who was charged with seditious conspiracy for his part in the Jan. 6 attack on our democracy. How unpatriotic. He went to jail but was pardoned by our current president. Anyone who can’t seek through this man certainly deserves to be led down the garden path to tyranny. Yet here we are, all of us, having to endure secret police scooping up any and everyone in the streets of our towns without due process, poor folk dying from malnutrition and lack of health care, and people being randomly gunned down in schools and other public spaces.

It wasn’t the lack of love of country that bothered and perplexed me the most, however.

It was the complete lack of Christianity involved in so-called Christians that support this behavior that had me the most flummoxed. Didn’t any of them go to Sunday School? How is it possible that “good Christians” can ignore 95% of Christ’s inestimable teachings?

Where does it say in the New Testament that we should kick out all the strangers and let the poor suffer? Where does it say we should respond to violence with more violence? Christ says the opposite. Over and over. See in the Bible, the book of Matthew, chapters 25 and 26 for starters.

This was what I wondered, until I realized that these pretend Christians don’t really worship God through Christ, they idolize money. Apprehend this fact and it all becomes crystal clear.

Jennifer Shroder

Elgin