To sing praise songs in a church service while trafficking in the bearing of false witness against people who fled for their life, who seek to rebuild a life for their children after crushing poverty and persecution, is more than just cognitive dissonance. It's modeling the devil himself, whom Jesus called "the father of lies" (Jn 8:44). That's especially true when the lies harm another person. "Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer," the apostle John wrote, "and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him" (1 Jn 3:15).

The cruelty to Haitian immigrants - and with it, the implicit incitement of potential violence - is not [a] debatable issue. And Christians do not need to struggle to figure out what Jesus would have us do here. If we see children sheltering at home because they fear violence, we know that's wrong. And when we see that this fear comes from the incitement of hatred against those children because of where their parents came from, surely we can smell the brimstone.

I wonder how many prayers will be offered up for the suffering citizens of Springfield having to deal with the invasion of an immigrant hoard. Prayers asking for the Lord to remove the feral interlopers so that the city's 'real' citizens can get back to their lives before they came.

And I equally wonder how many prayers across America will be offered up for the well-being of the immigrant community being falsely accused and targeted for violence? Will they offer up prayers for the immigrant children - now being evacuated from their schools due to repeated bomb threats, and missing school days because of them? Will they pray for protection of the entire city - now under siege by the lies told and repeated by self-proclaimed Christian men, both running to serve in this nation's highest office?

It truly would be interesting to know how this dichotomy of viewpoints actually breaks down. Unfortunately, I have a very strong suspicion we already know which direction the outcome will tip. And it isn't likely to be on the side both Jesus and his teachings are.

I love 2-3 and 4, and frankly I don't think that it would be controversial if Kamala used biblical quotes like the above, prefaced by her saying that there are very universal "virtues" and moral guidance articulated in those words - regardless of one's personal religious preference or having none at all - clearly and unambiguously labeling the anti-Christ-like actions, words, and behaviors coming from Trump and Vance are immoral and malevolently evil.

Democrats should hold up a mirror to Christian nationalists and show America that they aren't Christian in any sense of the word. In reality they're espousing nothing but unabashed fear and hatred towards some of God's less fortunate children, targeting them for abuse instead of opening one's arms to welcome the aggrieved strangers and offering them helping hands as others have done for us, instead of nothing but balled fists and unrelenting scorn simply for trying to provide better for themselves and their families coming out of a failed nation in disrepair, run by exploiters and thugs.