“As a Christian, I don't think you can be both MAGA and Christian.”

A top comment on a recent viral Instagram video reads, ”As a Christian, I don’t think you can be both MAGA and Christian.“

It's always nice to see validation of something we've been saying for 16 years. Before MAGA it was The "Christian" Right. Since 2009 we've said the ideology behind The "Christian" Right is 100% opposite of the teachings of Jesus. Trolls have always come back with, "but ... but abortion and gay marriage!" It's as if those two biblically obscure topics excuse them from ignoring everything Jesus actually taught. Matthew 25: 31-46 is a perfect  example on this subject and we've pointed it out hundreds of times over the years. 

(Note: The left–right political spectrum is a system of classifying political positions, ideologies and parties. Left / Right terminology in Matthew does not correlate to the modern classifications, which originated during the French Revolution based on the seating in the French National Assembly.)

A viral video has done the same as of late and it's good to see. The more this issue is exposed the better. A recent Huffington Post article covers the situation well.

This Viral Video Has People Talking About Christianity Versus 'MAGA Christianity'

Jen Hamilton went through the specifics in her video. She went through Matthew 25 while comparing the MAGA policies that directly oppose Jesus’ teachings in a very obvious way.

“I was hungry and you fed me,” she reads in the clip, as a headline about a Trump administration spending bill that proposes slashing federal funding to the SNAP food program by nearly $300 billion pops up.

“I was in prison and you visited me,” she says, as a headline about migrants who entered the country legally and were still deported to El Salvador prisons appears on the screen.

“I was sick and you cared for me,” she says, as another story, this one about potential cuts to Medicaid, flashes by.

Jen Hamilton points out that Matthew 25 says those who serve people in need ― the hungry, the prisoner, the stranger ― will enter his Kingdom, while those who overlook the downtrodden will receive judgment: “When you refused to help the least of these, you were refusing to help me,” Jesus tells the latter.

When MAGA Christians, and before them members of The "Christian" Right, are confronted with these things they resort to the following reply, "Those instructions are for individuals, not governments." That's a cop-out and a lie. The instructions Jesus gives in Matthew 25 are universal laws. They apply to individuals, governments (kings), and businesses (merchants). There are many, many instances in scripture where God became very upset with kings and masters who abused their subjects or workers, depriving them of basic needs and rights. Trying to say it only applies to individuals is silly and absurd.

"Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen." (Ezekiel 16:49-50)

What's more it's the height of hypocrisy given their obsession with using the government to force their particular views on others. We often say if you don't like abortion, don't have one. If you don't like gay marriage, don't get gay married.

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