President Biden on Thursday responded to former President Trumpā€™s Christmas post with a religious message to love your enemies.

Trumpā€™s unusual Christmas message, which he shared on Truth Social, called for various people he sees as ā€œlooking to destroyā€ the nation to ā€œrot in Hell.ā€

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

ā€œThereā€™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,ā€ the president said.

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    9 months ago

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

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      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 ā€” ā€œturn the other cheekā€ ā€” [and] to have someone come up after to say, ā€œWhere did you get those liberal talking points?ā€ And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, ā€œIā€™m literally quoting Jesus Christ,ā€ the response would not be, ā€œI apologize.ā€ The response would be, ā€œYes, but that doesnā€™t work anymore. Thatā€™s weak.ā€ And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then weā€™re in a crisis.

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