Forget Anti-Christian Bias. The Trump Administration Has Anti-Jesus Bias

As Christianity’s Holy Week begins marking the final week of Jesus’ life as presented in the Bible, the State Department under Marco Rubio recently instructed all of its employees to report coworkers for ”anti-Christian bias.”

The directive supports an Executive Order signed by Donald Trump in February, proposing to root out Federal employees who oppose Christianity—and it is irony of Biblical proportions.

There is no anti-Christian bias in American Government. There is anti-Jesus bias in MAGA Christianity.

The truth is, the Jesus of the Gospels wouldn't have stood a chance under this Administration.

When he told MAGA Americans to love their neighbor as themselves, they would have screamed at him to go back where he came from and spit anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic epithets from behind anonymous Nazi avatars, raising defiant middle fingers in his face.

When Jesus pleaded with them to welcome the stranger and embrace the outcast and receive the refugee, Megyn Kelly, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity would have devoted their programming to declaring him a subversive, radical Leftist national threat and stoking their viewers into an anti-Jesus frenzy.

When he said that people of faith were to show compassion to the least among us, as a tangible measure of their love for God—Franklin Graham and Paula White would scurry to Fox News to lament his subversive and dangerous plot against American family values, urging their flocks to shut him down and cut all ties of support with him.

When Jesus healed the sick, fed the hungry, cared for the suffering, welcomed the stranger, and implored his listeners to do the same, our current president would have issued a rambling, vile press release assassinating his character, questioning his patriotism, and inciting violence against him.

When he spoke of the last being first, of the sacredness of humility and the virtues of generosity; when he shunned violence, denounced power, and cautioned against wealth—the MAGA faithful would have protested, boycotted, and canceled him.

If Jesus were here in America right now, speaking the words attributed to him in the Gospels, performing the acts of kindness described there, and preaching the same religion of good news for the poor and the marginalized—Trump and his followers would never give him a moment's peace.

And when all else failed to silence him, some of the most damaged and unstable among them would take to the streets with AR-15s and do what their Executive Orders, government directives, talk show monologues, press conferences, and ad campaigns could not do: they would permanently silence Jesus—because his empathy and love and generosity simply would not be tolerated in the "great nation" they are building. And no Republican politician would utter a word about it.

That is the sickening truth we need to reckon with regarding a healing, helping, caregiving, loving Jesus: those who will most loudly crusade for the religion that bears his name, those who most openly broadcast their religion and engage in the most performative acts of piety, would be the greatest threat to him.

So, they can talk about “anti-Christian bias" all they want, but their actions and words and their relentless rejection of his teachings and of the kind of people he spent his life embracing, remind us that they are Jesus' fiercest adversaries.

MAGAs reject love.
They ridicule empathy.
They despise diversity.
They perpetuate cruelty.

They'd have hated Jesus.
They’d have canceled him.
They’d have crucified him.