Christian leaders denounce Trump actions, warn of 'crisis of faith'
Source: USA Today
Feb. 23, 2026, 9:52 p.m. ET
Hundreds of Christian leaders and scholars nationwide are denouncing President Donald Trump’s administration and urging more active resistance among the faithful to “the injustices and anti-democratic danger sweeping across the nation.”
“We are facing a cruel and oppressive government,” their collective statement begins. “In moments like this, silence is not neutrality — it is an active choice to permit harm.”
Titled “A Call to Christians in a Crisis of Faith and Democracy,” the letter says the nation is facing a profound moral, spiritual, and democratic emergency. Its release coincides with the start of the Christian season of Lent, a period of repentance, self-reflection and resistance to temptation.
“We thought it was important to tie into a season where many Christians go deeper into their faith,” said Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, a Christian social justice organization. “Part of what we’re critiquing is the way in which many White evangelical Christians succumb to an unconditional support of the administration, despite the fact that its actions are completely antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.”
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Link to LETTER - A Call to Christians in a Crisis of Faith and Democracy
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"... we believe the Holy Spirit is moving us to stand, speak, and act with greater courage to serve the most vulnerable and advance God's reign of justice and peace.
Therefore, we commit to:
•Protect and Stand With Vulnerable People: We will defend immigrants, refugees, people of color, and all who are in harm's way; resist cruel, unjust, and illegal policies and violent enforcement, and surround those under attack with pastoral care, solidarity, and prophetic public witness.
•Love Our Neighbors: In obedience to Jesus, we will love our neighbors without exception, especially those who are different from us, and reject the politics of fear, exclusion, and dehumanization. We will reject the language of “others” and “us and them,” and remember that Christ came "so that [we] may all be one" (John 17:21).
•Speak Truth to Power: We will confront lies and hatred towards immigrants, people of color, Jews, Muslims, and other religious minorities and political opponents; oppose the rollback of civil rights and racial justice protections; name racism as a sin from which we must repent and turn from; and resist the erasure of history and truth. Silence in this moment is complicity.
•Seek Peace: We commit to persistently building peace and pursuing justice, including by acting nonviolently to protect those threatened by violence and advocating for a foreign policy that favors diplomacy, respects national sovereignty, and supports democracy, human rights, humanitarian aid, and peacebuilding.
•Do Justice: Guided by the prophets [who the Holy Spirit spoke through], we will challenge unjust laws, defend poor and marginalized people, and persist in the work of uprooting racism and white Christian nationalism. We will commit to act justly, love kindness, and walk humbly with God (Isa. 10:1; Micah 6:8).
•Strengthen Democracy: Honoring the image of God–imago dei–in every person (Gen. 1:26) in a democracy means each person's vote is their voice. We will, therefore, defend the right to vote, resist voter suppression and intimidation, encourage greater participation in our democratic process, and equip clergy and lay leaders to support free and fair elections. We will defend constitutional rights and freedoms, including speech and assembly, due process, the rule of law, and religious liberty, and will uphold democratic norms and practices.
•Practice Hope: In a time of fear, intimidation, and despair, we will choose hope, which is more than optimism. It is trusting and believing that God is still at work. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”(Heb. 11:1).
Be careful what you say about Jesus Christians without reference to the Word of God.
or even you, know what the majority of Christians believe. This is a false equivalence. Something the RW commonly does with Democrats, I might add.
A lot of churches aren't churches. All humans are sinners. One doesn't get to judge religions by their sinners.
Christians don't get to judge at all.
Check out Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.
It can be found here, where Jesus is described the most accurately as I've ever read outside the Bible itself.
origin, study what He made -- from subatomic particles to cosmic forces.
There are laws governing the universes we only know some of. Why would a Creator of all things not love his creation. Love is God's other name.
When humans were created in the image and likeness of God, God gave them the free will to love him or not to.
When his Son was sent to do God's will -- though Jesus never once prayed with his disciples but instead constantly prayed alone -- he taught one single prayer to his disciples, called The Our Father (aka, The Lord's Prayer). He told them, "In your prayer do not rattle on like the pagans. They think they will win a hearing by the sheer multiplication of words. Do not imitate them.... This is how you are to pray:
Doing the will of the Creator is not a dictatorship. It is an act of free will to adhere to the Will of God. Here's one Baptist who believed in God's Will being done.
by its best. By that slip of illogic you can judge any race or nation by its worst. That's not how America sees race or gender or religion.
Spiritual humans use religion to become better humans. Fundamentalists use religion to pretend they're better than other humans.
Human hate has been around a lot longer than religion. At times we might fall prey to hate, but religion didn't cause hate -- hate wedged its voice into religion. Even the devil can quote Scripture.
The Right has turned a movement based on compassion and love into a mean, self-worshiping tax-free clique. The intolerance of right-wing christianity and christian nationalism is what's driving young people away from religion. It's not because youth are controlled by Satan -- but fundamentalists might be.
Fundamentalists got a 1st Amendment right to twist Bible Scripture to their liking in support of their hate.
Jesus Christians have a 1st Amendment right to call them out on that and take the Bible back from these hate-driven hypocrites.
Remember: if your church isn't telling you to love your enemies, but keeps telling you who your enemies are,
you're not really in a church -- and you're certainly not in Jesus's two thousand year old church.
As for this:
None of those countries are Christian countries.
Whereas... Christians are the majority population in approximately 120 countries and territories as of 2020.
Democratic status:
A significant portion of these Christian-majority nations are classified as democratic, including many in Europe, the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Official Christian States: Several nations with democratic governments also maintain official state religions, often Christianity. These include Armenia, Costa Rica, Denmark, England, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, Norway, Samoa, and Zambia.
Get a few things straight about Christianity. Read something.
We all pay for it.
They FAFFED, and we are all FOED.
I ask not just for accountability, but a lifetime dedication to undo the hideous and inhumane hypocrisy and outright blasphemy.
And to honor those murdered and to humbly serve whose lives were destroyed by the Trump-Epstein-Maxwell-Miller ring of greed, sex, blackmail, money-laundering, hate, death and destruction.
Murder, they incited.
Only a handful stood up to the nazi takeover.
Most didn't.
The crisis was over 10 years ago.
I bet all of them voted for that $atanic regime. 
