Welcome to Brother Andy's Church of Biblical
Sanity. I'm Brother Andy, Andy Johnson. It's
happened again. Someone else got shot by ICE
agents today. So, I have nothing but respect
for those Christians as well as Muslims and Buddhists
and Jews and humanists, agnostics and atheists
who are sincere in their beliefs. and who do
their best to live their values. This would include
many of my friends and my relatives. And in my
experience, most of the Christians I've met are
good people, are kind people who do their best
to do the right thing every day. This has been
my experience. And some of my friends and family
are really exceptional Christian people who go
about their lives saying nothing while screaming
the love of Jesus out of every pore. And if you
believe that Jesus is the Son of God and died
for our sins, that's wonderful. I will do my
best to respect that. Your beliefs and your values
are yours. They are precious to you as mine are
to me. And I have no issue with you. I have issue,
however, with the imitation Christians whose
religion is nothing more than performance art,
wallowing in narcissism and egocentricity. They
equate patriotism with a perverted version of
religion and morality. They proudly stand for
the flag and kneel for the cross and justify
killing and stealing and lying and beating and
suppression. 1 Corinthians 1 .13, if I speak
in the tongues of men and of angels, but have
not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging
cymbal. And I'm hearing a lot of resounding and
clanging coming from a whole lot of people who
claim to be Bible -believing Christians. And
I'm guessing it's hard to hear the word of the
Lord above all the gong and cymbal noise. So
that's where I started. Brother Andy's Church
of Biblical Sanity. I also started it in response
to recent events. Renee Goode was murdered by
ICE agents 60 miles up the road in Minneapolis,
and today another guy was murdered. ICE agents
are in our communities, including here in Mankato,
Minnesota, and they're displaying a level of
cruelty bullying, and injustice that can only
be described as evil. And I have a hard time
believing that the Jesus of the Bible is okay
with this. And I have a hard time believing that
St. Paul or any of the writers of the 21 Epistles
would not speak out against this if they were
writing their letters today. The epistles, by
the way, are letters written to real people from
Paul, James, Peter, John, and Jude. So, what
would Paul say if he were writing a letter to
the Americans today? From the Book of Americans,
chapter 12, verses 13 to 17, I quote, have you
people gone insane? Are you nuts? Are you not
reading the Bible? Have you lost your sense of
decency and shame? Stop cherry -picking Bible
verses to justify cruelty and indifference. By
your justification, you're beating, abusing,
stealing, lying, and killing by proxy." Paul's
letter to the Americans. Now, we are our country,
and our country is us. And we've put on Gollum's
ring, and our country is changing. Our precious,
we say. Our wealth and abundance are ours, we
say. This is our country, we say. You can't have
it, it's ours. God loves us, we say. And while
much of the world starves, we fill our grain
bins with grain, and we fill our bellies with
double shot, non -fat, organic, no -foam, lacto
-expresso, latte -expresso. A greedy narcissistic
president is turning us into a greedy narcissistic
country. We take whatever we want by whatever
means we want because we're bigger, stronger,
more powerful, and wealthier. And we turn our
backs on the children, on sons and daughters,
brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers who
are hungry, poor, sick, imprisoned, and in pain.
And we close our eyes to the cruelty so that
we can say our prayers to Jesus and thank God
for America. We ask God to bless America and
we say to hell with everyone else. And as you
do this to the least of these among you, said
Jesus, you do it unto me. You do it unto me.
So, Bible -believing Christians, let's turn to
our Bible verse of the day. From Proverbs 6,
16 to 19, I quote, there are six things the Lord
hates, seven that are detestable to Him. Number
one, haughty eyes. Number two, a lying tongue.
Number three, hands that shed innocent blood.
Number four, a heart that devises wicked schemes.
Number five, feet that are quick to rush into
evil. Number six, a false witness who pours out
lies. And number seven, a man who stirs up dissension
among brothers. So let's take a look at these
biblical words, shall we? Number one, haughty
eyes. Haughty means to be arrogant. and condescending
to those you feel are your inferiors. You see
yourself as superior to others. And this is the
epitome of Donald Trump. This is the epitome
of the America First movement. God bless America,
you say, and to hell with everyone else because
we're Americans. USA, number two, a lying tongue.
Donald Trump lies all the time. And that, my
friends, is an empirical fact. And empirical
means it can be verified by observation or experience.
In fact, we can measure this empirical fact.
In 2021, the Washington Post wrote that Trump
made false or misleading claims. 30 ,573 times
over his first four years as president. Now I
know the reflexive action of some is to say,
fake news, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's
just a reflex. You can't help yourself. Everything
that doesn't support your worldview is fake news.
But let's consider, for the sake of argument,
that the Washington Post exaggerated. For the
sake of argument, let's say that Donald Trump
only did a tenth of that. Let's say for the sake
of argument, he made only 3 ,000 false or misleading
claims in his first four years. Are you still
okay with that? Number three, shed innocent blood.
People have been killed. Rene Good was killed,
as others have been. A guy was killed in Minneapolis
again today, up in Blaine. I forget his name.
These are just the ones we know of, by the way.
Innocent people in Gaza have been killed. Innocent
people were killed in Venezuela. Civilians. How
many more are being killed? Now here again is
another reflexive response. Oh, yeah, you say
why thousands of innocent babies are killed by
abortions every year. That's the reflex I often
get from people. And here's the thing. If you
believe abortions are evil, more evil does not
justify that. And your excuses, Obama did this
and Biden did that. They're not president. Trump
is president. And you are supporting this man
despite what your Christian Bible says. You're
not reading it. You're not understanding the
major themes. Number four. Wicked schemes. Wicked
is a deliberate intent to do wrong, to cause
harm. And a scheme is a plan, usually a secretive
plan. Using the Department of Justice for revenge
and retribution, sending these ICE agents in,
sending in our government's military into states
and cities only with Democratic governors and
mayors. to abuse, intimidate, terrify and suppress.
These are wicked schemes. They're the results
of wicked schemes. These are bad and evil things.
Redistricting states and suppressing votes to
try to stay in power. This is a wicked thing.
It's called cheating and it's not okay. The ends
don't justify the means here. Number five, rush
into evil. Evil is the opposite of love as light
is the opposite of darkness. Evil is using power
to meet one's needs at the expense of other.
And it has become a reflexive action by our government.
Good love is nurturing self, others and the environment.
Evil is that which destroys, takes from the self,
from others and our environment. Let me ask you,
what's going on with this government, with ICE
agents, with military in our cities, with healthcare
being taken away? Is that nurturing or is that
taking away? Is that love or is that evil? Number
seven, stirs up dissension. And a question for
you, are there more or are there fewer people
marching in the streets today than there were
two years ago? Now, these verses have been from
the book of Proverbs. And it's thought that most
of this book was written by King Solomon. Question
again. Was he lying when he said that the Lord
detests these things? Is this the fake news of
the time? And I'll end this again. I'm going
to repeat. I greatly respect those who strive
to live their values. I have lost my patience
with the imitation Christians whose religion
is nothing more than performance art. How dare
you judge us you say judge not lest you be judged
you've got a log in your eye. You're a bad person
Okay, you'll get no argument there. I am a bad
person Yet here I am judging the heck out of
imitation Christians Why? We can't afford to
wait until you get to heaven for God to judge
you You're messing things up down here right
now. So if you're not going to judge yourself,
I guess I'm going to have to do it for you. This
has been Brother Andy's Church of Biblical Sanity.