Here is Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s lecture to President Trump, et al, at the National Sermon, on Tuesday, January 21st, 2025.

And here was my response to the Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Edgard Budde.

Is it a “good look” to be fighting with a bishop?

Is it a “good look” to lecture a President to his face, from on high, because you literally have a temporary bully pulpit?

She felt empowered to judge President Trump, directly, knowing full well no reprisal would occur at that time, not one word in return, and selected that opportunity to be pedantic and jejune, not unifying.

She made it all about herself, her positions, and not the moment.

She made it clear she was a self-righteous political reactionary first, and a religious functionary last.

Religion is being gamed by certain personnel to block themselves from criticism when, in my world, they’re the first to place themselves in the hypocritical column, in a shoddy attempt to remain aloof and inviolate, shielded behind a church or a panel of wood.

She’s cloaking and protecting behaviors behind the cape of alleged compassion, trying to wag cosmic, holy fingers at those SHE judges unworthy.

Who is placing children in danger? Horrible MAGA Neanderthals, or the parents, doctors, nurses, hospitals, and medical organizations advocating not just for the mental, chemical, and physical butchery of children, but the killing of life before birth?

Just because you wear certain clothes and vestments, step into certain buildings, read certain books, say you’re spiritual, doesn’t make you holy, learned, worthy of respect, or even a good person.

As Greg Gutfeld said, Satan isn’t going to show up in red tights holding a pitchfork.

Satan will show up like Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, an exploiter of alleged compassion, an imposter, wearing Satan’s logo, behind the branding of the forces of God.

People say you must respect the rank, not the person. But not in this case, when a provocateur, in the guise of “good,” takes full and clear advantage of a situation in order to bring the full weight of “religion” down upon an individual’s head, when religion has little to do with it, but politics does, even that respect for rank or station must be thrown out.

This Bishop does nothing but demean religion, debase religion, insult religion, insult God, and affirms to altogether too many people that organized religion has no place in their everyday lives.

Further, in consideration, I wonder what would have occurred had Joe Biden, his family, et al, been forced to listen quietly to a pastor who excoriated them all for embracing abortions, killing children, rewarding child butchery, yet still receiving communion, on January 21st of 2021?

Would that pastor have been removed, harassed, received death threats, even arrested by Garland’s DOJ and Wray’s FBI?

My tolerance for priests, pastors, bishops, fathers, whatever the name or label, all makes and models of so-called “religious leaders,” is at an end. Done. Gone. Fini.

If you’re sufficiently blinded or too ignorant to see that the forces of Demorats, Leftists, Globalists, Socialists, Communists, Islam, aren’t coming for you — aren’t trying to eliminate you wholesale — then perhaps organized religion really doesn’t deserve to survive.

If you aren’t speaking out in your churches, damned near every sermon, against these mighty forces arrayed against you, the time remaining for you to do so is running out, even with this current administration.

In four more years, the temper of the times will change again, and Donald Trump is never to return.

Because even though you may eschew politics — politics are always, always interested in you. No matter who you are or where you are.

I refer people, you so-called religious people (who apparently aren’t massively or even much motivated to defend or save yourself), to a very telling quote from another time in history, though not so long ago as to justify having forgotten it.

And that’s from Pastor Martin Niemoller, who said in 1946:

• First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist
• Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist
• Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew
• Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me

Here’s another quote, direct from history’s archives, applicable to everyone in church leadership positions today; true then, true now, true always.

It’s from George Santayana, in 1905, who said:

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

So: how condemned are you, “religious leaders”?

Do you have the capability to defend and save yourselves?

Because if you are entirely uninterested, then why should your tax-exempt status continue?

BZ