WWUTT 1095 Q&A Nancy Pelosi's Claim, Pete Buttigieg's Faith, Talking Politics with Family?

Does Nancy Pelosi truly love everyone? Pete Buttigieg says he's a Christian. Is he? And how do we talk to members of our family about being godly in politics? The answers to these questions and others, when we understand the text.

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Here once again is Pastor Gabe.

Thank you, Becky, who is not in studio with me today. I know I hear the disappointment in your voices. It's all my fault. You can blame me. I will take the lion's share of the blame. We record these programs on Thursday evening.

And if you're a regular listener to the Friday Q &A, you'll know that toward the end of the program, Becky tends to trail off a little bit because she's tired. I'm the night owl. She's the morning glory.

So if I don't get stuff set up to record on Thursday evening early enough, then she doesn't have enough energy to make it all the way through the recording. And so Thursday was an especially busy day for us.

And I didn't get the stuff ready in time. So I told her, babe, just go to bed. I'll apologize for us both. And God willing, she'll be back on the program with us next week. Being the Friday edition, we take questions from the listeners.

And you can send those questions to when we understand the text at Gmail dot com. Now, as you brought up today's episode, you might have noticed a couple of names in the title that and these persons are politicians.

The first of those names is Nancy Pelosi. She's the speaker of the House of Representatives here in the United States of America. Now, without going too much into an explanation of our system of government, the speaker of the House is second in line for president of the United States.

If something were to happen to the president, the vice president would become the president. But if something were to happen to both the president and the vice president, the speaker of the House would become president.

The speaker is Nancy Pelosi. She is a liberal Democrat. And right now, the Democrats, especially in the House of Representatives, are trying to impeach Donald Trump. They're trying to find something to impeach him with.

And we've been in impeachment proceedings for the last several weeks. If you listen to the briefing with Al Moller, he's probably been keeping you up to speed on all of that. So Nancy Pelosi had a press conference yesterday in which she was talking about these impeachment proceedings.

And a reporter asked her a question. He asked her if she hated Donald Trump. And Nancy Pelosi responded very angrily to that reporter's question. And her response went viral all over social media yesterday.

I made a comment about it as well. And I wanted to respond to some of the criticisms that I got as a result of this comment. But first, here is Nancy Pelosi and her exchange with this reporter. Now, the beginning of it's going to be kind of hard to hear because it's in the background.

But then Nancy Pelosi walks back to the podium and it clears up a little bit. You'll be able to hear what she's saying. But it's specifically the statement she makes about how she doesn't hate anybody that I want to respond to.

Do you hate the president? I don't hate anybody.

I think the president is a coward when it comes to helping our kids who are afraid of gun violence. I think he is cruel when he doesn't deal with helping our dreamers, of which we're very proud. I think he's in denial about the constitution, about the climate crisis.

However, that's about the election. This is about the election. Take it up in the election. This is about the Constitution of the United States and the facts that lead to the president's violation of his oath of office.

And as a Catholic, I resent you're using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me. I don't hate anyone. I was raised in a way that is full, a heart full of love and always prayed for the president.

And I still pray for the president. I pray for the president all the time. So don't mess with me when it comes to words like that.

Now the comment that she made there toward the end was certainly very good. We've all been instructed to pray for the president of the United States. In fact, you should even pray for Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House.

First Timothy chapter two, verse one. First of all, then I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

This is good and it is pleasing in the sight of God, our savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. Would you desire that president Trump repent of his sin and come to a knowledge of the truth and so be saved?

Pray for him that he would. Would you desire that Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, would repent of her sin and that she would come to a knowledge of the truth and so be saved? Pray for her that she would.

It is certainly good to be praying for our elected officials, as Nancy Pelosi said. So we are instructed here in the scriptures to do so. But as for her statement that she doesn't hate anybody, I'm telling you, she most certainly does now, whether or not she hates Donald Trump.

I wouldn't be able to know that. But she most certainly hates innocent unborn children. Nancy Pelosi, as one of the most liberal speakers of the House there has ever been, if not the most liberal, would give a woman who doesn't want her unborn child any and all opportunities to kill that child.

And if Nancy Pelosi had her way, she would make the taxpayer pay for it. This is what Nancy Pelosi has said about late term abortion. Quote, as a practicing and respectful Catholic, this abortion is sacred ground to me.

This shouldn't have anything to do with politics. Unquote. She calls abortion sacred ground and once again makes reference to the fact that she's Catholic, as though that makes it better. Earlier this year, she said that abortion bans, quote, violate the Constitution.

They ignore basic morality. Unquote. They violate what part of the Constitution? How about in the Declaration of Independence, where it says that the inalienable rights we've been endowed with by our creator include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

Nancy Pelosi would deny a person that first inalienable right, the right to life. And she would do any and everything that she could to protect what she believes to be the right to abortion, the right to kill an unborn child.

Yes, my friends, she most definitely hates. And I made a comment about this online, the hatred that is in her heart toward the unborn. And if she does not repent of it, she stands before God condemned.

John 318, whoever believes in him is not condemned. But whoever does not believe in Jesus is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only son of God. It is only Jesus Christ, only by faith in him.

That Nancy Pelosi will be forgiven of her sins and have everlasting life with God. Being Catholic is most definitely not going to save her. She's basically claiming to be in league with the pope who's an antichrist.

But it is only by faith in Jesus Christ that we come to salvation. And I do pray that she would repent of her wickedness and so be saved. I made a comment about this online, about how the fact that there is hatred in her heart for the unborn.

And I tied into that statement. First, John 315. But I'm going to start in verse 11 here and read through verse 15. First, John 311, for this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brothers righteous. Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.

We know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

And that last verse there, that was the one that I tied into Nancy Pelosi, the hatred that she has in her heart for the unborn. There are 3000 babies in America who die by abortion daily. 3000 per day.

So, yes, my friends, Nancy Pelosi most definitely hates a lot. After making this comment on Twitter, I received quite a bit of backlash from it. One of these comments came from a woman who called herself yoga goddess.

And she says, so you are obviously not Catholic, but I would guess born again, evangelical, where you care about a fetus in the womb, but not once a baby is born. Got it. Actually, ma 'am, I am an adoptive parent, but I don't expect someone who refers to themselves as yoga goddess to be able to to reason rationally and have a sensible discussion instead passing judgment on these things.

That's what you would rather do. I hope that woman likewise repents and comes to a knowledge of Christ because she is steeped in paganism and openly acknowledges that. This next comment comes from Pam.

What about all the children murdered by guns? What about the thousands of children in cages right now who will emotionally never be the same from the torture of being separated from their families? There are thousands of children in foster care that need adoption.

Care for them. Well, as I mentioned earlier, I am an adoptive parent, and I, as a pastor, have also helped other couples get set up with children through adoption. So I've done referrals, adoption, referrals and recommendations and given good references for these families and and not just adopting healthy children, but even adopting children who came or who have disabilities and are less likely to be adopted out of the foster care system.

And I've worked with parents to adopt even those health challenged kids. Also, it's been part of my job as a pastor. But as for this reference to what about the thousands of children in cages right now who will emotionally never be the same from the torture of being separated from their families?

Do you understand why they've been separated from their families? Because mom and dad did something illegal. And so this is the way this is handled all over the nation. The immigration thing has become kind of the hot button topic in reference to this.

But we had in a town not far from where we live, there was a couple who got in trouble with the law because they were making meth. A husband and a wife, a mom and a dad who together were making meth. The cops came and arrested them.

What happened to the kids? The kids had to be taken away from mom and dad because mom and dad did something illegal. You don't hear outcry happening as a result of something like that, but you do at the border because it's the perspective of the liberals of the Democrats that we should just have open borders that no one should ever get in trouble or arrested because they tried to get into the United States.

There shouldn't be illegal immigration. It's just open borders for everybody. So to try to push that argument, they create this this sympathetic picture of a child locked in a cage that was unjustly ripped from their parents.

No justice is being done on the border because mom and dad illegally tried to enter the country. It's very unfortunate. It's very sad that this happens. I wish it would not be the case, but you can't look at this and say something unjust is taking place.

The one who did wrong here is not the official who separated mom and dad from their kids. It was what mom and dad did. Next comment comes from Shannon in Wisconsin. She says James three one in case you forgot.

James three one is not many of you should aspire to be teachers, my brothers, for you know that teachers will be judged with greater strictness. She goes on to say, FYI, you shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery are right next to each other in the Ten Commandments.

God gave us a choice. He doesn't force us. We just assume we can choose for others. Play God. See First Commandment. I don't really know what she's saying here. I guess she's trying to say that I'm playing God by telling a person what their choice should be.

But of course, she would be playing God by telling me what my choice should be. See First Commandment. The First Commandment is I'm the Lord your God. You will not have another one. Shannon, do you worship the Lord God only and you have no other gods but him?

If you are for abortion, then you are sacrificing children to a false God. That's idol worship. If you are sexually promiscuous, you are not worshiping the one true God for the scriptures say in First Corinthians chapter six verses nine and ten that the sexually immoral will not enter the kingdom of God.

But there is forgiveness for the person who has done sexual immorality. It's not like it's a deal breaker and there's no way for you to get into heaven. You can be forgiven your sins today by turning to Jesus Christ.

He will forgive you. He will grant you repentance. You will no longer desire the sinful way, but you desire God and to please him and then grow and walk in righteousness with Christ. Next comment comes from a fellow that went by the name of Lightbox Therapy in Buffalo, New York.

Listen, man, God does not like you. All right, Chris goes on to say, but separating families is OK. Locking children in cages and see this argument come up with regularity. Cheating on your wife slash wives, threatening the death of another human.

We must have very different gods. I have really no idea what you're talking about, Chris. I didn't lock any children in cages. I didn't cheat on my wife. I have not threatened death of another human being.

It sounds like you're throwing out arguments so that you don't have to recognize what I said in my statement that three thousand children are dying every day by the barbaric practice of abortion. What are you doing about that?

Are you as outraged about the slaughter of children? Are you more outraged about this than you are about children being locked in cages? Because those children who are being separated from their families at the border and put in holding facilities while their parents are getting in trouble, these children are not being murdered.

They're not even being tortured. But if an unborn child goes into a Planned Parenthood clinic, they rarely ever come back out alive. Where's the outcry for that for the three thousand children that are being killed by abortion every day?

See these persons who are using these comments to say, like, well, what about children being locked in cages? As though to suggest that a conservative is hypocritical. They're actually exposing themselves as hypocrites.

They don't care about children at the border or unborn children in the womb. They're not doing anything about either one. So they're the ones that are actually being hypocrites, not the person who cares about the life of an unborn child.

Now, this next comment I wrote down because I just want you to hear how outrageous the liberal side can be. And this was from a person on Twitter actually had over a thousand followers. I'm fairly certain his name is Jeremy in Portland, Oregon.

And he made this comment. Three thousand babies simply isn't enough. We must call upon the devil himself for an extra seven thousand babies to abort. That's a real comment, folks. That's a real dark heart on that individual to even joke about this if he was just kidding.

But it is incredibly sick and wicked and shows you the kind of depravity that our world has fallen into when you can joke about the slaughter of unborn children like that. He may as well be standing at the gates of Auschwitz, making fun of the Jews being led into the ovens.

Next comment comes from Sue. And I suppose you are for the murder of millions of Americans due to gun violence. Do you actually care about those babies once they're born into poverty or do you support Trump taking away food stamps?

Well, let me answer those three things in order. First of all, last year, there were less than ten thousand homicides involving a gun, not millions, less than ten thousand homicides involving a gun, which, you know, those homicides, that's also wicked.

But you need to consider this. More children will die by abortion in four days than the number of victims who will be murdered by a gun in one year. Abortion is America's Holocaust. Where is your outrage over that statistic?

You're saying that I need to be outraged about gun violence. Where's your outrage over the murder of unborn children? Next comment. So you said, do you actually care about those babies once they're born into poverty?

I am an adoptive parent. I married a single mom. There you go. The third comment that you made in there. Do you support Trump taking away food stamps? Trump didn't take away food stamps. Food stamps are still a thing.

Trump did not take them away. The USDA rule change that just happened affects people between the ages of 18 and 49 who are childless and not disabled. They should not be getting food stamps. And I support that.

But the food stamps were not taken away from people who need them. Again, this is that creating a straw man argument just for Sue to justify herself in not having to recognize the serious horror that is going on in our nation right now.

The bloodbath of the killing of unborn children. This next comment from Marcia. No one wants people to have abortions, but people do have a right to make decisions. Very difficult decisions, by the way, about their bodies and for their families without your input.

The Bible says, Judge not lest ye be judged. In other words, mind your own business. Marcia, take a little bit of your own advice and mind your own business. You have just offered your input and you have just judged me.

So it's hypocritical for you to say that. By the way, no one who believes in the death of unborn children has any moral ground to therefore pass judgment on another person. As soon as you're ready to accept the inalienable right to life, then I'll give you some moral ground to start making some moral judgments consistently and not hypocritically.

This next comment from a Laticus in New York. Do you know what pro-choice means or are you just purposely daft? Actually, a Laticus. Do you know what pro-choice means? What about the baby's choice? See, if you're really for choice, then you need to be you need to actually give the child a choice here and the child doesn't have a choice in an abortion.

A Laticus went on to say being pro-choice doesn't mean you want babies murdered. It means you don't want to make decisions for other people, not your place. We have autonomy. Who are you to decide? What does the Bible say about judging others?

Get a clue and practice what you preach. We hear this argument all the time. My body, my choice, right? The government regulates your body in all kinds of ways. For example, how we heat our homes. The government actually tells you how you can heat your home, how we light up a room, what food we buy and how we cook it.

Those things are decided by our government. What kinds of toys our kids play with? All kinds of regulations that those toys have to pass before they end up in your child's possession. What kind of car you can drive?

How loud a television commercial is allowed to be? Yeah, there's a government organization for that that determines a commercial can only be this loud and no louder. I used to be on that side of the media before, and I had to follow those rules in those regulations.

What drugs are illegal and which drugs are legal? The government decides that how many legal drugs you're allowed to consume legally. That's how the government regulates your own body, where you are allowed to go, which property you're not allowed to be on, what times of the day you're allowed to be on certain property.

These are just a few examples of how the government does indeed regulate your body. It is not always your body, your choice. Now, let me put this before you. I want the right to own a gun so I can defend myself if someone breaks into my home to harm me or my family.

The liberals are saying that I don't deserve that right. Why not? My body, my choice, right? Don't I have the right to own a gun to be able to defend myself? I can apply that exact same principle to owning a gun.

In fact, my body, my choice makes way more moral sense when I apply it to wanting to protect myself than when the pro abortionists want to apply it to the right to dismember a defenseless child. My body, my choice makes no sense in the defense of abortion because you're destroying another person's body in order to have this choice that you say that you are protecting.

But for my right to own a gun, I can say my body, my choice. And that slogan applies to the Second Amendment more so than it does apply to Roe v. Wade. So those are just an example of some of the comments that I was getting as a result of that statement that I made about the fact that Nancy Pelosi hates people.

She hates these unborn children and will do nothing to protect them, even though she's been elected for that purpose. And I pray that she repents and comes to a knowledge of Christ, our Savior, who will indeed forgive her, even though there is much blood on her hands as an elected official, an elected official of this country.

We're going to continue on in the theme of politics here as we go to this next question, but still a theological one. This is from Clint in North Carolina. Dear Pastor Gabe, I have family members whom I always consider to be solid Christians, but lately they've been demonstrating some really poor judgment, especially when it comes to politics.

Most of my family does not like Donald Trump. I don't have a problem with that. He does some things that I don't agree with either, but their dislike of Trump borders on the obsessive so much that they're beginning to entertain the possibility of voting for a Democrat in 2020.

All of these Democrats have openly confessed to being socialist, anti-constitutional, abortion loving, LGBTQ sympathizing crazies. OK, maybe they haven't confessed to being crazy, but you'd have to be you'd have to be crazy to be a Christian and vote for any one of them.

I do agree with you there, Clint. One of the candidates they're really beginning to show interest in is Pete Buttigieg. My brother says he's just a really nice guy and my mother has gone as far as saying he says he's a Christian.

How can I show my family? It's fine if you don't like President Trump, but don't make the serious godless error of voting for a Democrat. Well, first of all, Clint, both your brother and your mother are actually right.

Let me make sure I qualify those statements for anybody shuts me off. So your brother said of Pete Buttigieg, Mayor Pete from South Bend, Indiana, he's an openly gay mayor, by the way, and running for president of the United States, the Democrat ticket in 2020.

And Clint's brother says that Mayor Pete is just a really nice guy. That's true. What your brother says is true. Mayor Pete is a nice guy. I mean, the stuff that I see him say on television and how he responds to questions, he comes across rather charming and very well mannered.

And it's honestly, it's a breath of fresh air in the political realm right now where everything is. I mean, you can't let your kids watch because of how vile they can be to one another sometimes. And Trump is no exception.

He's one of the worst, quite honestly. So your brother is right when he says that Mayor Pete is just a nice guy. And then your mom has gone as far as saying he says he's a Christian. Your mom is right.

Mayor Pete has said he's a Christian. He's said that that doesn't mean that he is. As I mentioned to you already, Mayor Pete is openly homosexual. He claims to be married to another man. This guy is not a God fearing man.

He is not a Christian. He is living a life of wicked sinfulness that God has promised that he will judge, leaving nothing to assumption. I come back again to 1 Corinthians 6, starting in verse 9. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?

Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

But then you have a gospel proclamation that Paul makes in the next verse, 1 Corinthians 6, 11. And such were some of you. You were walking in these sins and these transgressions that God has promised that he will judge.

But you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God. But that isn't Mayor Pete. He has not been justified. He's still walking in his wicked sinfulness.

He's a smooth talker, though. He knows how to talk the talk. He can say all the buzzwords and speak the Christianese, and he can say it in just such a way and just vague enough that people will fill in the blanks with their own theology and their own things that they like about him.

And so they will actually hear him saying something that he is not saying. They will hear him making a biblical profession of Christianity when he's not doing anything of the sort. And that's what I want to do here.

I'm going to play some clips from Mayor Pete, the way that he talks about religion and then critique some of the things that he's saying here. I think that he is going to lead a lot of people astray, and it's going to be with just enough Christianese.

That's not orthodox. He's not a believer, but they're going to be people just like members of Clint's family who will be Christians, but they dislike Donald Trump so much they're willing to compromise on Christian values so they don't have to vote for him.

And instead, they'll vote for a guy like Mayor Pete, insisting that he is a Christian. One of the things that Mayor Pete likes to say is that religion is not exclusive to the Republican Party, but that he's a Christian, even though he's a Democrat.

And what we're going to hear in this first clip is is exactly that. Him saying that and then talking about his faith. This is a series of clips in a news report that was done about him.

Good stuff. Pete Buttigieg wants Democrats to reclaim the faith.

I think we've just been too susceptible to this path where the right has tried to claim religion as though it's a partisan cause.

Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a Democrat, Afghan veteran and Episcopalian, married his husband in their church last year.

We're very mindful that a day like this was not even possible not very long ago.

Now exploring a run for the White House, he told CNN's Van Jones his faith and family keep him grounded.

You know, the imagery of Christ when the divine comes to Earth as being in a servant mode. It comes from my community, a community that I think just wants you to keep your feet on the ground. It comes from my relationships, my husband, who will never get, let my head get too big because we got laundry to deal with at home.

His faith is in stark contrast to that of many conservatives who oppose gay marriage on religious grounds, including Vice President Mike Pence.

Please don't judge my state by our former governor.

Buttigieg openly questioned Pence's faith during a CNN town hall earlier this month.

Is it that he stopped believing in scripture when he started believing in Donald Trump?

I don't know. He says he draws from his faith a sense of humility and commitment to community.

What could be more different than what we're being shown in Washington right now, often with some people who view themselves as religious on the right cheering it on?

White evangelicals and regular churchgoers have been a key part of the Republican base in recent elections and are largely supportive of President Trump. And I also think that. Buttigieg is trying to appeal to people who may feel left behind.

If you were conservative and you're from an older generation and you were brought up by people you trusted to believe that it was morally wrong to be, for example, in a same sex marriage and then the pace of change has happened so quickly, I've benefited from the pace of that change.

But I also understand how disorienting it must be for people to have gone through that.

His message of unity doesn't stop there. It even extends to Chick-fil-A, whose president has voiced opposition to same sex marriage. You like Chick-fil-A?

I do not approve of their politics, but I kind of approve of their chicken. You my kind of guy, man. So maybe there's nothing else I can build that bridge.

So there you go. There's kind of the hodgepodge of religious statements that's been made by Mayor Pete, none of which were biblical. You heard that statement that he made there about how his husband keeps him humble.

This man that he's playing house with does not keep him humble. He keeps him full of himself and his own sin, which he loves while shaking his fist at God, saying to God, you're the unrighteous one. I'm the righteous one.

That's exactly what it doesn't matter that he sounds nice. He sounds like such a nice guy. This man hates God, and he is choosing to walk in sin that is abominable in the eyes of God. Sin that God judged with fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah and is said is talked about in Jude chapter one, verse seven, just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued a natural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

You know, we're kind of in a day and an age right now in which the tone police are out in full force. If you say anything passionately or anything with even the hint of anger in your voice, well, then the tone police are coming after you.

They're going to say that you're hateful and spiteful, and therefore everything that you're saying is wrong. Facts don't matter. I just don't like your tone. And so everything you're saying is wrong. Well, that also works the other way, in the sense that the tone police are listening to the tones of certain people and saying, see, I like his tone.

So therefore, everything that he's saying is right. And that's what these tone cops are saying in reference to Pete Buttigieg. I like his tone. He sounds like a nice guy. Listen to Trump and how brash he is and how much of a braggart he is, how much he boasts about himself.

My friends, Mayor Pete is very full of himself, and his tone has nothing to do with whether or not the guy is humble. He is choosing to walk in sin and encouraging other people in that sin that will exclude a person from the kingdom of God.

And this man looks to be the first openly gay president of the United States, and he wants to do it not by claiming to be a gay man, but claiming to be a gay Christian. He is attempting to woo religious the religious over to his side.

No, look at Trump. He's not a Christian man. Christians don't behave like that. But look how good and nice I am. I'm faithful to my husband. That's literally going to be a talking point regarding Pete Buttigieg, that Trump has been a braggart and a misogynist and an adulterer and a pornographer.

Buttigieg has already used that term to describe Trump, that he was that he's the porn star president. That's the way that Buttigieg is referred to him. And so he's trying to say, well, Trump is the one who is sexually immoral.

Look at me. I'm faithful to my husband. He's really going to try to spend that, folks. And there are people who are going to buy it and they will say Trump is the immoral run, the immoral one. But look at what a moral, nice guy, a moral, nice guy Pete Buttigieg is.

Listen to what Mayor Pete says here about what Christianity means to him.

Christianity to me is about humility. You know, I don't think religion belongs to one political party. And when I go to church, the scripture I hear has to do with protecting the poor and spending time with the prisoner and healing the sick and caring for the stranger, which to me is another word for immigrant.

It has a very clear set of moral and policy implications, none of which are things I would associate with the right wing. Christianity to me is about humility. It's about love. And if we want to put those values into political practice, at least by my lights, they lead us in a very progressive direction.

Surely you've seen the clip of Donald Trump saying, I'm the most humble guy there is. No one's more humble than I am. I don't know anybody more humble than me. Have you seen that? It's so hilarious because of just how hypocritical it is.

He's bragging about how humble he is. But Mayor Pete was doing it, was doing the same thing right there. He may not have sounded as brash as Donald Trump does. It may not have sounded as ironic as Donald Trump makes it sound.

But Mayor Pete was doing the same thing when he's talking about Christianity being about humility. But Mayor Pete does not humble himself before God. He does not come to God and say, I am a wicked, awful sinner who deserves judgment.