Left-Wing Journalist Tries to Paint Attempted Trump Assassin as Christian ‘Offended by Trump’s Blasphemy’
A left-wing journalist attempted to recast a would-be assassin's motives as Christian piety offended by blasphemy — a textbook inversion of moral reality that Scripture identifies as the hallmark of those who call evil good and good evil.
Isaiah 5:20
Direct Principle“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
Why this passage
Isaiah 5:20 is a covenant indictment — one of six 'woe' oracles in that chapter — directed at those in Israel who inverted moral categories for self-serving purposes. The grammatical-historical sense is a divine pronouncement of judgment on anyone, especially those with social influence (advisors, judges, prophets), who systematically reverse the definitions of good and evil.
The principle is not culturally bounded to eighth-century Judah; it identifies a recurring human strategy: if you can rename a thing, you can rehabilitate it. That is precisely the move being made here — attempted assassination is relabeled 'Christian piety,' and the inversion is offered to a mass audience as moral framing.
Isaiah declared with unsparing clarity, 'Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.' When a journalist frames an assassination attempt as a form of Christian devotion, that ancient woe lands with fresh weight — the moral compass is not merely confused but deliberately reversed.
This is not innocent error. It is the kind of crafted narrative that reshapes how a watching public understands both faith and violence.
The watchman's duty is to name it plainly: cloaking bloodshed in the garments of piety is not journalism — it is deception wearing a collar.
Today's Prayer
Pray that God grant His people discernment to recognize when religious language is wielded as a weapon of deception, and that the truth of Christ's call to peace and righteousness would stand unmistakable against every distortion.
Further Scripture
Additional passages that illuminate this event, each grounded in a distinct interpretive lens.
“But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.”
Why this passage
Peter's warning was addressed to congregations navigating teachers who claimed Christian authority while distorting the faith for their own ends. The key phrase is 'the way of truth will be blasphemed' — meaning that false teaching causes the watching world to speak evil of genuine Christianity.
While the journalist in question is not a church teacher, the dynamic Peter describes is directly applicable: when Christian identity is publicly misrepresented — whether from within or without — the reputation of the way of truth suffers the same injury Peter foresaw.
How it applies
By affixing a Christian motive to an assassin, the journalist accomplishes exactly what 2 Peter 2 warns against: the way of truth is blasphemed in the public square. Millions of readers receive a distorted image of what Christian conviction looks like.
This is the social mechanism Peter identified — false representation of the faith damages its witness. Believers must be prepared to give clear, calm correction when this happens, not merely outrage.
“For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”
Why this passage
Jude writes of those who infiltrate the community of faith not through open assault but through subtle redefinition — 'perverting' grace, not abolishing it. The strategy is to take genuine theological vocabulary and repoint it toward ends it was never meant to serve.
The journalist's move is structurally identical: genuine Christian concepts (offense at blasphemy, zeal for God's honor) are taken and redirected to sanctify an act of violence. The language of faith is not rejected — it is perverted.
How it applies
Cloaking an assassination attempt in the language of righteous Christian indignation is a perversion of the very concepts it borrows. Jude's readers were warned that such moves are not new, are not innocent, and are not without condemnation.
The Church today needs the same alertness Jude demanded: recognize when the vocabulary of faith is being conscripted for ends that contradict Christ's teaching, and refuse to let the perversion stand unchallenged.
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