Letter to the editor: Woe to you, Trump and Republicans

President-elect Trump and Trump Republicans sit in Moses’ seat ready to put the unjust like Kash Patel, a proponent of the QAnon cult’s bizarre and dangerous conspiracy theories, in charge of the FBI and other departments. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

Everything they do is done for people to see. They love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats. Woe to Trump and Republicans, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. Woe to you, Trump and Republicans, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.

Woe to you, Trump and Republicans, you hypocrites! You give money to churches, but you neglect the more important matters of the law — justice, mercy and faithfulness.

Woe to you, Trump and Republicans, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Woe to you, Trump and Republicans, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but, on the inside, you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Bruce Braden

Carmel, Ind.