{"id":5235,"date":"2017-02-01T19:39:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T19:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trondheimumc.com\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2025-02-05T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:39:40","slug":"biskop-knallhardt-ut-mot-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trondheimumc.midtkil.no\/index.php\/2017\/02\/01\/biskop-knallhardt-ut-mot-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Biskop knallhardt ut mot Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"trhumc-bishop-ough6\"Murer er ubibelsk! Gjestfrihet er bibelsk! <\/strong>\u00c5 avvise din neste er ubibelsk! \u00c5 ta i mot den fremmede er bibelsk! Lederen av Biskopsr\u00e5det i United Methodist Church, Bruce R. Ough, var krystallklar da han mandag i skarpe ordelag ford\u00f8mte president Donald Trumps «omfattende angrep p\u00e5 immigranter og flyktninger».<\/strong><\/p>\n

«V\u00e5rt lands sjel st\u00e5r p\u00e5 spill», advarer biskop Ough som sterkt anmoder president Trump og hans administrasjon og Kongressen om «\u00e5 \u00a0oppheve de skadelige president-ordrene og redde nasjonens sjel. Samtidig\u00a0oppfordrer han alle medlemmer av United Methodist Church \u00e5 se Kristi ansikt i flyktningene.<\/p>\n

«President Trumps hensynsl\u00f8se, lite gjennomtenkte president-ordrer…. er kostbare, un\u00f8dvendige og i meget sterk strid med v\u00e5re veridier om medf\u00f8lelse, verdighet og rettferdighet for alle individer, uansett nasjonbalitet, religi\u00f8s tilknyting eller jurdisk status», tordner biskopen.<\/p>\n

«Det er ikke tilfeldig at J\u00f8dedom, Kristendom og Islam framstiller Guds rike som en bankett, et m\u00e5ltidsfellesskap hvor alle er invitert, p\u00e5peker biskop Ough.\u00a0Vi skal ta vennlig imot den fremmede og elske v\u00e5r neste og st\u00e5 sammen med de mest s\u00e5rbare blant oss.<\/p>\n

«Flyktninger og innvandrere kommer til oss, ikke bare med sine behov, men de brimnger med seg energi og ressurser, h\u00e5pefulle og frihetselskende. Disse gavene har alltid bidratt til fornyelse av kirke og samfunn», mener biskop Ough.<\/p>\n

Men fremfor alt leder disse fremmede oss til Kristus, understreker han. «N\u00e5r vi tar i mot en fremmed, tar vi i mot Jesus. Flyktninger, innvandrere, de som lengter etter frihet – det er disse Jesus snakket om da\u00a0han sa: «Jeg var fremmed og dere tok i mot meg» (Matt: 25:35)<\/p>\n

Biskop Bruce R. Ough, som alts\u00e5 er leder i den globale United Methodist Church’s biskopsr\u00e5d, \u00a0publiserte sin egen uttalelse p\u00e5 en pressekonferanse i Hennepin United Methodist Church (Minnesota), samme dag som han som han og en rekke andre amerikanske religi\u00f8se ledere i en felles uttalelse ogs\u00e5 kritiserte presidentens ordrer knyttet til flyktning\/innvandrerpolitikken.<\/p>\n

Her kan du lese hele biskops Oughs uttalelse i original:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Today, I stand with colleagues representing several faith traditions to strongly denounce President Trump\u2019s widespread attack on immigrants and refugees. President Trump\u2019s reckless, ill-conceived executive orders will divide families, impose a religious test for Muslims facing forced migration, penalize communities providing sanctuary and wall off the United States from our neighbors. These actions are expensive, unnecessary and profoundly antithetical to our values of compassion, dignity and justice for all individuals regardless of nationality, religious affiliation or legal status.<\/em><\/p>\n

The biblical witness is clear and unambiguous. Walls are unbiblical. Hospitality is biblical. Denying one\u2019s neighbor is unbiblical. Welcoming the stranger is biblical. It is not surprising that Judaism, Christianity and Islam teach the reign of God as a banquet to which all peoples are invited. We are to welcome the sojourner, love our neighbor and stand with the most vulnerable among us. These very values from our sacred texts and faith traditions are currently reflected in the mandate of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and must not be usurped by any executive order. Orders, legislation or administrative actions that would have the U.S. State Department disqualify refugees from protection and resettlement based on their nationality or religion are a denial of the very principles this nation was built upon, contradict the legacy of leadership our country has offered the world, and dishonor our shared humanity.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jesus was explicit in his teachings. In Matthew\u2019s gospel Jesus says, \u201cWhoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.\u201d (Matthew 10:40).<\/em><\/p>\n

Refugees and immigrants arrive among us, not only with their needs, but also bearing gifts of energy, resourcefulness, love of liberty and hope. These gifts have always contributed to the renewal of our society and the church.<\/em><\/p>\n

Above all, these strangers bring to us the Christ. When we welcome a stranger we welcome Jesus, and when we welcome Jesus we welcome our creator. Refugees, immigrants, those yearning to be free\u2014these are the ones whom Jesus spoke about when he said, \u201cI was a stranger and you welcomed me\u201d (Matthew 25:35).<\/em><\/p>\n

Repeatedly Jesus tells his disciples:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFor those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.\u201d (Matthew 16:25)<\/em><\/p>\n

The original Greek language is far more poetic, powerful and prophetic. In finer translations of the Greek language, we hear Jesus saying:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever seeks to build a wall around their soul shall destroy it; whoever tears down the wall (around their soul) shall bring their soul to a living birth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The very soul of our country is at stake. When we abandon strangers who are at risk of bigotry, xenophobia and violence we not only destroy their hope, we destroy our own souls. When we fail to assist the refugees fleeing danger, we not only place them in harm\u2019s way, we do harm to our own souls. When we build walls of concrete, or walls of divisive rhetoric, or walls of fear, or walls of immoral immigration policies, we build a wall around our own souls.<\/em><\/p>\n

Christ calls us to tear down the walls around our souls that we might live fully and abundantly. Thus, I call on the Trump administration and the U.S. Congress to rescind the harmful executive orders and save the soul of our country. I call upon the people of The United Methodist Church to see the face of Christ in the refugee. Say \u201cno\u201d to the walling off of our country and our hearts and say \u201cyes\u201d to their hope \u2013 our hope \u2013 for new life. Let us unite and work together to bring the soul of this country to a living birth!<\/em><\/p>\n

Bishop Bruce R. Ough<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

President\u2028 Council of Bishops\u2028 The United Methodist Church\u2028 <\/em><\/p>\n

January 30, 2017<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Murer er ubibelsk! Gjestfrihet er bibelsk! \u00c5 avvise din neste er ubibelsk! \u00c5 ta i mot den fremmede er bibelsk! Lederen av Biskopsr\u00e5det i United Methodist Church, Bruce R. Ough, var krystallklar da han mandag i skarpe ordelag ford\u00f8mte president Donald Trumps «omfattende angrep p\u00e5 immigranter og flyktninger». «V\u00e5rt lands sjel st\u00e5r p\u00e5 spill», advarer … Fortsett \u00e5 lese Biskop knallhardt ut mot Trump<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trondheimumc.midtkil.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trondheimumc.midtkil.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trondheimumc.midtkil.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trondheimumc.midtkil.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trondheimumc.midtkil.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trondheimumc.midtkil.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14275,"href":"https:\/\/trondheimumc.midtkil.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions\/14275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trondheimumc.midtkil.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trondheimumc.midtkil.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trondheimumc.midtkil.no\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}