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As a Priest and Bishop-Elect, I’d ask that the UCP send Christmas greetings without the wholly inappropriate inference of divine sanction for their government. There are so many things wrong with their use of these words from the Prophet Isaiah it’s hard to know where to start. https://twitter.com/Alberta_UCP/status/1342456308922892289
First, it’s supersessionism (a form of anti-Semitism) whenever Christians use the Hebrew Scriptures and say it was just foreshadowing Jesus (this passage is likely about King Hezekiah from the 8th Century BCE).
Second, support for any ruler or government is fleeting and conditional on care for the most vulnerable. If the UCP is reading Isaiah maybe they should start at the beginning? The first chapter starts with a prophet who is utterly fed up with corruption
and who speaks truth to power saying,
“Stop doing wrong.
Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.” (Is. 1:17)
“Stop doing wrong.
Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.” (Is. 1:17)
