With Leonardo BlairSenior Reporter Friday, October 25, 2024

Evangelist Donnie Swaggart, the only son of TV personality Jimmy Swaggart, is now under fire from black Christians after he harshly rebuked the black church and Bishop John Drew Sheard, presiding bishop and chief apostle of the Church of God in Christ. Inch. for We support Vice President Kamala Harris for the president.

“The statement I’m about to make is this: I’m going to be called a racist and I’m going to be called every name, but someone has to stand up and talk to the black church,” Swaggart said. He started his criticism To members of Family Worship Center Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where his father remains a senior leader.

“The largest African American Pentecostal denomination, when the leader stood up and said I support that woman, he was saying: I support murder, I support homosexuality, I support lesbianism, I support transgenderism, I support every evil that Hell can prosper or (be) righteous.” This is wrong folks! He said he would applaud.

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“And the black Church votes predominantly for the anti-God party. What’s going on here? What’s going on? he asked.

Swaggart suggested that some black Christians did not like him or his ministry publicly discussing the support Democrats received from black churches, but that it needed to be discussed because Democrats did not support an agenda consistent with Biblical values. He also noted that Christian preachers were one of the most outspoken groups against slavery in 1860.

“I guarantee you, if it were 1860 today, they wouldn’t be saying a word about preachers preaching against slavery, they would be trumpeting about it. And they should. So why doesn’t the African American Church stand up for righteousness and stand up for God’s Word? Come on Church, come on! You can call me a racist, you can call me any name, but I’m right!” he declared in his timid rebuke of black churches. “I come against you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You don’t vote for someone just because your mother voted or your father voted for someone, but you vote according to God’s Word.”

Swaggart’s comments sparked plenty of criticism on social media, but one of the loudest came from outspoken activist Church Of God In Christ pastor Bishop Talbert Swan. scolded Swaggart “In the name of Black Jesus.”

“As this bigot masquerading as a preacher has come to my denomination, the Church of God in Christ, my leader Bishop J. Drew Sheard, and the Black church in general, let me offer this redeemed, sanctified, Holy Spirit-filled applause. Swan, black people “Let’s get back to his racist, hypocritical tantrum about not supporting Donald Trump,” he began. Extended response to X Wednesday.

“White evangelicals’ overwhelming support for Trump reveals the profound hypocrisy in their political and religious orientations. Trump’s life, actions, and policies are contrary to the values ​​he espouses as Christians. Evangelicals claim to defend the sanctity of marriage, but they support a man who has been married three times, each time tainted by infidelity. They preach family values ​​while supporting someone who pays porn stars and has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women. “The Bible condemns lying, but Donald Trump is a documented pathological liar and spreads lies with impunity,” he continued, arguing that white evangelicals are pretending to have an allegiance to the Bible when, in fact, their allegiance is really to power.

“The selective morality of the evangelical church – its embrace of mass violence, exploitation, and white supremacy while opposing certain sins such as abortion or homosexuality – reveals a profound hypocrisy and exposes the fact that their allegiance is not to the Gospel they claim, but to power and racial domination. Follow,” Swan argued.

On October 11, 1991, Swaggart’s father, popular television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, was pulled over while driving in California and discovered by authorities to be with a prostitute. The discovery came three years after Jimmy Swaggart was caught having an affair with a prostitute in New Orleans, which led to his ouster by the Assemblies of God.

Swaggart was cited for operating an unregistered vehicle, driving on the wrong side of the street and not wearing a seat belt when he was caught with Rosemary Garcia of the Coachella Valley.

“He wanted sex,” Garcia said KNBC-TV. “I mean that’s why he stopped me, that’s what I do, I’m a whore.”