Opinion

No, you cannot compare Trump’s conviction to Jesus’ crucifixion

By 2024-06-05T10:19:00

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When US author and speaker Eric Metaxas recently shared a post that compared Donald Trump’s guilty verdict to Christ’s, Christians around the world were rightly horrified. It is not OK, says Dr Krish Kandiah

I am profoundly disturbed by the way that some Christian leaders in America are drawing an equivalence between the unjust trial of Jesus Christ in the first century, and former president Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, in a bid to rally the evangelical vote at the upcoming US election.

Last week, President Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records through covering up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, with whom he is alleged to have had an adulterous relationship.

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