On March 30, 2026, clergy members, moral leaders, veterans and directly impacted people organized Moral Mondays across the country and in a solidarity action in Canada for public prayer, testimony, and prophetic witness against unholy war in the Middle East. Demonstrators across 14 states, Washington DC, and Montreal, Québec called for Congress to end funding for the war in the Middle East – which is costing an estimated $1 billion per day.
During this Holy Week on the Christian calendar and Passover celebration for Jews, a President who claims to champion the “Judeo-Christian tradition” is threatening to commit a war crime by destroying civilian infrastructure. The Commander-in-Chief of the most lethal military force in the history of the world has a Defense Secretary who presents this war as a crusade and religious advisors like Franklin Graham who celebrate him as some kind of messianic figure.
We need a moral opposition to unholy war.
What we are witnessing is moral insanity and, quite possibly, mental insanity. He is fighting for a kind of god status. All want-to-be kings and emperors have eventually gone to this space – it is the dead end of strongmen throughout the history of the world. They desire attention and adoration so much that they despise God – especially the God who is love and whose prophets declared that swords will be beat into plowshares.
Trump, his MAGA cabinet, and their Congressional entourage do not worship the God of Scripture, and certainly not Jesus. They worship Trump. They worship themselves and their own plans. They worship their own way of seeing the world. Trump is their idol and altar – the object of his and their own worship.
Trump does not believe that all people have inalienable rights endowed our Creator. We know this, whatever he says, because of what he does. He believes there are different kinds of people and that he can determine who deserves which rights.
In his twisted self-glorification, everything was bad before him. Nobody else has ever done anything. He is the salvation. He feeds on this kind of false deification. So it is no wonder in a week when so much of the world turns to the One who loves all and did more with nonviolent love on a cross than all the armies of the world, Trump and his religious nationalist backers who despise Jesus and his Way would deepen his commitment to the unholiness of war and specifically his war of choice.
This is what false gods and self-worshiping emperors do. He is doing it in this holy season because he just can’t have the real God taking all the attention and showing us a faith that bombs can’t blow out and fire can’t burnout.
This is Trump’s greatest unholiness and failure. He is at war with divinity. He is driven by the need to be all in all. So were the ancient Caesars. It’s what drove them insane and caused them to make insane decisions to destroy life. Could it be this is the real reason why we have a 25th amendment? When an elected leader is at war with divinity, trying to prove his own god status and demonstrate his desire for everyone to bow to him – even if it means using the resources of this nation to obliterate and kill civilians – he is, in the truest sense, “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
This is why we organized Moral Mondays across the nation in this Holy Week and are making plans to gather again next Monday in the nation’s capitol. If you would like to join Moral Monday in Washington, DC, please register here for more information.
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