USAID versus Incinerator: What Would Jesus Christ Have Done

It is one thing to withhold charitable giving due to a lack of resources, but it is entirely another to refuse to give when one has an abundance. 

This is precisely what makes the closure of USAID and the expiration of undelivered grains and food supplies an egregious crime against humanity and ungodly in every sense.

This represents a grave injustice and an affront to human dignity. It is worth asking how the American Christian Evangelical Right reconciles such an image with its professed values, especially in light of its unwavering support for the President.

If these actions had been condemned by Jesus Christ, then silence in the face of President Trump’s decision to abolish USAID, while surplus grain meant for the world’s most vulnerable is destroyed, is profoundly at odds with Christian teaching.

True leadership is elevated by compassion. How can one witness this without experiencing a deep sense of moral revulsion?

Is it possible that the President’s advisors, allies, and confidants are so detached from the human cost of this policy that they fail to see its cruelty or lack the conviction to call for its reversal?

And is the President himself unaware of the implications, assuming no one in his circle is conscientious enough to point out the moral and practical absurdity of this course of action?

One can only hope that the Norwegian Nobel Committee is paying attention.