In a town hall on Tuesday, the nine-term Republican conjured a courtroom scene, describing his colleagues as 'accusers' and evoking the trial that, in the telling of the New Testament, preceded the crucifixion, death and burial of Jesus.
By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow April 24 at 5:02 AM Scripture teaches that Jesus was silent before his accusers.The nine-term Iowa Republican on Tuesday said the censure he has faced for statements embracing white nationalism gave him greater insight into the suffering endured by Jesus. In making that point, he seemed to liken himself to the Christian savior.
His party — which he has helped steer to the right on issues such as immigration and abortion — used to tolerate it. This year, the dam broke, but King says he’s still afloat. Seeing that his travails had biblical parallels, King said, made him grateful for the sizable share of Christians in his district, which lies in the northwest quadrant of the state.
King disagreed. “There’s plenty in our history, plenty in our culture and plenty in the experiences and the lives of our Founding Fathers that says otherwise,” he told his interlocutor.As proof, King laid out a hypothetical situation in which “you run over the neighbor’s dog and you kill it.” The natural response, “if you’re any kind of a man,” is to knock on your neighbor’s door and explain what happened.After that, you say, “I didn’t mean to, I’m sorry; I’m sorry I killed your dog.
Originally from Minnesota, she attended the Rhema Bible Training College in Broken Arrow, Okla. After a few decades on the East Coast, she decided to move back to the Midwest to make attending family weddings and funerals more convenient.
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