Jesus Would Send Trump to Hell
That’s what the Bible says.
A pretty controversial statement I will admit. But if you don’t believe me, check it out yourself.
I don’t expect MAGA Christians to believe me. After all, they don’t believe in the Bible anyway, as I explain in the post below. They worship Trump, not Jesus.
Why MAGA Christians Won’t Embrace The Gospels
It’s Because They Have No Faith.
But if you read the Bible as I have (I was a men’s Sunday school teacher for over a decade), and are a Bible literalist the conclusion is unmistakable
I refer you to the Book of Matthew, the 25th Chapter. You will find there a story from the lips of Jesus himself. He is describing the Last Judgement and is warning what can befall us if we do not act as he commands towards others.
Some say that he is talking about how we treat Christians, and that how we treat non-Christians has nothing to do with Christ’s story.
OK, I won’t argue that with you, because this essay IS about how Trump is treating Christians. I’ll get to that in a minute.
Jesus’ Story
In the story Christ says that at the Last Judgement God will divide humanity into the sheep and the goats, with the sheep being a metaphor for the righteous and the goats as a metaphor for the unrighteous.
He then speaks to the sheep and thanks them for their righteousness, especially for their loving treatment of him, Christ, and his brothers and sisters who can be seen as other Christians.
Then he turns to speak to the goats, the unrighteous, those who have earned his wrath.
He tells them that they are being condemned to hell for their cruelty and lack of love. Read the quotation below and check it further at the link above.
41 “Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment…”
Why does Trump go to Hell?
What does this have to do with anything Trump has done?
Well, Trump has sent migrants to Panama to be held in a camp at the edge of the jungle until they can be deported to their home countries. For now they are being held in a hotel and not allowed to leave. At least one detainee has attempted suicide. When the jungle camp is ready, they will be sent there until they are repatriated.
Among those migrants are a number of Iranian Christians who fled Iran to escape execution for converting from Islam to Christianity. If they are returned to Iran there is a high likelihood that they could be killed.
It’s damn hard to point to anything that more perfectly fits into the “don’t do that to me and my brothers and sisters” category found in Matthew 25 than shipping a Christian back to a country that’s going to kill them for being a Christian.
Check out the facts below. If you can’t get to the article, I’ve included quotations.
From NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/americas/trump-migrant-deportation-panama.html
A migrant from Iran, Artemis Ghasemzadeh, 27, wrote “Help us” in lipstick on one window. The Times, which was able to contact Ms. Ghasemzadeh and other deportees by cellphone, conducted interviews with her, several other Iranian deportees and a migrant from China. Many of the deportees wanted only their first or last names used out of fear that they would suffer reprisals if returned to their countries.
It was Ms. Ghasemzadeh who sent a reporter the text saying “only a miracle can save us.”
She said she was an English teacher who, in Iran, had converted to Christianity in an underground church. According to Iran’s Islamic Shariah law, converting from Islam is considered apostasy and is a crime punishable by death.
Ms. Ghasemzadeh said that she and nine other Iranian Christians, including three children, ages 8, 10 and 11, had spent their days in the hotel, frantically trying to get help from the outside. At night they read from a copy of the Bible she had on her cellphone.
Jesus spoke specifically about these people. His words were “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me”. Instead of being welcomed in as Christ demanded, where will these brothers and sisters of Christ be sent? The Times article explains:
“The deportees at the hotel will soon be sent to a camp at the edge of a jungle called the Darién Gap, according to Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino. Built just a few years ago to house migrants headed north to the United States, the camp will now handle a reverse migration wave.
It is unclear how long the migrants will be held there.
In the past, the camp, called San Vicente, consisted of just a few shacks in a muddy expanse, and officials often kept migrants penned inside. Dengue fever is a common danger in the region.”
Let’s recap
Iranian Christians flee to America.
Among them are several children.
They are captured after they cross the border.
As part of the immigration deportation orders of Donald Trump they are sent to Panama and will soon be held in a jungle camp with poor conditions in an area where the disease Dengue fever is rampant.
Eventually they will be returned to Iran where they face execution for the crime of converting from Islam to Christianity.
According to the words of Christ, those who do not welcome “the least of these my brothers” “shall go away into everlasting punishment.”
Will Trump really be condemned to Hell?
Let me say now that I do not believe Trump will really be sent to hell.
More’s the pity.
It’s just that I don’t believe in hell and I don’t consider the Bible to be the inerrant Word of God.
But for those of you who do, and especially for those of you who are what preachers like to call “Bible believing Christians”, the words of Christ as recorded in the Book of Matthew are clear.
Trump is defying the will of God and will be condemned to hell for his sins.
