Former Trump campaign and personal lawyer Jenna Ellis is under fire for attack US Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who is also the senior pastor of the church of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is considered a “heretic”. She has also been criticized for attacking two MSNBC hosts “who don’t even pretend to be Christians”.
Ellis, whose professional claim to be a “constitutional lawyer” is being questioned by experts because she has apparently no legal experience and has never argued before the Supreme Court, had no problem attacking Senator Warnock at Easter.
On Easter Sunday, Ellis popped Warnock for a tweet she called “Heresy”, which Warnock later deleted.
This is a false gospel and a heresy. We cannot save ourselves.
The absolute truth, and the only meaning of Easter that matters, is the literal, physical resurrection of Jesus Christ, and we must accept Him as Lord and Savior.
Read Romans, “Reverend” Warnock. You are a wrong teacher. https://t.co/dRVz0LdKGu
– Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) April 4, 2021
In it he talked about how good work can help people save themselves, which religious law saw as an attack on the Christian church.
Warnock deleted his heretical tweet.
He should also delete the Reverend before his name. pic.twitter.com/6FYNG6LFZ1
– Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) April 5, 2021
But she wasn’t satisfied. Ellis continued to attack Warnock as a “heretic”, claiming that being pro-choice was “against the Bible and moral truth” when, according to some, the Bible is not against abortion.
Let us not forget that the “Reverend” Warnock stands for election, which is also against the Bible and against moral truth.
Warnock is a heretic and has nothing to do with calling himself a Christian if he disagrees with Christianity and the truth.
– Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) April 5, 2021
Ellis continued her attacks, following up on MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan and Joy Reid after pushing them back and calling Rev. Warnock a heretic.
The left like Hasan cannot see or argue but race.
– Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) April 5, 2021
Hasan was happy to take on Ellis, who was unable to grasp the severity of her heresy attack:
I am not involved in a theological or biblical debate between two Christians. I doubt you attacked his religious testimony for being a paid sponsor of Donald Trump, a man who said and did far more heretical and unchristian things than Warnock.
– Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) April 5, 2021
Heretic means one who teaches heresy. Heresy is a teaching that contradicts biblical Christianity.
To say he is a heretic is like saying he is a senator.
Take your own advice and stay away from theological debate unless you sincerely want to learn biblical truth.
– Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) April 5, 2021
Joy Reid also pushed back against Ellis’ attack:
This woman calls the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church – the church of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – literally a heretic. That actually happened today. Madame, I will take @ ReverendWarnock as a pastor and scholar on the word of you if you don’t mind. https://t.co/xia6HjwDCG
– Joy-Ann Pro-Democracy & Masks Reid (@JoyAnnReid) April 4, 2021
Sorry, but what are your testimonials to discuss theology with an actual pastor? Defending Donald Trump, the golden idol of the right, when he lied to his followers to fight them? https://t.co/MeD7Xjte7n
– Joy-Ann Pro-Democracy & Masks Reid (@JoyAnnReid) April 5, 2021
If you are an idolatrous worshiper of Donald Trump, your thoughts on biblical Christianity will be received with a huge pound of salt by people reasonably familiar with the gospel. Just so you know
– Joy-Ann Pro-Democracy & Masks Reid (@JoyAnnReid) April 5, 2021
And then Ellis attacked both Hasan and Reid as “leftists who don’t even pretend to be Christians”.
Leftists who don’t even pretend to be Christians (like @JoyAnnReid and @mehdirhasan) defend Warnock’s heresy just because he’s a Dem.
They purposely confuse supporting Trump with worshiping Trump because their god and idol is the government.
Jesus is the only true Lord and Savior.
– Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) April 5, 2021
Reid’s Christian faith is out of question, and Hasan is a Muslim. Neither pretend to “pretend”. But Ellis’ attack is bigger than against the MSNBC hosts or “links”.
The message Ellis is sending, whether she wanted it or not, is that in America you either have to be a right-wing Christian or “pretend” to be one – which goes against everything our founders stood for. She attacks a person who has spoken openly about their Islamic faith as someone who doesn’t even pretend to be a Christian, as if pretending to be a Christian is something people should – or must do – in Ellis’ America .
What about people without religious beliefs? What about atheists? Agnostic? What about people who are spiritual but not religious? Or people who believe in God, a god or gods, but not an organized religion? Or people of different beliefs like Hasan? What about people of the Jewish faith? Or other beliefs?
Last week, Gallup reported that “American church membership has continued to decline over the past year, falling below 50 percent for the first time in Gallup’s eight-decade trend. In 2020, 47% of Americans reported belonging to a church, synagogue, or mosque, up from 50% in 2018 and 70% in 1999. “
Are they not acceptable to Ellis?
Why does someone have to pretend to be a Christian to be acceptable to Ellis and religious law? Have many of them distorted the Christian faith, used it as a sword, shield, and for political gain without practicing its core tenets?
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