The Moral Awakening That Needs To Accompany No Kings Protest

Reverend Rodney Williams told our leaders they have failed not only as leaders, but at being decent, loving human beings and called for a moral awakening.

You don’t have to be religious to be taken to church. And today, Reverend Rodney Williams took an enthusiastic No Kings crowd in Kansas City, Missouri to church, warning that America is in a moral crisis.

“I am compelled to remind and to inform, not some but all of our elected officials, our legislative body, that you have failed as national and local leaders. And even more tragic, you have failed at being decent, loving human beings,” Reverend Williams, pastor of Swope Parkway United Christian Church and Chair of the Religious Caucus of the Missouri NAACP, preached in a passionate sermon criticizing the current state of American leadership and society.

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He called for a moral awakening against evil.

“America is in a moral crisis, and if there was ever time when people of faith, people of good conscience, need to have a voice and say, no kings in America, the time is now,” he said.

He cited Amos 5:24, emphasizing the need for justice and righteousness. Williams accused elected officials of failing as leaders and human beings, citing America’s caste system and white Christian nationalism as root causes of societal ills. He linked the current administration’s actions to the recycling of evil and called for a moral awakening, urging the people to fight against racism, homophobia, and xenophobia, and to reject the idea of kings in America.

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Williams: You look so beautiful to me, looking at the different races, different languages, the diversity that America looks like. This is what America looks like. But I do have a scripture that I would like to share with you. The scripture comes from the prophet Amos, chapter five, verse 24 it reads like this, ‘But let justice run down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.’

Based on what the prophet Amos has said, I am compelled to remind and to inform, not some but all of our elected officials, our legislative body, that you have failed as national and local leaders. And even more tragic, you have failed at being decent, loving human beings. And the reason that you have failed is you have not allowed the streams of justice to flow into the lives of every America.

America is in trouble. Most of the trouble is because America is a caste system, a caste system which is supported by white Christian nationalism, racism undergirded by evil.

Years ago, Martin Luther King Junior published a sermon the recycling of evil. We see the recycling of evil through this president, who is under the illusion that he is a king.