“⁷ Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain. KJV* Exodus 20:7

“Something is happening here Mr Jones but I don’t know what it is”.

(In reading this posting please do not get your exercise jumping to conclusions – this article has not been written to align Left or Right. Christian truth can and must be freed from Right – Left captivity . When Jesus spoke in his day he often offended the Zealots, the Pharisees, and the Sadducees but called the humble of heart to open to the light truth and way of faith).

One of the pastors connected to St John’s Episcopal Church (nicknamed The Presidents’ Church ) a woman, nailed it. Bob Dylan whined blending his harmonica and voice “something is happening here Mr Jones but I don’t know what it is”. But she did. When our president staged a photo op in front of the church holding the Bible, unwittingly, he incurred the condemnation of the third commandment of Ten Commandments.

Most comments about what was going down in front of St. John’s fell wide of the mark but this pastor (a Bishop) cut through the haze and named it. She said something to the effect that he had wrapped himself in the religious symbols of the church and the Bible for political purposes. I agree with her. I think one way to clarify what was going down in that photo op can be summarized by the third commandment ( of the Ten Commandments) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord your God in vain”. While she did not reference the third commandment, (I have lost the reference of her statement), without mentioning it, I believe she caught wind of the meaning of the profanity it addresses and applied it to what went down in front of St John Episcopal.