The morning of Easter is a uniquely joyful and peaceful moment. And yet that peace yesterday was shattered for many observant Christians by a statement that the President of the United States put out at 8.03 a.m. Eastern time on Easter morning.

Now, a lot of people reading that imagined, "Of course, this can't be real." Did the President of the United States really just write that? And it is real. It is maybe the most real thing this President has ever done and also the most revealing.

On every level, it is vile on every level. It begins with a promise to use the U.S. military, our military, to destroy civilian infrastructure in another country, which is to say to commit a war crime, a moral crime against the people of the country.

Bridges that people cross every day to go to school and work and to worship at church—there are over a million Christians in Iran. This is their Easter too. And power plants, not the power plants attached to missile factories. OK, but civilian power plants in a country of almost 100 million people.

What happens when it loses power? Well, people die. Babies connected to incubators die. People in hospitals die. And those are the first-level effects. And then people begin to starve. And then you have refugee crises. People leave the cities looking for food. And yes, they move into other countries in the region, in Europe, in the United States.

You cause chaos and death, mass suffering and death, when you do that. And we have done that. We have intentionally bombed civilian infrastructure in Iran. It's totally unacceptable.

None of the phony laws of some international body, but under moral law, God's law, killing noncombatants, people who did nothing wrong, who didn't choose this war. We're just people created by God.

That is immoral. That will never be moral. That can never be justified. That is always wrong. It can be expedient. We need to do this. It doesn't mean that's right. It's the most wrong thing.

And we should always remember that what we do will be done to us. Live by the destruction of civilian infrastructure, live by the killing of children, and live by the bombing of elementary schools and colleges.

And you will die and your children will die by those same things. That's just a fact. That's never not been true. We don't want it to be true. It's the last thing we want to be true. But it is nonetheless true.

For the president to say that and not bother to tell us it was an accident that we did this?

Well, one, it makes you reassess the bombing of the girls' school attached to the IRGC naval base where the children of Iranian military officers were incinerated in a bombing, not one but two, a double tap.

No American could ever believe the U.S. government would do that on purpose. I still don't believe it. But after this, you have to kind of wonder, how did that happen? Was it bad targeting coordinates given to us? We hope by Israel, another country. Maybe it wasn't.

Who knows at this point—for the President to call for that? But it's worth stopping and saying, "No, this is not acceptable under any circumstances. You haven't justified it. You couldn't justify it. And it can't be done in our name."

And the point, of course, is to get the Iranians to open the Strait of Hormuz. Well, no sane person thinks that's going to work.

At which point you have to ask, why would we do it anyway? Well, there are a bunch of possible reasons, but the darkest of all is for the sake of doing it. For the sake of killing, for the sake of exercising the most obvious form of power, which is extinguishing life.

The thrill is in the killing. The power is in the killing. The exertion of force is the point. You don't want to think that's why we're doing it.

But after a message like this, what could possibly be the reason? There's nobody who thinks that if we do this—and we pray we don't for our sake, as well as the sake of noncombatant, innocent Iranians. Nobody thinks this is going to work.

"Open the Fuckin’ Strait..." How dare you speak that way on Easter morning to the country? Who do you think you are? You're tweeting out the F word on Easter morning.

"You'll be living in hell." As if hell is a place. Hell is a condition. And this is an example of that condition.

"Just watch. Praise be to Allah." So obviously you're mocking the religion of Iran. If you seek a religious war, that's a good idea.

No decent person mocks other people's religions. You may have a problem with the theology. Presumably you do if it's not your religion. And you can explain what that is. But to mock other people's faith is to mock the idea of faith itself.

We should never mock that because at its core is the acknowledgement that we are not in charge of the universe. We did not build it. We won't be here at the end of it.

We can destroy life. We cannot create it because we are not God — the message of all faith.

The biggest picture level is the message in our Bible: which is you are not God. And only if you think you are, do you talk this way.

No president should mock Islam. That's not your job. This is not a theocracy.

We don't go to war with other theocracies to find out which theocracy is more effective.

We are not a theocracy, and God willing, we never will be because theocracies corrupt the religion.

This is a mockery, not just of Islam. It's a mockery of Christianity. To send out a tweet with the F word on Easter morning, promising the murder of civilians and then saying praise be to Allah without explaining any of it.

You are mocking me and every other Christian because we're Christians. We can't support that under any circumstances.

That doesn't mean you have to hate Trump or take the opposite position on every issue from Trump. You shouldn't. A lot of his positions are the right positions, but you cannot support that. That is evil.

That is an intentional desecration of beauty and truth, which is the definition of evil.

Hello — a very special hello — to Artemis II. Today, you've made history and made all of America really proud. Incredibly proud.

We have a lot of things to be proud of lately, but there's nothing like what you're doing, circling around the moon for the first time in more than a half a century and breaking the all-time record for the farthest distance from planet Earth.

Your mission paves the way for America's return to the lunar surface very soon. We're going all out; we're doing everything we can.

We'll plant our flag once again, and this time we won't just leave footprints, we'll establish a permanent presence on the moon, and we'll push on to Mars. That'll be very exciting. I'm waiting for that so much.

I'd love to be here, but maybe we won't quite make it in terms of timing, but we will be up in the moon, and that's gonna happen soon.

More than 14 million proud Iranians have so far registered to sacrifice their lives to defend Iran.

I too have been, am, and will remain devoted to giving my life for Iran.