Progressive faith leaders on Thursday knocked President Trump Donald John TrumpBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Military leaders asked about using heat ray on protesters outside White House: report Powell warns failure to reach COVID-19 deal could 'scar and damage' economy MORE for criticizing the National Prayer Breakfast’s keynote speaker’s advice to “love your enemies.”

Arthur Brooks, a Harvard Kennedy School professor, told those attending the annual event in Washington to “love your enemies” and cast aside hatred, to which the president responded, “Arthur, I don’t know if I agree with you.”

Brooks had asked the crowd during his speech, "How many of you love somebody with whom you disagree politically?” Most people in the audience raised their hands, but Trump did not.

Arthur Brooks, National Prayer Breakfast Keynote Speaker: "How many of you love somebody with whom you disagree politically?"



*President Trump does not raise hand*



Brooks: "I'm going to round that off to 100%." pic.twitter.com/s6ljUg24as — The Hill (@thehill) February 6, 2020

"I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong,” Trump said during his speech, a day after the Senate acquitted him of two impeachment charges. “Nor do I like people who say, 'I pray for you' when they know that that's not so. So many people have been hurt and we can't let that go on."

Progressive faith leaders condemned Trump for disagreeing with one of Jesus’s most famous teachings.

Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of the Catholic social justice group Network, said Trump's comments showed a “level of candor” when he insinuated he would not love all his enemies.

“This, to me, was a transactional moment to get the white evangelical vote,” she said. “So the prayer breakfast became yet another transactional moment, which saddened me.”

Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, a fellow for the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center for American Progress, said Trump “seemed to be very bothered by Jesus’s commandment to ‘love our enemies.’”

“He is the total antithesis of what it means to follow Jesus,” Graves-Fitzsimmons added.

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He said Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiPowell warns failure to reach COVID-19 deal could 'scar and damage' economy Overnight Defense: House to vote on military justice bill spurred by Vanessa Guillén death | Biden courts veterans after Trump's military controversies Intelligence chief says Congress will get some in-person election security briefings MORE (D-Calif.) has demonstrated the teaching by consistently saying she prays for Trump.

Graves-Fitzsimmons said on a press call that he “found it remarkable that the president stood up and dismissed” Pelosi.

During his comments at the breakfast, Trump swiped at Sen. Mitt Romney Willard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyThe Memo: Warning signs flash for Trump on debates GOP votes to authorize subpoenas, depositions in Obama-era probe Overnight Defense: Trump hosts Israel, UAE, Bahrain for historic signing l Air Force reveals it secretly built and flew new fighter jet l Coronavirus creates delay in Pentagon research for alternative to 'forever chemicals' MORE (R-Utah), who broke with his party and voted to convict the president on abuse of power, and Pelosi for invoking their religion during his impeachment proceedings.

-Updated 3 p.m.