The headline from The Christian Post jumped out at me this morning.
“Trump tells Christians their ‘religion will be in tatters’ if Biden wins: ‘We answer to God in Heaven'”
Sure, it’s a classic Trumpian scare tactic. But coming from him, that audacious claim literally drips with irony.
And if you are a true person of faith, it would seem to be more than a little blasphemous, perhaps even sacrilegious.
This grotesque utterance, after all, comes from a man who cheated on his pregnant wife with a porn star, sold autographed Bibles, bragged about grabbing women “by the p***y,” cheated students at his “university,” stiffed contractors, bankrupted every business venture he ever launched, stole top-secret government documents and refused to return them, committed bank fraud, lied about the 2020 election (don’t bother trying to rebut that; he lost some 60 challenges in court – some before judges he himself appointed) and God knows what else.
So, the man who never attends church, holds Bibles upside-down for a photo-op and promises “retribution” against all whom he perceives to have harmed him (the true Christian spirit would be forgiveness, would it not?) now invokes the will of the Almighty in wooing the evangelical vote.
What’s even more puzzling is how any person, capable of thinking form himself or herself, could ever fall for such claptrap. How could anyone who proclaims to possess a grain of faith twist their beliefs into rationalizing that this man is their salvation? It literally defies all logic. The man represents every one of the so-called seven deadly sins which a real believer abhors: greed, lust, pride, wrath, envy, gluttony and sloth. To insist on supporting this man, one must first lie to oneself.
Having said that, here’s another headline that caught my attention this morning:
“Paula White says Trump asked her what God thought about his presidential run”
I suppose Rev. White, a florida televangelist, communicates with God on a regular basis on elections. Maybe it’s to learn the odds in order to lay a heavy bet on the outcome of the election – all to benefit her City of Destiny Church, of course.
You see, she is one of Herr Trump’s “spiritual advisors.”
But then, so was Robert Morris, a founding pastor of Gateway Church in Dallas.
Well, he was the pastor until…well, I’ll let this headline from The Guardian explain it:
“Pastor and ex-Trump adviser resigns after admitting to child sexual abuse”
This occurred back in the 1980s and the church learned of it in 1987, it took a mere 37 years for the guilt-ridden Rev. Robert Morris to step down.
The child? She was 12 at the time.
Louisiana Voice 
Not long ago I read an article that claimed Christianity is in crisis. But it’s not Christianity that’s in crisis. It’s many Christians who are in crisis for elevating their politics above their faith and perverting their faith to justify it. Every time Trump speaks at some “Christian” event you can find a room full of these people.
The best statement I’ve seen about this from an unknown source:
“Trump was not God’s plan. If anything, he was God’s test and Evangelicals and Christians failed.”
I would not paint all Christians with this broad brush and wish the source had said “Evangelical Christians.”
P. S. I grew up in a time when evangelism was not considered a bad thing. Organizers have changed it to be the religion of hate from its ostensible altruism of the past.
Here’s another good one:
Any time religion gets in bed with secular politics the child never looks like God.”
Attributed to Joe Westbury, Baptist News Global, 1 June 2024
It too stupidifes me how anyone can fall for this man’s “claptrap.” It boggles my mind. There is no “logic” to it. It scares the bejabbers out of me to be living today and see how Hitler, Mussolini, Putin, and other such dictators were able to ascend to power with the support of what I used to think were sane and decent people. I never imagined I would be a witness in my lifetime, in this country, to how a populace could allow, out of blind stupidity and ignorance, the dismantling of a democratic government into an autocratic one without a shred of understanding that it was taking place.