Over the past ten years, I have read countless Evangelical blogs and websites that say Donald Trump is a Christian. For the life of me, I don’t understand how Evangelicals think Trump is a follower of Jesus. What evidence of faith are they privy to that the rest of us are not? Trump doesn’t go to church, read the Bible, or live by the precepts, teachings, and commands of the Word of God. In fact, his life is a repudiation of the teachings of Christ. Name one thing he has said or done consistent with the Bible’s teachings. The past two months have been one long “fuck you” to the Good Book’s words about immigrants, poverty, and ministering to the least of these.
If Trump is a Christian, the word loses all sense of meaning. He is a pathological liar, a bigot, a racist, and a misogynist. I have yet to see anything in Trump’s life that remotely suggests he is a Christian. It’s not that a president needs to be a Christian. They don’t. Most Americans value competency over faith. Trump uses religion as a tool to keep Evangelicals, conservative Catholics, and Mormons on his side. He doesn’t give a shit about Evangelicals themselves. The moment Evangelicals are no longer beneficial to his agenda, Trump will jettison them quicker than the sex he had with Stormy Daniels.
I wish Evangelicals would admit that the only reason they support Trump is that he supports their theocratic agenda. Instead of standing on moral and ethical principles, they have sold their souls for a bowl of pottage. If Jesus came back to earth today, I have no doubt he would rebuke Trump and the Evangelicals who support him. Of course, he’s not coming back, so it is left to those of us who have a clear-eyed view of the president to rebuke him and his Evangelical defenders.
Four decades ago, Evangelicals went nuts over a blow job, an intern, and a blue dress. Today, they have abandoned the teachings of Christ for the sake of political and cultural power. Such a Christianity is not only worthless, it’s harmful.
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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They are the new puritans infiltrating the government and their plans will end in failure just as the first Puritans did in the early years of this country. They will cause misery as they try to impose their will.
He seeks the RICH,INFLUENTIAL & THE GULLIBLE. If he thought that Satanists had lots of money, political power, influence, etc. he would show up at rallies wearing ties with pentagrams & Baphomet symbols, inverted crosses, lapel pins inscribed ” HAIL, SATAN ! “, ” 666 “,& such.
Or he would court Hindus at rallies displaying Hindu deities. He would pander to Wiccans. BUT ONLY if they made up a sizeable, influential voting block.
Or he’d try to woo people who believed in the existence of the planet Nibiru, the Anunnaki, ” ancient astronauts “, people believing that they’d been alien abductees, believers in Nephilim, reptilians disguised as humans.
In that respect, at least, HE’S NO FOOL. He would pursue any gullible group – as long as they had money 🤑💰 & influence.
I personally don’t care if Trump is a Christian or not. I have gotten over thinking that having the label of Christian embues one with special morality, goodness, etc.
I agree. I first voted in 1976. I voted for Carter because he was a professing Christian and a Southern Baptist. These days, religion doesn’t factor into my voting. I want the best person for the job.
They love him because he gave them permission to be blatant, out of the closet hypocrites. White Christian Evangelicals were always racist, sexist, and intolerant of anyone not of their church. They just had to hide it in the past.
Sadly, 😢😢I think you are right.
Trump is just like his good friend Vladimir Putin, who can be a neo-Facist Russian nationalist or a good old fashioned Soviet communist. It just depends on which authoritarian “ideology” furthers his goals.
Ironically, I think Trump can be played better by current far-left dictators like Xi in China or Dear Leader in North Korea than hardcore far right theocrats in Iran. I think that’s because Iranian leaders are so bound to their ideology that they can never say or do the things that can manipulate Trump’s ego, because “Allah”. But to an “ends justify the means” communist or Facist, being chummy with Trump is just part of a bigger strategy. That among other reasons is why I fear where we are heading as a nation.
If Trump can be said to follow the teachings of anybody, I would say that person is Machiavelli—whom, of course, he hasn’t read.
All he cares about are money and power. He will court whoever will help him further his interests and trample whoever won’t. Thus, he panders to Evangelical Christians, , conservative Catholics and Mormons, who are large, reliable voting blocs and oppresses trans people, who are less than one percent of the population.
Evangelicals love Trump because he makes them feel important and they have a right to rule over everyone else.
I looked up ” Integralism” which is the uniting Roman Catholic authority figures with Fascists. Think , Francisco Franco of Spain, and Jose’ Salazar of Portugal. Their crazy governments. While looking up Opus Dei, that term came up. Vance comes to mind. Pam Bondi, and Karolina Leavitt.
Unfortunately Yulya the Catholic Church has historically allied with far right Facist movements. In Spain, it was a reaction to persecution (the killing of priests, nuns and others who would not renounce their faith) by Soviet influenced elements of the Republican government.
Ironically, there was one exception where Franco himself persecuted and killed Catholic priests- those who were aligned with Basque separatists in the north of Spain. The Basque are a conservative culture but the fact that they wanted autonomy was too much for Franco, who was as much a nationalist as a Facist.
Pope Francis beatified the martyrs of the far left militias, but has yet to beatify the martyrs (who admittedly were fewer in number) of Franco.
Religious oppression is wrong, regardless of who is doing it. Whenever anyone brings up the persecution that led to the bigger persecution, they get accused of “both sides-ism” usually by the far left. But here’s the thing- both extremes of the right and left have their closet of horrors in history. Acknowledging that explains why a church would align with the lesser monster.
I’m still zen-hippie utopian enough to hope and envision a day where the devout Catholic can live in peace and partnership with the secular atheist, and vice versa. But to do that we have to acknowledge the past, all of it, and work to eliminate the cycle in the future. This is why Trump needs to go. He represents the worse of the revenge cycle of geo-politics.
The only thing Trump and I have in common is our rejection of religion. Yet I try to live a life based on acceptance, tolerance and moral decency while Trump embraces intolerance, hatred and moral rot. Having been a Christian in the past I can spot a fraud a mile away yet Trump to my knowledge has never claimed to be a Christian and most likely he does not have even the most basic understanding of Christian theology. He only cares that this is a powerful group that he can exploit and use to his benefit. So he opens the White House to grifters like Paula Jones and Franklin Graham who also make mockery of Christianity. Their disgusting transactional relationship should have Christians running for exits. Their failure to do so only confirms that this belief system is total bullshit.
Thanks Dave. I will tell you your attitude (and Bruce’s) towards folks like me is a lot more charitable than hard core Catholic and fundamentalist Protestants are towards people who are not religious and/or secular humanist.
I struggle often with this fact, for what it’s worth.