2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.”
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The crowd knew well of Donald Trumps life, his repeated adulteries, which far from asking for forgiveness he boasted about on the air. They also knew that for most of his life he had been in favor of Abortions, Pro-life, or in their perspective, allowing the murder of unborn babies. But none of this mattered at all.
Trump has done what could not have been done by any atheists, humanist or progressive. He has ripped off the facade of the Christian Right having anything to do with the teaching of Jesus Christ. What it has evolved to in this country is a special interest group, that along with all organizations that say the magic words “I am a Religion” are given tax subsidies. And if it’s the Religion of the Majority the right to allow prayers in Government legislatures.
What they have not be allowed to do in order to retain these benefits is to be overtly political, to endorse a given party or candidate. This is basic to the rationale of government subsidizing of and support religion, in that it transcends these secular mundane battles, to look to higher principle of unification. loving one’s neighbor and being responsible to a higher moral authority.
Donald Trump, being what he is, is oblivious to his principle, and so as a special bonus for the Christian right’s ignoring that his life is the antithesis of Christianity, promised them he will as President allow churches to become overtly and blatantly promoters of a chosen political movement. Under a Trump presidency, the organized Christian religion in America will be part of the the Trumpian regime, with the legal right to preach the message that Christianity is engaged in a war, not with the Devil, but that other deceiver, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.
I realize that it’s difficult for readers here to handle more condemnations of Trump destroying the core values of this country, but this should be a meaningful landmark in his quest to change the essence of this country. His clarion warning against outsiders, Muslims, Mexicans, Blacks and Asians; his opposition to the movement to replace the wars of the previous two centuries with a developing openness to free trade in commerce and ideas has now been extended. This meeting, this secret meeting, was his message to Christians that even though he isn’t a very good one, he wants them in his coalition.
Mike Huckabee was the M.C of this event, and said words to the effect, “We certainly would not be considering you to be a pastor at one of our Churches.” This was acknowledged with laughter from the crowd meaning that we know you are no model of Christianity and maybe not even “born again.” But, so what. They did not want that from from Donald Trump. The deal was we will support you, if you give us even more power. We, with the help of your Supreme Court, will be allowed to infiltrate public schools and local city councils, and plant the symbols of Christianity, which means our Church will subtly become what America is.
We will be closer to being like Saudi Arabia, and like Turkey as the current neo-Islamist President is pursuing for his country. This is the meaning of Tuesday’s secret meeting, that if Trump becomes President will go down in history as one of the markers in his path of transforming this ostensibly secular democracy into something very different.