Between Fayetteville and Wilmington, NC sits the town of White Lake. There, Lake Church’s profess mission is “To share the love of Christ Here, There, and Everywhere!”
Somehow, I have my doubts. On 6/30/24, that house of purportedly loving worship provided a soapbox for the GOP’s nominee for governor, Mark ‘Women Shouldn’t Vote’ Robinson. Cloaked in Scripture that includes such values as “Love thy neighbor” (Leviticus 19:18, Matthew 22:39, Mark 12:31) and “the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13), he went stark, raving, bloody-minded berserk.
That is to say (see below), Trumpy. To wit:
Some folks need killing. It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of being
mean or spiteful*. It’s a matter of necessity.
Translation: those naughty non-Republicans are necessitating that we slaughter them! How dare they!
Robinson honks “It’s time… somebody” broached the “need” to impose life-or-death clout- as if no tusker had ever done so. In truth, at an NRA confab on 5/18/24, Trump did just that. Smearing President Biden for unspecified, chimerical crimes for which (according to Trump) any Republican would be electrocuted forthwith, Trump effectively called for Mr. Biden’s forced demise. (Sad.)
Doing so, the Ocher Ogre effectively set the pulpit for Robinson. (Shame on both of them; see “Trump flattened for talking about executing Biden,” Raw Story 5/19/24.)
Decked out as if Trump dressed him each morning, Robinson feels the felonious, lout-mothed, debauched, ceaselessly deceitful Donald (and perhaps other MAGA marvels) should be relied on to divine who on Earth is “wicked” enough to require life-ending intervention. Whoa. Let he who is without sin cast the first (Roger) Stone (see John 8:7); Trump, that ain’t!
For his own part, Robinson reportedly is being probed for falsifying reports (smacks of “Thou shalt not bear false witness,” Exodus 20:16, does it not?), and for other evident transgressions at a daycare center. (Again, to the nth degree, shame on him.)
He, Trump, Stone (who calls for electoral “violence” and “bloodshed”), Mike ‘Bullets or Ballots’ Huckabee and their bloodthirstily sanctimonious ilk will do well to read and heed Matthew 7:35. Five words: it’s the religious hypocrisy, stupid. With not one atom of ambiguity, the berserkers who style themselves ‘God’s Own Party’ epitomize Gospel-lambasted hypocrites who pick at specks in others’ eyes, while ignoring logs (or, in this case, whole clusters of fallen trees) in their own.
Far from embodying God’s glory, Trump’s troop falls light years, galaxies, dimensions shy. Its religiosity bespeaks all the genuineness of wads of $3 bills- and the security of bull elephants stampeding through china shops.
Based on what they’ve said (in recent weeks, months, and years), Trump’s Own Party is out for blood. To that end, it malignly plays God. As seen in the laudably successful Build Back Better approach, Dems create good utilitarian programs. Robinson, in stark contrast, openly limns, craves, seeks, and effectively apotheosizes GOP pogroms.
Plainly enough, cede the religion, lose the election. Damp the fervor, go down in November. Surrender moral high ground to bad actors (not to say evildoers) and live to regret it. (Maybe.)
*HEAVEN FORBID!!!