I was raised to be a Christian, and though organized religion and I have our differences, a lot of what I learned in church stuck. Enough that I have to ask, can you vote for Trump and still call yourself a Christian?
I know we’re not supposed to judge. So here are the facts which Christians are being asked to ignore.
Trump has made his fortune and fame literally building golden idols. You can’t miss his ego. Insult him and he responds with vengeance. His homes and businesses are awash in gold. The Christmas ornaments he sells are gold versions of Trump Properties, or the simple round ones emblazoned with his name in Gold. Is Trump and his love of wealth the new reason for the season?
And let’s face it, he’s made himself the idol he wants us to worship to. It’s not just a new America he envisions, it’s a new Christianity, stripped of the teachings of Jesus, because Trump has very little knowledge of the teachings of the Bible. Though he’s making a profit hawking his own Bibles. Something about money in the temple comes to mind …
Over the past week I’ve actually been listening to Trump and his minions. They’ve painted Harris as a prostitute, a loose woman, they even ran an ad where she was called a … well I can’t say it on Facebook. Starts with a C and typically when you call a woman that to her face it ends in a slap, tears or both. Trump has the strong support of white males, a demographic known for standing up for a woman being disparaged. Where are they now? The ones I see are laughing and cheering when he does it.
What I come away with, is if I talked about any woman around my mother like he talks about Harris, she’d slap my face. Then dad would have taken a crack at me. We’re supposed to honor our mothers and fathers, not make them ashamed of us.
And if you’re going to besmirch either for their sexual past, I’d think that’s on election Trump would win pants down.
Trump is after all, a proud playboy and a convicted sex offender. I know, some of you don’t believe he did to her exactly what he said he does in that video … you know the one. But the standard of law he was convicted under bears a remarkable similarity to ancient Israeli law, including the financial penalty. By Biblical standards, Trump is guilty. In that situation, one should show some remorse. Instead he attacked the woman verbally who he was convicted of attacking sexually. Why exactly do we excuse this one as Christians?
Then there’s this …
1. Trump is a social liberal. He always has been. He dodged the draft in Vietnam, but his own personal Vietnam he says was trying to avoid V.D. in New York’s social scene. He’s an adulterer, so chalk up that violation of the Ten Commandments. You heard the video, which he excused as locker room talk. A couple weeks back he exposed Arnold Palmer’s genitalia to an audience of billions, which is more locker room talk. If a person changes by finding God, it should show in their actions, shouldn’t they?
2. When he stood on the stage with Elon Musk, those two men have had 17 kids with 5 women. True, with Trump the two women were wives (one of whom claimed he sexually assaulted her). The most recent wife wouldn’t be allowed citizenship under Trump’s proposed immigration laws. Musk doesn’t bother with marriage for the mothers of his kids any more.
3. Trump lies incessantly, and without giving thought to the consequences. Even Republicans have said his lies have made recovering from the last two hurricanes more difficult, and put people’s lives in danger. His own people try to excuse it … “you can’t trust what he says. It’s what he means.” I’m sorry, I want a president who I can trust what he says. Let’s see, lying, bearing false witness is one of the Ten Commandments. If he opened his mouth today, odds are he broke that one.
4. Abortion? He appointed Supreme Court Justices who have so far kept him out of prison, and will be instrumental in clearing the way for the government he envisions. And who also overturned Roe v. Wade. That didn’t make abortion illegal, just left it to the states. Which as Trump says, is how it should be. He’s fully aware that when a state passes a measure supporting abortion, which is happening all over the country, it’s further entrenched in law than it was with Roe v Wade. Congress could draft legislation outlawing abortion, but it would likely never pass. And if it did, Trump has already said he’s veto it. He’s no friend to the pro life movement.
5. Project 25 is like the Sears and Roebuck catalog for Christians. Trump has distanced himself from it over and over again. Well before the cock crowed three times. He helped to get it started to get your vote, then ran from it when it ate into his centrist base,
6. I’ve heard people say Trump was ordained by God by sparing his life. Doesn’t that mean God guided the bullets away from the former president and into the bodies of others? Couldn’t he have just made his aim a little high, instead of off to the left?
That doesn’t sound like God to me. That sounds like a bad shot that killed an innocent person. And what do the two people who tried to assassinate Trump have in common? They were both former Trump supporters. Strange things happen when you stir up a hornet’s nest. The Biblical verse for this one would touch I believe on reaping what you sow.
When you literally demonize someone, as the Trump and his surrogates have done to Harris, you open the door to the army of crazies out there who now actually believe she’s the antichrist. He’s intentionally inflicting lethal danger on another person. I was talking to a guy from the neighborhood last week who told me he was in Ridgeway a few weeks back, where they were using photos of Harris for target practice. Are these the people Christians want to align themselves with?
How is that Christian? That’s turning very real barrels on your opponent. And all the time, he’s mocking her. Did Jesus do the mocking, or was it those who were driving him towards Calvary?
He played Christians like he plays anyone who trusts him. He’s the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing you were always warned about. The false prophet we were taught to beware. And if either of the two are the Antichrist, as Trump’s people has plainly stated, it’s not Harris. She’s just the poor unfortunate who found herself in the position to run against Trump. Whoever that turned out to be would have gotten this same treatment.
None of this even touches on his policies, which lack compassion, and he’s said he’d encourage the invasion of weaker countries by Russia, which leads to wholesale slaughter.
On the last Sabbath, to chalk up another commandment. Trump said “For the past nine years we have been fighting against the most sinister and corrupt forces on Earth.” Those forces are people who believe we are to love our neighbors, who turn the other cheek, the meek, the honest … the very foundation of what Christianity is supposed to be. Those people he rails against it the fifty percent of our country who don’t agree with him.
He once had a Vice President who stood with him, who from all appearances, has unshakable faith in his God, and his country. When Pence chose to honor his oath to God to uphold the constitution, and certify the vote, Trump supporters were looking to hang him. When Trump found out his VP’s life was in danger, his response was “so what?”
Trump had no problem turning away from his oath on the Bible to uphold the constitution, and the man who tried to make him see sense. Pence’s life meant nothing to him. You don’t see Pence on the stage this election, for Trump doesn’t want a person’s Christian beliefs stopping him from grabbing the ultimate in Earthly power.
I can’t believe that God has ordained Trump as our next president. But if he loses, I might be convinced the almighty had a hand in that.