I saw this the other day.
Serious question, Jim, but can you show me in the Bible where the Book of Trump is located, or where the Prophet Donald is mentioned, or perhaps even where a fourth, co-equal aspect has been added to the Trinity?
I thought not.
The Baptist in me still knows that none of that shit is in there, and that interpretations equating Trump with Cyrus and something something gazpacho are just made up whole-cloth by politicized Evangelicals who know their base is brainwashed and dumb.
If you still happen to need evidence that this Trump shit is a cult, I give you this fucking guy right here. Ex-Convict Jim Bakker, he of fraud and racketeering charges and financial crimes and homosexual affairs, who took a nationally known ministry and ran it into the ground before disgracing himself and ending up in prison. I was just a Christian kid growing up, at the time, and we all laughed at this motherfucker and his stupid Prosperity Gospel bullshit. 30 years ago we knew it was all a lie.
Yet he's still around and only a couple of the churches I attended as a kid...both Catholic ones...still are. Maybe that's part of the problem?
Personally, I don't get this stupid bullshit, because before he got killed I had no idea who that Iranian General was. In point of fact the only Iranian people I've ever known were the local doctor and his family in my small northern Michigan hometown when I was a teenager.
So basically, I've known a few of the people who Islamist nuts like General what's-his-name ran out of their own country.
They were refugees, there because of some program or other to provide medical care to under-served communities, and pretty secular. I kissed one of their daughters once. She was my friend, aside from that one time we mostly just loaned books back and forth and she hung out with my friend. She liked poetry and stuff like that, I was into fantasy and science fiction. It was cool, being that we were all nerds in an era when being one wasn't popular and the nearest book store in any direction was an hour's drive. Both she and my friend wanted to be teachers and my life's ambition was to serve in the military. I should add, this being the late 1980's and early 1990's we were all pretty much basic young conservatives.
These people don't care about that General. Hell, Trump could have drone-struck Amal the Goat Herder or Firoozeh the math teacher or Zahir the doctor and these idiots would have called it a win. They just want to see people die, it doesn't matter who as long as they belong to an out-group of some kind. And in fact, these damned people are still chest-thumping and baying for more blood.
How is any of that Christian?
Bitch, I've read the Bible. It took the Romans decades and multiple major wars to pacify ancient Israel. Hell I've read up on the history of modern Israel. The Israelis have engaged in their fair share of violence and war and done so well enough to have outlasted all of their neighbors, who have in fact all come at them at the same time more than once.
But more to the point, such a vicious, racist oversimplification of such a vastly complex region of our world does everybody a disservice. Are you an Evangelical or other Christian? A Jew? A Muslim? If you belong or have belonged to any of those faiths, your religion arose out of a deep dark well of Middle Eastern mythology that goes back further than the written word does, that was both influenced by and in turn influenced what we term as "Western" civilization enough to generally be included in it. Hell, many of the roots of modern Judaism were first grown in Mesopotamia, then a part of the Persian empire. Even the briefest summary description of the Middle East and its ancient and wondrous cultures and civilizations damned well ought to evoke awe in the reader. Its influence spread from Northern and Western Africa and Spain all the way to Indonesia, from sea to shining sea in a whole different context long before America was even thought of, and families have often lived in the same neighborhoods in places like Iran since...well, since before the United States of America was even a country.
But yeah, :Normal state of condition is war." How American of an assessment. I'll do ya one better; How much projection can you fit into six words?
People competent enough to develop their own ballistic missiles don't actually do stuff like that by accident, and apparently they warned the Iraqis...and indirectly us as well. This was a message, and that message was next time we won't miss and there will be no warning.
And of course, Trump World is trying to make all this sound like some kind of great victory for Trump. Of course, like Rick Wilson said last night, Washington D.C. could be a puddle of radioactive slag and these people would try and call it a win for Trump.
It's a cult.
There's something wrong with these people, and whatever you may think you're going to get out of it, you probably won't. It's not cute, or funny, or of some kind of partisan benefit to the greater glory of your tribe if these goddamn morons get us into a war and blow up a country or further damage our planet, you know, the only one we have right now.
There's nothing "Christian" or "Conservative" about any of this mess, and all it's going to do is destroy the Republican Party...and if we're not careful, the country or even our world right along with it. These fucking people are simply not competent.
This crap has to stop, and these people have to go, and it's just that goddamned simple. If you can't get that, or you think you'll get something from this mess, then fuck you.
If you're still a Trump Supporter after three years of this mess, you are deliberately disgracing yourself and your religion. If you are a Christian, you are denying Christ and worshiping a false god who openly breaks the Lord's commandments as if such were a good thing. I have nothing else to say to you but those two words.
Fuck. You.
This mess has to stop.
I can't make it any simpler than that.
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