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In their pell-mell rush to bow down before their
newly-crowned golden god Trump, some evangelicals who cannot
get near the temple courts of god Trump will stand outside
in the courtyards for hours and offer up strident praise of
god Trump.
Consider this: What is an evangelical and why are so
many evangelicals ostensibly turning their one remaining
good eye towards a Trump presidential run and why have they
chosen not to take out the cakes of wax that are in their
ears when it comes to either obeying man-made gods or, The
Word of God?
Supposedly, an evangelical is a person who has been
born again due to the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus
the Christ (Christ means, anointed one) and is filled with
the Holy Spirit who is to lead and guide evangelicals into
all truth.
An evangelical is a person who supposedly is not to be
so engaged in civic affairs that he strays from the commands
of his commander in chief, Jesus Christ.
He is supposed to keep his eyes on the prize and is not to
have a fervid and engulfing fascination with all things
material and political.
Jesus, when he stood before Pilate and before his
unjust crucifixion, clearly told Pilate and later his
disciples that this world was not his kingdom and his
followers were to keep their attention sighted on the
kingdom of God.
Apparently, many evangelicals did not read those
passages or they have foresworn it as being too timid and
mild for their tastes and they want bold political action
and they want it now!
Evangelicals, especially those described by political
pollsters as white, rural and without college degrees, want
an earthly king over their kingdom and god Trump fits their
bill.
Evangelicals are seemingly willing to cut their
moorings from the tenets of scripture if it means that they
can launch the career of god Trump and then latch their
hopes and dreams to his cruise liner and not to their dinghy
boats that are in perceived danger of capsizing.
No, evangelicals have made the conscious decision that
god Trump has the goods even if his history and background
is those of a person who in times past would be
shunned and rejected out of hand by evangelicals as being
inauthentic and "not one of us."
Not now. Trump, the new savior of evangelicals, is
hitting new highs in the polls that show that he is 'out
Christianizing' Ted Cruz insofar as talking the talk and
imitating the walk that causes many evangelicals to swoon
and wax wondrously about god Trump.
Evangelicals are quite willing to prostitute themselves
to god Trump if that means that their newly-fashioned god
will slam immigrants, promise to kick the stuffings out of
Obamacare, restore America's credibility to new heights and
build a wall along the US and Mexican border and have Mexico
pay for it!
Evangelicals are willing to blush shamelessly when
potty-mouth god Trump curses and rants and raves in their
very midst, but that is considered tolerable by a religious
group that now has no scruples about bedding down with a
thrice married-casino holding god.
I mean, after all, god Trump is showing John Wayne
traits and god Trump is willing to bomb the hell out of
ISIS! What more could your god do?
It matters not that god Trump profanely claims that he
has a great relationship with God yet he does not even know
how to recite the Book of Second Corinthians!
It does not matter that god Trump has belittled the
significance of the holy communion downgrading and dissing
the wafer and the wine.
So what that he does not believe in confessing his sins
to a holy God. As god Trump, he does not sin, so what is
there to confess?
Evangelicals, at one time, were the gold standard of
orthodox Biblical Christianity and their word meant
something. Not now. Not anymore.
Trump, their new god, has catered to their whims and
fears and god Trump gave trifle reference to God even when
he went to Liberty University in Virginia (the largest
Christian University in the world) and repeatedly cursed
before the entire student body!
So what. Whatever your god does, that is OK and as long
as that god is created in your image, you can put up with
that image and in retrospect...with yourself.
For god Trump to blatantly say that he could stand on
Fifth Avenue in New York City and shoot someone and even
then his followers would not leave him, only a god could do
that!
When Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty
University, seemingly with great joy and gladness, endorsed
god Trump for the White House, god Trump took this political
glory as his due and evangelical credibility fell another 10
points.
The golden blond hair god Trump is without any credible
evidence of knowing God or his Christ but to many
evangelicals, that is a mere trifle and of no concern. What
they are concerned about is their god Trump getting to the
White House so he can lord it over a broken Congress and a
Supreme Court, which to their liking, is out of control.
Trump, the god, promises the evangelicals that he can
deliver the goods since after all look at what he has
accomplished and he can do the same in the White House!
Does god Trump look to God for any direction or inspiration
or acknowledgement?
Only as little as possible and just enough to sugar coat his
skinny message of hubris but with no specific details that
would catch the eye of a sharp investigative reporter.
The discernment and wisdom of the evangelical community
has been blistered and fractured because they have sought
out a worldly leader to give them their promised land now
but they are still yet careful to give dutiful and vacuous
lip service to God in church on Sunday morning. Their
trump-shaped lips mouth God but their hearts are far from
him.
Let me give you a clue as to what God has done in
history past with reprobates and those who go 'a whoring'
after other gods.
He leaves them to their own devices and permits them to
have the fulfillment of their own moral choices; and lets
them drink from the broken cisterns of false gods until they
gag and cry out for real living water.
Evangelicals have profaned their faith and have shown
that they are naked and unafraid to kiss and hug god Trump
thinking that they can serve two masters but not knowing
that they will come to love one and to hate the other.
For the evangelicals who have not bowed their knees to
god Trump....Maranatha!
Contact Lafe Tolliver at
Tolliver@Juno.com
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