DONALD Trump’s faithful followers who also call themselves Christian — notably US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) — need to do a major moral re-think as to which fundamental values taught and practised by Jesus Christ they’re willing to uphold or ignore, personally though especially publicly.
Jesus fundamentally was about non-violence, genuine compassion and non-wealth. His teachings and practices epitomise so much of the primary component of socialism — do not hoard morbidly gratuitous wealth in the midst of poverty. He clearly would not tolerate the accumulation of tens of billions of dollars by individual people — especially while so many others go hungry and homeless.
While there are many Christians who have rejected Donald Trump and his politics (though mostly quietly), regardless of his tempting conservative politics and pro-life professions, there nonetheless remains a vocal and politically active ‘Christian’ element celebrating Trump conservatism.
Trump’s extensive disgraceful conduct appears to take a muted back seat to, perhaps most notably, his successful nominations of three conservative justices for the U.S. Supreme Court; and, from my understanding, he was strategically doing likewise with a number of lower courts.
Too many adherents of institutional Christianity — those ‘Christians’ most resistant to Christ’s fundamental teachings of non-violence, compassion and non-wealth — tend to insist upon creating their creator’s nature in their own fallible and often angry, vengeful image; for example, proclaiming at publicised protests that ‘God hates’ such-and-such group of people.
Often being the most vocal, they make very bad examples of Christ’s fundamental message, especially to the young and impressionable.
It could therefore be that many followers of such ‘Christianity’ find inconvenient, if not plainly annoying, trying to reconcile the conspicuous inconsistency in the fundamental nature of the New Testament’s Jesus with the wrathful, vengeful and even jealous nature of the Old Testament’s Creator. - Frank Sterle Jr
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