“A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.”

Bertrand Russell

 

I attended Church up until I was approximately 14 or 15 years old. My family moved sometimes two or three times per year & I went to a variety of Christian denominations’ churches not knowing or caring about what denomination they were. I enjoyed Sunday School for the same reason I enjoyed school i.e., because I have loved learning all my life.

 

But I stopped attending Church as I matured & began to see the glaring contradictions between what they preached & what they practiced. I am now 68 years old & my distrust and disrespect for nearly every self-professed Christian I have met in my life has only confirmed my suspicions all those years ago.

 

And the fact that somewhere around 90% of America’s evangelicals support & believe in Donald Trump to this very day, is the elephant in the room & proves how intolerable, sinful, & wicked these faux “Christians,” actually are. Note: this matches the percentage of Americans who voted for Trump.

 

For those of you who may not be aware of the supposed values & principles of those who profess to be Christians are, here is a brief primer.

 

Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount,” encapsulated these principles in a simple, clear, & concise manner and are the bedrock of what Christianity is supposed to represent. I feel you can break it down even further into two words: Compassion & Empathy!

 

Moreover, he was speaking about the poor, the starving, the homeless, the sick, the lepers, the prostitutes, etc.

 

³Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
⁴Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
⁵Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the Earth.
⁶Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be satisfied.
⁷Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
⁸Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
⁹Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
¹⁰Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

 

In the Book of Luke, it was laid-out even clearer;

 

“Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
²¹Blessed are you who hunger now,
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
²²Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.

 

And here is what Jesus’ thought of the rich, the Donald Trumps of his day;

 

²⁴“But woe to you who are rich,
for you have already received your comfort.
²⁵Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.
²⁶Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.

 

So, your phony “Christians,” who claim to be so righteous & superior to the rest of us are in effect worshipping that “golden calf” that God warned you about, a golden orangutan with a sprayed-on orangish tan by the name of Donald Trump.

 

Here’s an off the top of my head list of Trump’s immoral beliefs & practices, well, those that I can think of right now.

 

1. He directed his administration to cruelly separate families at the Mexico/U.S. border, lock the children up in separate caged cells, & losing track of parents for hundreds, if not thousands of scared to death children.

   

2. He bragged on national television that he was free to grab women by their genitals whenever he felt like it.
3. He believed because he was the “owner” of a few beauty pageants, he could walk into their dressing-rooms whenever he wanted to, knowing that many, if not most of them would be nude or semi-nude.
4. As president, he had the most powerful “bully pulpit,” in the world & throughout his life, he has preached hate, fear, prejudice, & racial divide. And to a much lesser degree now that he’s no longer president, he continues to rip-apart the fragile, social fabric we once had. We are now a divided nation close to what we had just before the Civil War broke out.</li>
5. He absolutely fawned over the cruelest, the most vicious authoritarian leaders/dictators in power today.
6. He gave the 1%, America’s richest citizens a massive tax break—yeah, even those who in effect paid no taxes.
7. His vicious & deranged destruction of every program that had Obama’s signature on it, has seriously hurt the poorest amongst us i.e., shutting-down the White House program for dealing with a pandemic.</li>
8. Perhaps as many as 900,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, & the majority of those poor souls died needlessly because Trump personally mocked & dismissed the CDS’s repeated warnings & called for the wearing of masks, social distancing, etc.
9. Trump’s vitriolic rhetoric has inspired mass killings like in El Paso, Texas where a psychotic, Trump fan massacred something like 20 or so, poor Mexicans in a Walmart. Lately we’re witnessing vicious, physical assaults on elderly Asian women, some Anti-Jewish attacks, etc. not to mention Trump’s obsession/desire to deport every Arab or Muslim in America. Strange though how he loves to suck up to the Oil sheiks?

 

Well, I could go on & on and if you still defend Trump knowing/accepting this handful of facts, you are obviously too far gone to be “saved,” from your own willful ignorance.

 

Yep! It takes a very sick & perverted mind & spirit to ignore contradictions between Trump’s behavior & Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount.” Maybe they do see the hypocrisy so glaringly-bright that it outshines the Sun but are de facto praying for the end of the world i.e., Armageddon?

 

They love to portray themselves as the innocent victims of the secular humanists, the democrats, the liberals, etc. but again, you’d have to be blind not to see that it is them, the phony “Christians,” who are constantly attacking the rest of us.

 

I sincerely believe that these wolves in sheep’s clothing would love nothing more than to see America turned into a slight variation of the Taliban. Perhaps the Grand Chess Masters are deliberately stoking these religious wild-fires to distract us while they continue to rob humanity of the basic necessities of life like water, food, shelter?

P.S. To break it down even more & reiterate what Christian values are about, they are about living with these values in your heart & practicing them. (generosity, courage, love, respect, hope, & peace)

—Rob DeLoss, Gold Beach, OR May 27, 2021