Here's Why Big Christianity Will Back Trump and Republicans Forever

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14. A slightly different personal perspective on the same theme

It is not illogical that the Right has been able to co opt big religion. I believe that the same personal characteristics that allow someone to follow a god, based solely upon faith, are more likely to allow them to be taken in by powerful mortal personalities. .

Religion is based upon an singular all powerful figure that requires absolute trust and obedience and demands constant praise and attention. It is a deadly sin to question the actions of their god. For whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Some of the more successful mega churches promise not only immortality, but great wealth if you believe and obey. If a religious believer falls victim to some unfortunate situation, it is not because God failed to protect them, but because they somehow failed to live up to God's expectation of them. God moves in mysterious ways, not to be understood by mortal men, but to be accepted without question. "It was God's will, and he is in a better place."

When the political "good book" (the modern right wing press) gave us Trump, he was to be accepted based not on his past performance, not upon his character or judgement, not upon his moral failings or lack of political experience but upon faith that he would "Make America Great Again." It was an offer that the people who thought that the left had damaged and diminished the American vision of truth and justice just could not refuse. Anyone who questions Trump's actions is a heretic, to be scorned and shamed and exiled. They are sheep and idiots unable to see The Truth and destined for failure and ignominy. I mean, for God in Heaven's sake they put a black man in the White House.


If the economy or the health of the nation fails, it will not be Trump's fault, but the fault of those who did not sufficiently believe in him, those who questioned his judgement, those who failed to carry out his vision and those who stabbed him in the back. The fault of those who persecuted him. For Trump's believers, it is a simple proposition of "Trump said it, I believe it, and that is the end of it."

It is a dangerous time.