Impeached twice. Indicted 4 times, with 91 felony charges. A civil convicted rapist. The most prolific liar on earth. Serial adulterer. Pussy grabber/Molester of women. Incestuous father. Selfish. Greedy. Vile. And the antithesis of everything Jesus stood for. Antichrist. In his rallies, he speaks like the dragon in Revelation 3, and rather than believe IN God, he thinks he IS God.
Yet despite all these overwhelmingly negative qualities, Donald Trump is hovering at a high just below 60 percent in the conservative race for president. Ironically, his most ardent defenders are those who CLAIM to be followers of Jesus yet seem unable to recognize how different Trump is from Jesus. Who could imagine that a man so devoid of humanity could ever make it this far? The fact that Evangelicals have so passionately embraced him has been the most confusing. And we ask ourselves, “How could anyone who calls themselves Christian possibly support this man?”
And that is the irony. To MAGA voters, Donald is God, the spitting image of the Evangelical God. No matter what he does, they only love him more. He is their messiah, and they worship him. Hell, they even created a golden idol of him. How can this be?
Let’s start at the top:
In the beginning, God told Adam and Eve NOT to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, and Evangelicals have been avoiding knowledge ever since.
~ Ben Tousey
The very first commandment MAGA God ever gave to his followers was that they should avoid knowledge, and Evangelicals have taken this to heart. They adamantly opposed science. Conservapedia calls Einstein’s Theory of Relativity a liberal plot. They deny climate change in the face of overwhelming evidence. They rally to have science thrown out of schools in favor of their own mythologies. In the face of overwhelming new awareness of how our universe works, they choose to remain ignorant.
Then there’s the whole ego thing. Here’s a quote from MAGA God:
I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Exodus 20:5
Sound familiar? Trump’s greatest complaint is: “They weren’t nice to me” (regardless of how he has treated them). The most profound example of this is his man crush on Putin. Despite Putin’s animosity toward America and human rights, his attempt to recover communism, his involvement in Syria, and his incursion into Ukraine, Donald loves him. Why? Because he misunderstood the way Putin used the word “brilliant” when talking about him and thinks that Putin complimented him.
Exodus 20, of course, is both the prologue too—and the Decalogue: what we call the Ten Commandments. These Commandments are what MAGA God throws down on Israel, demanding that Israel align themselves ONLY to him. He will “make Israel great again,” but they have to “submit” to him without question. And if they hurt his feelings in any way, he’ll exact revenge, even on the children, for the sins of the parents.
MAGA God is a narcissist and likes to be worshiped… demands to be worshiped. He willingly describes himself as “jealous” and provides a list of what he’s willing to do to those who don’t think he’s as great as he thinks he is—again, it involves the willingness to punish the children if the parents don’t love him enough.
This is also the attitude of Trump. He is intolerant of others and demands that he be the focus of our attention. This is exactly how MAGA God feels. Do NOT upstage the diva, or she will CUT you!
Then we have MAGA God’s xenophobia and genocidal tendencies, as made clear in the book of 1 Samuel:
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.
Donald Trump HATES Democrats. He HATES liberals. He HATES RINOs (Republicans in name only—as defined by him). He hates anybody who disagrees with him. And he hates anybody who questions him or dares to call him out on his many sins.
Like MAGA God, he views everyone who is not like him as an enemy and shows no compassion. Modern Americans find themselves both troubled and frightened by this, but this is the God that Evangelicals embrace, and his tactics are simply God’s way of purifying the land so that they can live under the theocracy they’ve been seeking for generations.
Then, of course, there’s Donald’s personal life: three wives, five children between the three, and a myriad of mistresses, aka “Biblical marriage.” Like Evangelical God, Donald is a misogynist and proud of it. A woman’s value is based solely on her ability to provide for the man. If she’s fat, ugly, or old, then she is worthless. Because Donald is the “man,” he gets to decide those characteristics of the woman that are important—regardless of whether or not any of those qualities are present in him.
To the woman, he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor, you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
Then there’s the whole “Law and order” thing that Donald so prominently talks about. God also talks about law and order—as seen in the Ten Commandments. Yet the laws don’t apply to him.
“You shall not murder.
“You shall not commit adultery.
“You shall not steal.
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
These are the very things that Donald does every day. His lies are so pervasive that we can’t even keep up with them. He hires people to work for him and then refuses to pay them for their services. His three marriages attest to his love of adultery. And once he starts pushing nuclear buttons and starting wars around the globe, people are going to die… millions of people are going to die.
This is Evangelical God: He demands 10 percent of everything you and I make, period… His guys at the top are well served, but the people at the bottom are struggling and suffering (but because they avoid knowledge, they don’t know why). He literally stole the land of Israel from its original inhabitants. We’ve already seen that he’s comfortable with killing men, women, children, and beasts. As to lying, well, MAGA God has surrogates who lie for him:
Therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee.
1 Kings 22:23
Ah, Lord GOD! Surely, thou hast greatly deceived this people.
Jeremiah 4:10
And here’s where the irony comes in. Evangelicals teach that there will be an antichrist who will deceive the people. Who will come in the name of God and wreak havoc upon the earth. They claim the world will be deceived. Only we’re not. We see Donald for who he truly is. It’s the Evangelicals, on the other hand, who are being deceived. They are opening their arms wide to embrace this beast, this antichrist, and the reasons are simple. He looks exactly like their own God. Because their God has associated knowledge with evil, they, too, associate knowledge with evil, and they celebrate Donny’s ignorance. But ultimately, it’s Donald’s embodiment of God’s petty and vindictive nature that has them so excited. If you ever want to bring an Evangelical to orgasm, simply tell them about all the people who are going to suffer and then go to hell. There’s not a box of Kleenex big enough to clean up after that.