Today is Easter, the holiest day of the Christian religion.
It honors the day Christ returned from the dead after dying on the cross to redeem humanity for its sins.
This year it honors the Second Coming of Christ, also known as …
Are you really going to go there?
Well, yeah. This past Monday, Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social website that he had received a “beautiful” note from one of his followers saying how ironic it was that during the same week Jesus suffered his greatest persecution, the courts are trying to steal his property from him.
So it appears that Trump doesn’t just want to be president again. He apparently wants to be God … or at least Jesus.
What’s truly frightening about it is that a fairly large number of his Trumpanzees seem to agree with him, at least to the point of believing that Trump is God’s gift to America to save the country from the evil liberals.
If there’s one thing truly amazing about all of this, it’s that Trump is a different kind of politician than anything we have seen in recent years. In fact, he has probably had the most success of any American politician who posits himself as a quasi religious figure.
Based on some of his past statements, including from “The Art of the Deal,” Trump really doesn’t even believe in God. He wrote that being an atheist gave him an advantage in business deals with people who did believe. Recently people who call themselves evangelicals have said Trump has told them he was born again, but he has almost no knowledge at all of Christian theology or the Bible.
When asked his favorite Bible verse, he used to say “an eye for an eye,” but apparently someone clued him in that that’s not really a Christian verse. Now when he’s asked, he says there are no many wonderful ones that he could never pick a favorite.
It’s a shame people don’t press him on it.
I’d love to say forget favorites, just name one verse from the New Testament.
I would be willing to bet he couldn’t name even one and identify it properly.
And now he has taken the silliest step of all.
He’s selling Bibles.