Trump, Following Jesus

IN ORDER TO BE ANNOINTED presidential candidate of America's conservative Christian coalition, one must make the holy voyage to Virginia's Liberty University, a great bastion of the politically economically socially conservative Christian community, and present thyself for scrutiny, and ultimate acceptance, or rejection. Most recently it was Donald Trump's turn, and Jerry Falwell Junior introduced the Donald as a man who lives his life in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. Whether this means the nine billion dollar corporate capitalist Christ, or the build a wall to keep people out Christ, remains a bit vague, but on the whole it aint a bad way for a politician to kick off a campaign speech event, to be called, in effect, Christ-like by the host. Presumably, the Falwells, junior and senior, would argue that Trump's huge fortune is a divine reward for walking in the proper footsteps, that he creates jobs, enriches others, and so forth and so on. By being strict on Mexican illegal immigrants, Trump would be, most likely, using United States power as an arm of the Lord, according to the Falwells and America's christian conservatives, enabling people to remain in poverty, and thus became adequately motivated to find work, get on their feet, and succeed, without government ahdnouts across the border in good, clean, conservative republican America. You just never know how these conservative Christians think. They like guns, and American military might, and capitalism, even though the man from Galilee seemed to expouse voluntary poverty and dispensing with weapons, generally. Perhpas we'll have a race to the Christian finish, with Donald Trump and Ted Cruz trying to outdo the other in being deeply religious, pro gun rights, and capitalistic.