Annointing Trump King

MEMES, whatever they may be, proliferate, flourish, and malinger on the internet, spreading like bacterial plagues, bad rumors, or, in the current vernacular, viruses. Among the politically conservative devoutly evangelical community, it has recently become meme-ified that Donald J. Trump has been anointed by almighty god to be the king of the United States of America. This, because in Isaiah 45 it says that Cyrus shall become king of Babylon, and shall free the Hebrew people. Get it? Forty fifth chapter, forty fifth president? What greater proof does one need? It may have been H.L. Mencken who said: "The fools would be humorous were they not in such deadly earnest". How deadly their earnest will forever remain a mystery, but what is known is that the highly charged Christian will go to enormous lengths to find ways of applying predictions made in ancient manuscripts to contemporary events. This, notwithstanding the inconvenient fact that no prophecy in the bible has ever been verifiably shown to have come true, and that many can be verifiably demonstrated to have failed to come true, including a remarkable one made by the savior himself, that he would return within the lifetimes of his disciples. Unless one or more of the original twelve is still among us, as evangelicals could and well might claim in defense of their savior's perspicacity, that particular promise, like all the rest, turned out to be a non starter, as we like to say. It is the mental contortions themselves which become head scratchingly amusing. The formula is simple. First, you decide that the authors of ancient, primitive documents inf act transcribed the word of god into those documents. then comes the round hole square peg part; that of twisting and turning to find a fit, ancient to modern. We needn't burden ourselves with the unthinkable image of Donald trump being president for one more dreadful, chaotic, disastrous year, let alone king for the remainder of his life, limited though that con only be, since he is past seventy. What is most alarming is that the most patriotic among us are the most religiously fanatic, that they do not evidently see the constitutional incompatibility of the secular state and their personal religious beliefs, that they willingly would dispense with our cherished democracy if favor of a monarchy, and also that they would elevate to the monacrhy someone like Donald J. Trump.