Waiting For The Anti-Trump Uproar From The Religious right

FEW PEOPLE HAVE EVER read the bible cover to cover. After all, it has something like eight hundred thousand words or more. But anyone who has knows what a cacophony this collection of manuscripts is, a hodge podge of different voices and many different unknown authors and editors. It has a little something for everyone. As mark Twain said, the Bible has some noble poetry, clever fables, some good common sense wisdom, a tremendous amount of violence and obscenity, and many contradictions, distortions, and outright lies. You have to sift through it all in careful detail in order to, as Thomas Jefferson said, extract the diamonds from the dung. The bible is the most important book ever written, a cultural treasure to non Christians, and sacred, God given truth, which must be obeyed by devout Christians. Both the Old and the new Testaments tell us to treat strangers as if they were family or old friends. Refugees are to be welcomed, and treated with dignity and generosity, according to Jesus. Hence, you might expect at any moment to be inundated in a cacophonous uproar emanating from the American Christian community, including the American conservative Christian community, since most American Christians seem to be politically conservative. The Bible is quite clear, and the American conservative Christian community is quite large, with tens of millions of born again evangelicals within. And, let's be honest, the American right wing Christian community is rarely, if ever, silent about anything, much less matters pertaining to Biblical morality and their faith. Right about now you'd almost expect a conservative Christian uproar in protest of President Trump's executive order banning refugees from our sacred soil, wouldn't you? Demonstrations all across the fruited plain, perhaps, with signs reading: "Give us your poor", and "Christians 4 refugees!". Perhaps yet another million member mob descending upon the nation's capitol, chanting "Jesus and God love us all. No wall, no wall!" That has a certain ring to it, don't you think? But if I were you, I wouldn't bother to turn on the news or hold my breath.