A Viper, Among the Hypocrites

THE KING SNAKE, aka President Donald J. Trump, returns to his adoring den of vipers, aka Liberty University, home of the immoral minority, aka evangelical Christians. The evangelical Christian community gave their wholehearted support to Trump in his decidedly unchristian-like campaign for the presidency, the one in which you might recall he accused Ted Cruz, who actually is a christian, of being a liar, and in which a video was released in which the favorite of the Christian community proudly proclaimed himself to be a sexual predator. This is the epitome of the bizarre marriage of conservative politics and American Christiandom. Christianity, staunch defense of the second amendment, and staunch advocacy for free market capitalism. Jesus, guns, and money. Quite a combination. Among the most hypocritical political movements ever to arise in any self described democracy. The Trump foundation gives not a fig unto the poor, Trump himself is, for some reason, reluctant to show how he has given unto Caesar, and is apparently able to demonstrate to the complete satisfaction of many American Christians that he will somehow squeeze through the eye of the needle, and into heaven, having accumulated unto himself billions of dollars of mammon, much of it from the gambling industry. In the bible, Jesus admonishes people to not collect personal wealth, but rather, to distribute it to the poor. He further admonishes folks to pay taxes, and to refrain from immoral sexual behavior. At Liberty University, none of this matters, as long as Hillary Clinton, who had never had so much as a parking ticket or a divorce, is kept out of office. She is considered dangerous among conservative American Christians, because, hell, she might actually tax the wealthy and advocate for human dignity and equality, including the least among us, gay and transgender human beings.