Fire and Gas, Mixing Strangely

THE BIZARRE AND UNHOLY ALLIANCE in American politics of the extreme right wing and the devout evangelical community defies reason. Devout Christianity plus right wing politics equals the Ku Klux Klan. If you don't think so, ask them. Ask the Klan. Conservative Christians should know where to find them. The Klan membership is very religiously devout, the most ardent Christians in the land, cross burning, and very, very conservative politically. Those who voted for Trump might as well sign up. The entire Christian conservative community should sign up. White bed sheets are cheap. Shouldn't the conservative community be atheistic, like, say, Ayn rand? Do guns and money really go well with Jesus? It seems doubtful that Jesus would be a staunch advocate of second amendment rights, or would advocate arming Christians with anything other than love and generosity. Anyone who thinks that Jesus encouraged people to work hard, grow personal wealth, and profit personally from business enterprise is not reading the same gospels I am. Render unto Caesar and give unto the poor sounds more like Bernie Sanders socialism than Donald J. Trump capitalism, doesn't it? Instead we have the devout votaries at Liberty University, for example, endorsing Trump, the self proclaimed sexual predator, Trump the billionaire. Christ the billionaire? Christ, the denigration monger of Christians like Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions? The conservative Christians are more closely following Adam Smith than Jesus of Nazareth. Not that there is anything wrong with Adam Smith, other than the fact that most conservative Christians have never heard of him nor read his "Bible of capitalism", which clearly says that not only should capitalism produce equal opportunity, but equal outcomes also. Adam Smith, the intellectual father of capitalism, also says that the government should help the poor. That idea would be a hard sell to Christian conservatives, who are repulsed by the idea that government should ever do anything to help anybody.