Expanding The Canon With Trump

SHELDON AND MIRIAM ADELSON own casinos, and billions of dollars. Their wealth, like that of Donald J. Trump, greatly exceeds any contributions they might have made to society. Like most wealthy people, they are quite conservative, politically, resistant to social change, quite content to retain the status quo, and quite willing to pay to do so. To this end they contribute lavishly to the campaigns of conservative politicians, including Donald Trump, even more than the Koch brothers, who are similarly inclined to contribute to conservative and libertarian politicians, but not to Donald Trump, whom, at last report, both Koch brothers thoroughly despise. The arrangement is lucrative for both the givers and the takers. Conservatives in Congress pass legislation reducing taxes on the wealthy, and people like the Koch brothers and the Adelsons (sons of Adel?)) help ensure the reelection of such politicians. So grateful is Mrs. Adelson, and so taken with Donald Trump, that she proposes adding to the Bible a "book of Trump". This is not fake news. She really means it. She seems to think that the new book would fit best into the old Testament, somewhere near the book of "Esther". The problem with this, of course, is that it would seemingly require the approval of the Judaic religion, as well as Christianity, whereas including the book of Trump in the New Testament would allow for the dispensing of Jewish approval, and would seemingly require only christian consent, which, considering Trump's popularity among American Christians, might fly in America, if nowhere else. Esther, you might recall, entails yet another of the many stories of ancient Hebrew captivity, this time in the hands of the Persians, in modern day Iran. The evil Persian king is bent on complete destruction of the Jewish people, but Esther, the heroine, comes to their rescue. It may be that Trump is widely seen among his supporters as a savior of Israel, he having moved the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, to the great approval of Israel and the American conservative evangelical Trump support base, and the great consternation of most of the rest of the world. Then too, having torn up a peace treaty with Iran, and having turned a peace with that country into a condition of near war, Trump has pleased Irael and his domestic supporters, by demonstrating his ostensible fearlessness towards, contempt for, and willingness to destroy Israels's prime enemy. So, perhaps somewhere near Esther is where Trump properly belongs. Interestingly, although it is not widely known, as the Old testament proceeds, God, who is mentioned quite often in Genesis, is mentioned less and less as the Hebrew bible proceeds, less often in each book, and by the time we arrive at the book of Esther, quite late in the collection of thirty nine books making up the Hebrew bible, God is not mentioned at all - not once - in the entire book of Esther, which deals exclusively with human activity. This fact has been researched and discussed much in academic circles. There are books dealing with this interesting phenomenon. It might be argued that if indeed there is a place for Donald J.Trump in the Bible, it would be a place from which God is absent, and in the Bible, such places are few and far between.