Awaiting the Lord and Trump

HE IS AWAITING the return of the Lord, a mythological anthropomorphic being who resides in the sky, and who, according to ancient literature, will come unexpectedly swooping down from the vault of heaven, some fine day, bringing not an olive branch in peace, but rather, a sword. The grand event is long overdue, two millennia in arrears, a broken promise, a lie. The promise was that it would occur within the lifetimes of those to whom the pledge was made, two thousand years ago. Still he waits, because his life on Earth is so hollow and meaningless that he longs to escape it. He has, so he says, a one way ticket to heaven. Predictably, he is a staunch supporter of President Trump, dismisses the president's criminality as a hoax, ignores Trump's vulgarity, vicious verbal attacks, pathological dishonesty. The misbehavior of the reprobate president is all a fabrication, a conspiracy of the mainstream liberal media and those insidious Democrats, and matters not, because the president is a self proclaimed Christian, God's appointed leader on Earth. An evangelical, he has convinced himself that everyone who does not share his devout religious views, does not accept the sword wielding Christ as personal Lord and savior, is doomed to spend eternity burning in hell. Quite a guy; taciturn, severe, personality free. His hatred and bitterness derive directly from his inability to achieve any sort of success. From his unpainted wooden shack the old evangelical curmudgeon brainwashes himself that his one way ticket to heaven is guaranteed. For him, Donald J. Trump is among America's greatest presidents, notwithstanding the dozens of women accusing the president of sexual misconduct, the Access Hollywood tape recording, which even Trump acknowledges, and all the rest. Right wing evangelical Christians have an amazing capacity to construct their own fantasy world, and to live security within it, to the exclusion of all reality. That reality, to the detriment of America and humanity, includes the massively corrupt and demonstrably incompetent Donald J. Trump, commander in chief, God's man on in the White House.