If I hear one more Evangelical claim that God anointed Donald Trump, I swear I’m gonna rapture myself.

It’s sinful.It’s blasphemous.It’s lousy evangelism.It’s terrible theology.It’s also just plain asinine.

The hypocrisy on display is historic: after spending years straining to find infinitesimal specks in Barack Obama’s eye that they could condemn as moral deal breakers, Conservative White Christians are now perfectly fine with Trump’s expansive, rotted, and reeking forest of immorality and lawlessness.

In fact, in the most dizzying display of theological spin doctoring, it is now precisely his ever-growing trail of personal toxic discharge that supposedly proves evidence of the Almighty’s hand in it all. After all, God uses flawed people.

So Trump’s porn star affairs, his rape adjudication, his mountain of sexual assault claims, his verbal obscenities, his disregard for the rule of law, his compulsive lying, his unrepentant racism, and his incessant attacks on marginalized communities are now unmistakable signs that the Lord is using this ignoramus President.

This is nonsense of Biblical proportions; to try to draw some line between Jesus of Nazareth and Donald of Mar-a-Lago is about as farcical as you can get without actually spontaneously combusting from the cognitive dissonance.

Dying to justify their own allegiances to Trump, Evangelicals have lumped him in with other famously flawed heroes of Scripture, suggesting he is actually God’s anointed, imperfect tool of salvation, in the tradition of the Old Testament.

(Well, God did apparently use the jawbone of an ass, so I guess there is precedent).

This sanctified retrofitting of this godless, loveless blight on the planet to any kind of providential intervention is the height of absurdity.

No, Donald Trump wasn’t anointed by God.He isn’t an instrument of Divine will.He isn’t Biblically hastening Armageddon or Jesus’ return.

He’s just a hateful, indecent, predatory fraud who is destroying the environment, stripping people of their human rights, and making America a global laughingstock.

His ascension is not prophetic but pathetic, the result of:

Russian interference,fake news,gerrymandering,voter suppression,Fox News brainwashing,Democratic stumbles,the votes of bigoted Evangelicals, whites terrified of losing market share, and third-party voters, and the inaction of millions of Americans who couldn’t be bothered to participate in one of the greatest responsibilities of living in a democracy.And ultimately, his unholy coronation is the fruit of the phobias, prejudices, and moral failures of tens of millions of cosplaying Christians.

That’s it.

No evidence of providence.No Divine messages deliveredNo Biblical prophecies fulfilled.No spiritual movements.

Just ordinary human beings who performed a grand act of collective stupidity.

This isn’t a mystery or a miracle, and it sure as hell isn’t God.

Trump Christians need to stop passing the buck to the Divine, and fully own the sinful compromises and rapist bedfellows they’ve been willing to make for Supreme Court seats, anti-choice legislation, weapon stockpiling, and a rapidly assembling white Evangelical theocracy..

God wasn’t generating conspiracy theories or showing up at his campaign rallies or stumping for him at nationwide crusades or using him as an expression of their misogyny.God didn’t vote for the guy who said he could grab women by the genitalia.God didn’t stand by the prolific felon.God didn’t go with the guy endorsed by the KKK, the Proud Boys, the Patriot Front, and the Nazi next door.God didn’t excuse the bankruptcies, overlook the affairs, and laugh off the racist remarks.

I’m pretty sure people did that; most of them, supposedly Christian people.

And God isn’t now justifying wasteful wars,defending the protection of pedophiles,or ignoring hundreds of missing immigrants,or turning a blind eye to Constitutional crises,or celebrating LGBTQ discrimination,or laughing off collusion, treason, and human rights atrocities.

Again, alleged Christians.We really should stop pretending God is responsible for this fast food dumpster fire when it’s clear whose hand is in it all.

This reality is the rotten fruit of misogyny,racism,nationalism, fear, xenophobia, and bigotry, all propagated by people who want God to consent to it all so they don’t have to deal with their own culpability or face their own repentance.

God didn’t anoint this monster. Like-hearted cosplaying Christians did.

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