The current state of presidential politics should be a source of solace for those of us who aspire to be decent folks yet occasionally stray from the path of righteousness.
By the neo-Christian relaxed standards of moral decency, embodied in their idolatry of our current president, we who are merely low-caliber sinners pale in comparison. Ironically, when seeking a moral equivalent to President Donald Trump, their Lord Jesus is the last to come to mind.
A reading of the Holy Scriptures should also be troubling for the billionaire Trump. In the Gospel of Matthew, it says, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." Trump would do well to enlist genetic scientists to develop an extremely small subspecies of camel.
Space does not permit an enumeration of all the transgressions now casually dismissed, thanks to Trump, by our Christian brethren. It seems now that even if you are someone crude and vainglorious, someone who surrounds yourself with scoundrels, someone who has had multiple marriages and paramours that you've paid for their silence, someone who makes a daily practice of lying, and someone who despises anyone critical of themself, the new Christian standards of permissible behavior offer you reassurance. You may now dispel your worries about spending an eternity in a fiery pit full of serpents and cloven-hoofed demons.
Maury Strand
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Duluth
