Trump as a career villain.

Rich Bad Boy

Born in 1946, released onto the environs of New York City, age 21, in 1967, Donald John Trump became easy to recognize as a rich guy with no scruples and no inherent human value. He etched an ugly arc of fraud, misogyny, barratry, sexual assault, rape, pederasty (several times a guest of Jeffrey Epstein at his Island of Jailbait Sex Slaves. “Author” of a ghost-written book full of platitudes and inconsistencies. Owner of a failed gambling casino. Owner of a failed air line – while walking away with that company’s employee retirement funds in his pockets.

Employer of “fixer” Michael Cohen, whose lies on behalf of “the boss” put him in prison. This same Cohen testified against Trump in the hush money trial; Trump’s attorney called Cohen the GLOAT, Greatest Liar Of All Time. Cohen’s position was that lying had landed him in jail; this time he would tell the truth. This put the title of GLOAT on Trump’s wide, rounded shoulders. The jury saw it that way.

Loser of sexual assault charges, his excuse being “she wasn’t my type” – so he only rapes women who are “his type.” Not persuasive, cost him a $5 million judgment. Repeated childish assaults on the honor of the offended woman bumped 5 to 83.

Booked into jail in Georgia for attempt to deliberately interfere with Georgia’s November 2020 vote tally; sold his mug shot to adoring fans.

Or in other words, Trump is zero saint, all sinner. Yet Trump’s base love him (more on that later) and, because they love him, like it when Fox paints him as Saint, and all who disagree with him as Deliberate Sinners. The fine brush and lush palette used to paint him thus consists of one camel hair (details count!) and every shade of innuendo and untruth that exists within the English language.

(more on that later) Trump’s ease of comportment, while his behaviors seldom rise above sleaze, free his fans; he brings out the worst side in his fans. They, liberated from opprobrium, feel better than they have since middle childhood. They feel Good Again – the real G A in MAGA.
But their need to feel at ease with their newly relaxed moral limits still needs the affirming support of the image of Trump As Saint.
Which Fox happily supplies.

 

 

Intelligent Design for Dummies, Part 2

Part 1 tries to establish that GOD’s Word is perfect and holy. We find, moreover, that GOD’s creation, the Universe, speaks to us continually and without words. It pours forth wordless speech night after night. How, then, should we “listen” to the skies?

And for that matter, how should we “listen” to the astounding riches of this one tiny “third rock from the sun” which Abraham knew as “heavens and earth” in terms of mountains, hills, valleys, plains, streams, lakes, and ocean. The bright, hot sun traverses the sky each day, then hides in a tent at night, made by GOD’s hands to shield it in the vastness of the starry sky.

Today Creation itself tells us that we live on a “thin flaky crust” atop thousands of miles of lava, itself surrounding a fifteen hundred mile sphere of iron. The iron’s internal flux generates a magnetic field that protects the  biosphere, and atmosphere, from the sun’s constant emission of charged particles. The thin places on this crust hold a soupcon of ocean. There are separate, unconnected thicker flakes (continents) which move. Every few hundred million years they collide into one great land mass, then diverge and form new continents that differ from the ones we know today.

GOD revealed Himself to Abraham as a loving parent, a commanding parent, who made the heaven and the earth to have a place for His children, we humans, to live and expand. Being Holy, GOD is beyond all human attempts to reconstruct, understand, or reverse engineer. The trinity? No explanation suffices to illustrate the internal workings of a Triune GOD. We know what GOD has said, and from this infer the Trinity. Period.

The sun does not, however, hide in a tent built by GOD’s hands. It is a star, just like the twinkling tiny lights that populate the night sky.  But it is eleven billion times closer than the closest night time star. It’s a “daytime” star, a million times the volume of this planet. It only appears to go around, because earth rotates. In addition, earth goes around the sun and that path defines our year.

No one can plumb GOD’s thinking here; but He is perfect and Holy. He does not lie, and the Universe that He created does not lie. We know these as perfectly true. Part 3 will address the consequences of these two great truths.