Trump and I Go Way Back<\\/h3>\\n In the last ten years, I\\u2019ve met Donald Trump in person twice, but he has played in the background of my life and formation as a minister for as long as I can remember. Growing up in New York State, newspapers portrayed him as a notorious and greedy real estate magnate. He was regularly in the headlines by the time I came of age. My world knew him as a womanizer, conman, money-hungry playboy, and club-crawling Bacchanalian. At the Holiness Bible College where I had initially prepared for ordination, no one could think of a less noble character.\\u00a0\\u00a0<\\/span><\\/p>\\n Back then, in the days before utterly politicized pulpits, the only time you\\u2019d hear the Trump Casino owner\\u2019s name used in an evangelical church was when a preacher was expositing scripture passages like, \\u201cFor the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil\\u201d (<\\/span>I Timothy 6:10<\\/span><\\/a>) and \\u201cit is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone rich to enter the kingdom of God.\\u201d (<\\/span>Matthew 19:24<\\/span><\\/a>) There was good reason for them to use Trump in this way.<\\/span><\\/p>\\n

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Throughout the 1980s and 90s, I used Donald Trump as an example in many sermons. Those mentions were not complimentary, however. What I saw Trump was then is what I see him as now: a perfect example of what it means not to live as a Christian.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump and I Go Way Back<\/h3>\n In the last ten years, I\u2019ve met Donald Trump in person twice, but he has played in the background of my life and formation as a minister for as long as I can remember. Growing up in New York State, newspapers portrayed him as a notorious and greedy real estate magnate. He was regularly in the headlines by the time I came of age. My world knew him as a womanizer, conman, money-hungry playboy, and club-crawling Bacchanalian. At the Holiness Bible College where I had initially prepared for ordination, no one could think of a less noble character.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Back then, in the days before utterly politicized pulpits, the only time you\u2019d hear the Trump Casino owner\u2019s name used in an evangelical church was when a preacher was expositing scripture passages like, \u201cFor the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil\u201d (<\/span>I Timothy 6:10<\/span><\/a>) and \u201cit is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone rich to enter the kingdom of God.\u201d (<\/span>Matthew 19:24<\/span><\/a>) There was good reason for them to use Trump in this way.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Critique Is Justified<\/h3>\n The Bible says God \u201chates\u201d seven things (<\/span>Proverbs 6:16-19<\/span><\/a>):<\/span><\/p>\n \nProud eyes<\/span><\/li>\nA lying tongue<\/span><\/li>\nHands that kill the guiltless<\/span><\/li>\nThe making of plans to do evil and the doing of it<\/span><\/li>\nA witness pouring out lies<\/span><\/li>\nStirring up conflict<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n I\u2019ve always thought Trump has long been guilty of six of these divinely detested traits and has every propensity to perpetrate the seventh. (While six are apparent, as for number 3 in the list, he said publicly, \u201cI could <\/span>stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody<\/span><\/a>, and I wouldn\u2019t lose any voters.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n Trump\u2019s Violations<\/h3>\n Trump regularly acts contrary to Jesus\u2019 teachings and actions and what Scripture commands. Let\u2019s look at a few instances:<\/span><\/p>\n** \nThe Bible says, \u201chumble yourselves\u201d and \u201cdo not think of yourself more highly than you ought.\u201d (<\/span>James 4:10<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Romans 12:3<\/span><\/a>). In flagrant contrast, Trump has repeatedly bragged about himself. In his Black Ink Column at MinnPost, award-winning journalist\u00a0<\/span>Eric Black documented just some of Trump\u2019s pompous, self-aggrandizing self-compliments.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Here are a few:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\u201cNo one reads the Bible more than me.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\u201cNobody knows more about taxes than me, maybe in the history of the world.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\u201cNobody\u2019s ever been more successful than me.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\u201cI can be more presidential than anybody. I would say more presidential, and I\u2019ve said this a couple of times, more presidential other than the great Abe Lincoln.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFailing the Enemies\u2019 Test<\/h3>\n In Jesus\u2019 Sermon on the Mount, during which He delivered the core of New Testament principles, God Incarnate admonishes, <\/span>\u201cYou have heard that it was said, \u2018Love your neighbor\u2019 and \u2018Hate your enemy.\u2019 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.\u201d (<\/span>Matthew 5:43-45<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n Instead of at least trying to achieve this virtuous quality, Donald Trump has consistently expressed unbridled contempt for those he considers his enemies. There seems to be no end to the hostility, verbal abuse, denigration, and even threats that Trump hurls against individuals he believes are against him. With help from\u00a0<\/span>researchers at the New York Times<\/span><\/a>, here are a few of the slurs that got him thrown off Twitter before Elon Musk\u2019s refashioned \u201cX\u201d reinstated the serial insulter:<\/span><\/p>\n \n\u201cCrazies\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n\u201cVicious\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n\u201cSick, very sick\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n\u201cTruly disgusting\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n\u201cTotally insane\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n\u201cThe greatest recruiting tool of ISIS\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n\u201cVermin\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Trump has called his former and very loyal Vice President, Mike Pence, whom\u00a0<\/span>he sees as traitorous for accepting the state-certified electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election<\/span><\/a>, \u201cdelusional,\u201d a \u201ccoward,\u201d and a \u201cp-ssy.\u201d Trump even defended the January 6 mob\u2019s cry to \u201chang Mike Pence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The Beat Goes On<\/h3>\n As for other Biblical mandates, in a continuous thread from the Mosaic Law to Jesus\u2019 Eschatological Discourse in\u00a0<\/span>Matthew 25<\/span><\/a>, God\u2019s people are commanded to show respect, compassion, and care for outsiders, refugees, those without homes, aliens, and migrants. In stark and offensive contrast, Trump has called immigrants, asylum seekers, and desperately displaced persons \u201cinvaders\u201d from \u201csh-t hole countries\u201d who are \u201cpoisoning the blood of our country.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The True Character Test<\/h3>\n On discerning character, Jesus said, \u201cYou will know them by their fruits.\u201d (<\/span>Matthew 7:20<\/span><\/a>) In other words, look for the produce, what grows in their garden. Suppose the owner is cultivating love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control (<\/span>Galatians 5:22-23<\/span><\/a>). In that case, you can rest assured the garden\u2019s custodian is in sync with God\u2019s intention for human flourishing. These are the kind of people that will make what\u2019s around them better.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On the other hand, there is this warning from St. Paul:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBut understand this: In the last days, terrible times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!\u201d (<\/span>2 Timothy 3:1-5<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n Trump Opposite of All We Stand For<\/h3>\n Perhaps the most abject proof that Trump is antithetical to Christian mores, values, sensibilities, and discipleship is his most recent \u201cChristmas\u201d message, sent out during the sacred season of \u201c<\/span>peace and goodwill<\/span><\/a>\u201c:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Excusing the Inexcusable<\/h3>\n* Plenty of my old friends and colleagues from the religious right continue to make excuses for Trump\u2019s profane, caustic contumely. They brush it off as his having a bad day or being sick and tired of unjustified persecution. Reality is different, though. Trump\u2019s dysfunctional relationships with himself, his family, his business and political cohorts, and even his donors and voters exhibit lifelong patterns. He could change all of it if he wanted to, but he clearly does not.<\/span><\/p>\n For earnest Christians, Donald Trump indeed remains an example\u2013of everything opposite of what our faith seeks to promote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" *******Throughout the 1980s and 90s, I used Donald Trump as an example in many sermons. Those mentions were not complimentary, however. What I saw Trump was then is what I see him as now: a perfect example of what it means not to live as a Christian. 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