Donald Trump Is a Sodomite

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Donald Trump Is a Sodomite



“His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often
in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.” ? Marcel
Proust

Donald Trump is a sodomite. Many people have been taught badly concerning
what Genesis 19 actually means, at least the traditional reading lacks
quality. We should not forget what one of our most insightful founding
fathers, Thomas Paine, argued in Common Sense, “A long habit of not
thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right,
and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the
tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” An important
theme throughout the Hebrew Bible, The Tanakh, is hospitality. If one reads
the texts closely, one finds that Abraham and Lot both show the “angels of
the Lord” hospitality while the other citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah did
not, and it was precisely this lack of hospitality that displeased the
angels and God. Of course, the traditional dogma is that the cities were
destroyed for homosexuality, but this reading lacks quality. The citizens
of those cities wanted to rape the angels, a horrible violation against
hospitality; rape is not a sex-act; rape is an act of violence. This theme
ties nicely with Hebrews 13:2 and Matthew 25:35, “For I was an hungred, and
ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and
ye took me in.”

The lack of hospitality is one of the more profound problems we have with
Donald Trump and religious leaders who support him. When Trump calls for a
wall to keep out our southern brothers and sisters, he wishes only to
punish the stranger, the exploited, to use them as a scapegoat for genuine
economic pain many Americans feel. If we genuinely cared for our brothers
and sisters, and we genuinely cared that they are powerless while seeking a
better life in a cruel world, we would punish those who exploit the
powerless, and by doing so we could easily improve labor conditions in
migrant countries and our own while bringing to light the exploitation of
hard-working migrants by a powerful and wealthy business class within our
own borders. If we punished the people who exploit the powerless, we would
see a precipitous decline in opposition to passing immigration reform.

Donald Trump is a manifestation of neo-liberalism’s economic failure and
liberalism’s epistemic failure; he is a high-priest of the abyss. Trump’s
embrace of laissez faire economic principles demonstrated by his constant
attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency coupled with his repeated
arguments that our wages are too high and must be driven down to compete
with China are all of the same cloth: an argument for unbridled,
unregulated capitalism. As Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first
Century has demonstrated, unregulated capitalism collapses on itself and
consumes the poor first, then the middle-class, and leads inevitably to a
revolution which destroys the culture so weak it could not manage its
economic health. It may be true that immigration drives down wages, but it
does so because immigrants are exploited by the powerful, and it is the
powerful we should be punishing for that exploitation. I have argued most
of my life that people should be about the business of building bridges
rather than walls. Trump’s wall is among the most un-Christian and stupid
proposals any American politician has suggested in the last 100 years. I am
amazed that so many people are even intrigued by this simplistic idea:
these are human beings in the twenty-first century. If a human comes to a
wall, there are options: go over, around, under, or through. Expecting a
wall to stop a human is profoundly stupid and yet about half of America is
entertaining it as an effective salve for the fear and pain many of them
feel. The commission for Christians is obvious: to love our neighbors as
ourselves — that principle is our sine qua non, without this, nothing. From
Franklin Graham to David Lane, Pat Robertson to Theodore Shoebat, Mike
Huckabee to Steven Anderson, Robert Jimenez to Jerry Falwell Jr. none of
these “Christians” have a quality understanding of the book they are
supposed to teach, and all are supporting Donald Trump who appeals to four
things: greed, fear, hate, and ignorance. He lies with impunity, courts
racists and other hate mongers. He steals from the vulnerable, using our
court system to protect him; he is the most litigious national politician
in our history: he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits in the
last thirty years. Sadly, his existence is partially under-girded by the
intellectual left’s undermining of “objective truth” (or “facts”) and in so
doing we on the left have helped to make facts irrelevant. If what is
objectively real and true are only “convenient fictions,” substance-less
phantoms of our imaginations, then we are left with no ground upon which to
bring to light this despicable want-to-be tyrant’s vile lies and morally
bankrupt ideas, in as much as he actually has any identifiable ideas beyond
praising horrid dictators like Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin.

The Republican Party created Donald Trump. Over the last thirty or so
years, primarily traceable to that moral giant Newt Gingrich, a man who
divorced two dying wives while having affairs with married women and
actually having sex in the car of the parking area of congress with his
husband-stealing paragon of virtue lover all while leading the impeachment
of President Clinton and giving speeches about “family values.” Never has
anyone been so aptly named as “Newt,” the man who impeached a president for
lying in response to a question that should have never been asked. Our
political discourse has been flooded with value laden non-sequiturs
absolutely divorced from facts at least since Newt. For example, Donald
Trump’s much repeated nonsense that China made up “climate change” to harm
our economy and further enrich themselves; there is no evidence for this
nonsense; Trump apparently bent over and pulled it from his posterior, but
our media treat the claim as if it had some kind of merit and repeatedly
play snips of him saying it while leaving the claim unchallenged, thereby,
insuring a kind of nuclear meme that destroys informed discourse.
Republicans could have solutions to the problem, and we could perhaps find
common ground to repair it, but if we can’t even submit to facts, then we
find ourselves lost in Wonderland, and Trump is our Mad Hatter.

The Republican party’s acquiescence to Trump should not be surprising, but
it must be condemned. House Speaker Paul Ryan’s lukewarm endorsement is
exemplary evidence of the party’s lack of moral courage and absence of
ideas. Paul Ryan who says he is a Catholic required all of his staff
members to read Ayn Rand’s books. Rand’s belief that “selfishness is the
highest virtue” stands in stark contrast to Christianity, and cannot be
believed true by anyone who assents to Christianity while having even a
cursory understanding of the faith (something which I grant, Donald trump
does not posses). In 2005 Ryan said, “The reason I got involved in public
service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would
be Ayn Rand. And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a
fight of individualism versus collectivism.” Ayn Rand was an atheist who
had sex with her lovers in front of her husband in part to humiliate him —
whatever floats one’s boat I suppose, but those aren’t “family values.”

On April 14th when asked what his favorite Bible verse is, Donald Trump
said,“Well, I think many. I mean, when we get into the Bible, I think many,
so many, and some people, look, an eye for an eye, you can almost say that
that’s not a particularly nice thing. But you know, if you look at what’s
happening to our country, I mean, when you see what’s going on with our
country, how people are taking advantage of us, and how they scoff at us
and laugh at us. And they laugh at our face, and they’re taking our jobs,
they’re taking our money, they’re taking the health of our country. And we
have to be firm and have to be very strong. And we can learn a lot from the
Bible, that I can tell you.” Aside from this jumbled word-salad’s
inarticulate gibberish, the dressing splattered all over the quote is
Trump’s absolute lack of comprehension of Judeo-Christianity. His appeal to
feelings of humiliation that no migrant causes (“laughing in our faces”) is
disgusting enough, but the suggestion that we should humiliate others
because we feel humiliated is evil, and it is not debatable. More recently,
Trump said, “We can’t do waterboarding — which may not be the nicest thing,
but it’s peanuts compared to many alternatives. So we can’t do
waterboarding but they can do chopping off heads, drowning people in steel
cages. They can do whatever they want to do. . . . They probably think
we’re weak, we’re stupid, we don’t know what we’re doing, we have no
leadership. You know, you have to fight fire with fire.” Trump is
suggesting we should cut off the heads of terrorists (i.e. “fire with
fire,”) and that we should drown them in cages. If American Exceptionalism
has any genuine grounding in reality, then Trump’s evil, anti-Christian,
anti-Western ideology must be rejected. We convinced the world to outlaw
such practices, and we do not demonstrate “strength” by cavalierly tossing
aside our values with Trump’s vile argument or the bestial behavior he
advocates; instead it is pitiful, ugly weakness. It is easy and emotional
to “feel” like we should “do to them what they do to us,” but doing so
demonstrates a weakness in our moral character. While many world belief
systems make this clear as well, a Christian simply cannot agree with Trump
if the Christian has spent any quality time at the foot of the cross.

Most disturbing of all from Trump is his flirtation with anti-Semitic and
numerous other brands of hate-groups: there is a reason Trump is endorsed
by Stormfront (a neo-Nazi hate group;) there is a reason Trump is endorsed
by the KKK and and there is a reason Trump is endorsed by David Duke. The
re-tweeting of the now infamous “Star of David” superimposed on a picture
of Hillary Clinton with piles of money captivated our country for two days.
Trump lives and moves in the world of rabid racists; he is reading their
twitter accounts and using some of the ones he finds useful. When Trump
made Breitbart’s Steve Bannon his campaign manager, any hope of a plausible
denial of his racism was gone; Bannon’s employment of Milo Yiannopolus, a
vile racist, Anti-Semitic bigot recently permanently banned from twitter
for his unprovoked and evil attack on the most delightful Leslie Jones,
underscores the routinely racist headlines and content at Breitbart.

We must find and bring to justice, if necessary kill, the terrorists who
perpetrate horrible crimes; that much is true. Likewise, we must solve an
immigration problem causing genuine anxiety and economic uncertainty in our
country, but we need not lose our souls by betraying our values in so
doing. While we are in pursuit of justice, we must look at our own behavior
and examine our way of being in the world, the many ways our policies have
alienated oppressed people around the world while making evil institutions
like ISIL more likely. Maybe with honest self-reflection, we can work for a
world in which American Idealism is real, and American Exceptionalism is a
given, and we can be the “shining city on a hill” the world aspires to
emulate.





















































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sodomite/

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