moda0306 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:08 am
Xan,
What of God's plans do you think he's advancing that are most important to you? I actually find this take pretty honest and refreshing... My priorities might be different, but I can understand the idea of voting for a relative "slimeball" if they can reliably advance an agenda that's important enough to me.
I can take a stab at this one.
One of the ambiguous verses of the Bible is Luke 12:8-10:
I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God. 9 But whoever disowns me before others will be disowned before the angels of God. 10 And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
Many interpretations on that one. Mine is that the Holy Spirit represents the spirit of God in the broadest sense, that is, his plan for conquering the world with love and forgiveness. My evidence is that of all the verses in the Bible, the harshest criticism goes to religious figures who, while pretending to serve God are serving their own ends.
So that is my basic definition of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, seeking your own ends behind a cloak of godliness.
This principle works in a secular sense as well. The pedophile scout leader, the abusive social worker, the embezzling supposedly loyal employee. Anyone who hides their evil behind fake altruism is an especially bad person.
The spiritual principle, for me, that Trump is advancing, is punishment for this sort of violation. I have become appalled, in the past decade or so, at the hypocrisy and corruption of the left in America. It is not the liberal spirit that I recognize, the one that I once believed in.
The way they have turned their back on the middle class and lower classes, and embraced identity politics and open borders in a craven bid to secure majority voters for the future, is just plain evil to me.
I also take exception to their mode of debate. From what I can see, they just use guilt and shaming language to silence their opponents. They seem to revel in creating division and pushing everyone into opposing camps based not on ideas but on race, sexual identity, gender.
I think they are as intellectually lazy as can be. I also don't understand how you can say you care about underdogs when you fight to get rid of all protections for the individual. Bye bye free speech, bye bye presumption of innocence, bye bye due process, bye bye biology and the hard sciences.
I see them as fat lazy pigs who are basically hypocrites. Not old school liberals, who are awesome and necessary, but identitarians who just string together adjectives to attack others and also to defend themselves.
The value of Trump for me, and I am not saying unequivocally that there is a divine directive behind his victory, is that winning the election has exposed the modern left for what it is.
They were so sure that old white capitalists were relics and far behind them in the rear view mirror, so to have one of them win, and one as crass and bombastic as Trump should have served as the wake up call of the century.
It should have made them regroup and ask what they had done wrong, since the victory was theirs for the taking, and they messed it up.
To put it simply, Trump is a big spanking for people who hide their selfish corrupt selves behind fake concern for the downtrodden.
You can't shame someone who doesn't care what you think.
The fact that he just carries on, and doesn't care if a million screeching feminists in pink hats hate him, doesn't care if the U.N. laughs at his speech, to me this is entirely bracing, and a corrective to all the touchy feely, new agey, wimpy, soft males and overbearing feminists who have dominated the discussion since as long as I can remember.
Crass as he is, he is masculinity giving notice, roaring back, doing his thing and not caring if people call him deplorable.
The real signal he is sending out, in my opinion, is that you don't have to feel shame or guilt because of your color or your gender, and you certainly don't have to feel guilty for something you didn't do.
Donald Trump is how God is choosing to teach the left to stop crying wolf, and start getting on with life.
And they still aren't listening. All I see is doubling down on the original shaming language and fake moral righteousness.
And that is God's way of showing the rest of us what the current iteration of the left is really all about.
