Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Name The Church He’s Ever Set Foot In

That didn’t burst into flames when he crossed the threshold. (I know, I know: “…saving God.” I’ve met lot of people who think that way. Might as well complain about DST. Which I do, as a matter of fact. But we could fix that!)

I think since the ‘50’s, this has become American Standard. I mean the idea that all “good” Americans go to church and are “God fearing” (though nobody thinks that means what it says).  It really hasn’t been that way since at least the ‘60’s, especially after the decade of the TV evangelists.  Although I know of at least two churches that have shuttered in recent years, something that, in my childhood, was unimaginable.  Church attendance is in sharp decline, which I’ve mentioned before is a return to the norm, not a sign of Significant Change and Shifting Tectonic Plates. (That link is not necessarily my best discussion of the topic, but it seems to be the most recent.) Eric probably couldn’t name a church within 20 miles of his home. As I quoted in that link, church attendance in America is tidal, and that tide is going out. Trump would be as effective as King Canute in trying to change that.
All I can say is: when Fox News is on your ass, you ain’t convincing’ nobody! Biden got 100 hostages released. Anybody remember that? No? That’s mostly because nothing else changed. Trump got 20 released. Or he says he did. Too soon to say whether anything will change, but History says signs point to “No.” Besides: Which means the Committee holds Trump in lower regard than most of us who remember him, hold Henry Kissinger. Xenophobia and racism and ignorance (no, I don’t repeat myself) do not make sound economic or public policy? Who’da thunk it?
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5 comments:

  1. The Thought Criminal1:55 PM

    If you really wanted to burn up Trump you could point out that Le duc Tho was a "Peace Prize" winner, too. Considering Hitler was nominated - by Gertrude Stein no less, or maybe that should be no more, and some of those who have won it, It ain't all it's cracked up to be though I still love that Trump's obsessed with it because Obama was given one for not being George W. Bush, imagine the relief the world will feel when our current national nightmare is over, at least temporarily.

    Eric Trump as a champion of Christianity has to be about the biggest irony since Henry VIII was declared by the Pope to be Defender of the Faith. Though I'm sure Henry had at least read the Bible and some theology before he went all Ivan the Terrible (just watched the latest Tasting History channel Youtubes, I love that channel).

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  2. jim, some guy in iowa2:03 PM

    I might be the least church-y of your readers, but I believe I fear God more than the average fundamentalist/evangelical does. They think they *own* God, in the same way you own a hammer or a chisel or a gun. They use God in the same way, for the same reason: to beat people into toeing their particular line.

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  3. Rmj3:23 PM

    The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Which kinda tells you how many wise “defenders of God” there are. Especially among those who wield “God” like club against others.

    I suspect Henry VIII knew scriptures well enough to know the passages where God challenges someone to an argument. Humility works (see: Abraham trying to save Sodom and Gomorrah; Mary’s humility before Gabriel; even Job’s redemption). Henry probably knew those stories. Eric? Probably doesn’t know who Noah was.

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  4. rick allen6:54 PM

    Anyone who thinks that a politician can "save God" obviously has no idea what the word "God" signifies.

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