It's not looking good for Harris.
I can't even believe it's this close, after everything we've seen and heard with our own eyes from Trump.
But before I get to that, it seems the biggest reason is inflation. I won't even say the economy in general, because the economy itself is doing okay, unemployment low, new jobs added..
So ... y'all understand that the POTUS literally has nothing to do with how much things cost, right?
Nor can they do anything about the price of goods and services, either.
Just checking that y'all understand that regardless of who is elected, the POTUS does NOT have the power to fix the prices or inflation.
Only Congress can - but they won't - because that would be price control/regulation, and people would scream communism/socialism if they did!
Sigh.
ANYway, this will not be a happy post, but it's an honest one.
Because as melodramatic as it sounds, after possibly electing this deranged narcissist twice, I've lost my faith in this country, in my fellow Christians, in humanity - and I think I just lost the last bit of my faith in God/Jesus, in Christianity.
Because, fellow Christians?
Are you really okay with turning a blind eye to all of Trump's narcissism, the vainglory, the greed, the deceit, the bearing false witness against anyone who disagrees with him, the racism, the hatred, condoning/threatening violence and immorality - even criminality?
Are you really okay with January 6th?
The fake elector scheme in 2020 (that failed)?
Sending Putin COVID tests on the sly?
Sending out misinformation about a deadly virus, just so it doesn't keep people from getting out and voting for you?
Paying Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about affairs?
Saying you can grab women by the "P" if you're famous?
Saying someone should shoot Liz Cheney and press in the face?
Saying immigrants were eating dogs and cats in Ohio?
Up-charging for cheap bibles made in China with his name stamped on them?
Bearing false witness against anyone who disagrees with him, threatening to execute them if president?
And that's just the tip of the iceberg, but ... really?
And then you say "Oh, we should forgive him, as God's imperfect messenger."
I.CALL.BULLSHIT.
Because he says/does these horrible things - repeatedly - without remorse or consequence - in fact, he's getting worse instead of better!
That's not unconditional love and forgiveness of a fellow Christian - that's turning a blind eye and enabling a monster, just so you get what YOU want and YOUR rights/people just like you, and to hell with anyone else - it's selfish!
Is your only definition of morality about sex/gender/reproductive issues ?
Because it seems you are A-OK with every other immoral "sin" listed in the bible that Christ himself preached against - of which Trump ticks every box, repeatedly - and without remorse!
Did we read the same bible, particularly the gospels?
How could we have interpreted the words of Christ so differently?
Because I don't get this from my fellow Christians - and I never will.
But the majority of Christians believe Trump is God's chosen, yes?
It's just a few of us Christians that don't see it, and in fact, we few see him as the antithesis to everything Jesus himself ever preached on - I can't see a single Christian thing in word or deed from the man!
But can I sit here in the minority and be sure I'm right and they're all wrong?
No, I cannot.
However, I do legitimately have trouble finding the scriptural basis for support of Trump. In fact, I seem to find the exact opposite in Christ's own words?
Because the Jesus I thought I read about would never support anyone who manipulated people with fear, hatred, greed, and violence, all for his own glory - but I guess it's me that had Jesus wrong?
As a matter of fact, for the first time in my life, I'm publicly stating that I don't think I want to be a Christian anymore.
If this is truly what being a Christian is - then count me out.
Because to be honest and to put it bluntly - y'all disgust me, the stuff you're now condoning in Christ's name.
The greed, the deceit, the superiority complexes, the selfishness and demanding of just your own rights just your interpretation of scripture and Christianity, and to heck with everybody else ...
I don't want anything to do with this brand of Christianity anymore - and I don't want to be associated with anything horrible that's promised now, which will be done in Christ's name.
So I'm sorry to disappoint my readers, considering the amount of Christian messages I have written about on here, previously, but I think I'm done with Christianity - it's not what I thought. Jesus is apparently not who I thought.
And if I'm honest, most of my prayers have gone unanswered and faith has brought me nothing but disappointment.
God, if you are there, and I'm wrong, forgive me - but you've had ample chances to prove to me otherwise, when I kept believing despite logic or proof - faith is the evidence of things not yet seen and all that - has never been true for me.
I thought you were a God of truth and justice, a God of mercy and love?
But instead, you favor greed, lies, manipulation, fear, and hatred.
It seems to me that if you DO exist, you're either random or favor some but not others - sometimes some really shitty human beings - and the rest of us must be "children of a lesser God," as Tennyson said.
Well, congratulations, Christians - whether or not your Trump won the election - because what you have accomplished is to help me rid myself of the last bit of faith that I was illogically clinging to.
I still believe in the lessons I thought I learned from Jesus because those messages about doing unto others, etc., I still believe in - but I'm abandoning the faith itself because apparently he's not who I thought.
I'm sure I'll feel better in a few days - and maybe I'll feel differently in time, but honestly?
It would take a miracle for me, a finally answered prayer - something that had to be God and nothing else - for me to return to Christianity.
I'm not any other religion either, mind you - back to agnostic.
In fact, I don't want to be any faith - because other than money being the root of all evil, religion is a close second (and sometimes both) - religion and money are at the source of almost every conflict and war we've all ever had!
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