Our proclivities for secular empiricism are not relevant to the present writing. Nor does the same intend to bear any relation to the eternal, metaphysical debate between secular epistemology and religious faith. Our theme, instead, relates to the erroneous, all-too-prevalent tactic of adopting a repugnant position for the perceived benefit of a dedicated cause. Recent events reveal the ultimate error, often the embarrassing foolishness of such fallacious tactics.
Our perception of contemporary events reveals a consistent and ardent support by the various Evangelical Churches and, in general, Evangelical Christianity, of Donald Trump, an observably bizarre and inconsistent choice, considering their bedrock belief in atonement for sin and redemptive virtue through devout piety.
As we understand Evangelical Christianity, the signature concept of redemption by the acquisition of religious faith and recognition of the essential “holiness of life” is equivalent to being beneficially “born again” to a life of faith, sexual restraint, relevant morality, and, more recently, academic scholarship.
For some time, it had discombobulated us to comprehend the apparently bizarre confluence between the American Evangelist population, its avowed, definitionally lofty religious and moral standards, and its bizarrely adamant support of Trump; the latter, the publicly demonstrated avatar of societally immoral, and even, pernicious criminal behavior. The solution to the morally principled conundrum was, at various times, provided to the public by way of media inquiry.
The Kafka-esque explanation for such support provides the instructive raw material for this writing; it constitutes a tactically sophomoric explanation amounting to the support of a shameless and systemic miscreant (Donald J. Trump), but one who, empirically, could protect Evangelical Christianity from attack by the secularistic “left.” The resultant exercise of such principled protection was not only a shameful revelation of a flawed fundamental doctrinal principle but, predictably, an absurdly conceived strategy.
We, of course, are not privy to the resultant facts to enable comment on the impact of such sophomorically flawed tactics on Evangelicals, generally. Nevertheless, the public perception of Trump’s egoistic and delusional behavior might, in conception, lead to a general public caricature of the faith movement for which his presence was deemed beneficial.
Trump’s insincere brandishing of the New Testament (upside down), at a political demonstration, sale of Trump Bibles with favorable inscriptions, with the same religious zeal as his sale of “golden” sneakers, and his recent gold-colored publication of himself adorned as the Catholic Pope ( especially, in consideration of the recent decease of the publicly beloved Pope Francis) is a testament to riding the wrong horse, and fundamentally to ill-conceived, tactically repugnant motivation.
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