Trump hosted a listening circle in the White House yesterday. He appeared to be listening. May be he actually was listening. I don't have hopes that he will make listening a habit, but you never know.
Alan Archibald "You never know..." But my working hypothesis is that Trump has been lying so long he doesn't know what's real...
... that his egotism (like the goody-two-shoes egotism of "American exceptionalists") knows no bound...
... that Dishonorable Donald is a lifelong liar-cheat-and-thief...
... and that The Deplorable One occupies the borderland between solipsism and psychopathy, and makes his way in the world with Ted Bundy-like charm that seduces everyone who "loses her head" over him.
To give His Satanic Majesty benefit of doubt is, by my lights, an indulgence of bleeding-heart snow-flakism.
I believe that whatever "we" think about Trump, his "Dorian Gray" reality is incalculably worse.
I also believe that practitioners of bad religion who conceive Trump as anything other than moral monstrosity will end up discrediting conservative Christianity for generations - hopefully forever.
If God is just, the collapsed credibility of "Christians" siding with Trump's core malice and spite will come to pass.
Even so, pray that God is ultimately merciful.
Every American, including myself, stands in need.
That said, the good Mercy sisters at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic "grammar" school in Irondequoit, New York, taught us that there is hope for the redemption of everyone's soul and -- way back in the '50s -- counseled us to pray for the salvation of Adolf Hitler.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../all-dirt-on...
... that his egotism (like the goody-two-shoes egotism of "American exceptionalists") knows no bound...
... that Dishonorable Donald is a lifelong liar-cheat-and-thief...
... and that The Deplorable One occupies the borderland between solipsism and psychopathy, and makes his way in the world with Ted Bundy-like charm that seduces everyone who "loses her head" over him.
To give His Satanic Majesty benefit of doubt is, by my lights, an indulgence of bleeding-heart snow-flakism.
I believe that whatever "we" think about Trump, his "Dorian Gray" reality is incalculably worse.
I also believe that practitioners of bad religion who conceive Trump as anything other than moral monstrosity will end up discrediting conservative Christianity for generations - hopefully forever.
If God is just, the collapsed credibility of "Christians" siding with Trump's core malice and spite will come to pass.
Even so, pray that God is ultimately merciful.
Every American, including myself, stands in need.
That said, the good Mercy sisters at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic "grammar" school in Irondequoit, New York, taught us that there is hope for the redemption of everyone's soul and -- way back in the '50s -- counseled us to pray for the salvation of Adolf Hitler.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../all-dirt-on...
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