If Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh Is Right, "Christian" "Conservatives" Are Very Sick People

Alan Archibald

If Thich Nhat Hanh is right, "Christian" "conservatives" are sick people crying out for help.

But where do we begin with a person who is absolutely convinced s/he's "saved!" - and equally convinced that "the other guy" will spend eternity in an "Unquenchable Lake Of Fire" because God wants him to endure eternal torment? Indeed, their God designed the Universe so that torment -- without hope of relief (much less remedy) -- was built into the fabric of Creation. 

Trump was elected by white, "Christian" "conservatives" whose unflinching commitment to authoritarianism and "biblical literalism" predispose them to believe any damn thing - or at least to assume that their interpretation of Scripture coincides perfectly with "the will of God," which, in the end, is much the same thing... a subtle apotheosis in which a true believer's "personal will" always coincides with "God's will" - at least when it comes to views and treatment of "the other," The Infidel.

Thomas Merton: Adolf Eichmann, Sanity and Normality
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/07/thomas-merton-adolf-eichmann-sanity-and.html

In 2015, when Trump launched his campaign on a foundation of "birtherism," then "making up" whatever fictions were politically convenient, "Christian" "conservatives" saw in him an authoritarian Strong Man who validated their own fictions, a man who welcomed their bigotry and prejudice, simultaneously encouraging them to fabricate all manner of cruel, uncharitable maliciousness about dark-skinned "sons-of-bitches" and women whom he called "pigs" and "dogs," constantly assuring "good Christians" that these fabrications were not just normal but virtuous: indeed Trump's persistent malice was "God's Truth."

"Love one's enemies?"

Suddenly, vengeance, retaliation and spite were "The Holy Trinity" of Trump's "New World Order."

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False Witness
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/false-witness.html

What's more, Trump's boot-licking cultists could only qualify as "true believers" by being enraged at dark-skinned evil-doers -- whom stronzo himself identified as terrorists, thieves rapists and vermin -- "bad hombres" who were "ripping them off" and "depriving them of their happiness."

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My Own Contact With Family Separation, And The Young Girl Who Died (The Story Of UNC-CH Public Health Professor John Hatch)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/06/my-own-contact-with-family-separation.html

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If Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh Is Right, "Christian" "Conservatives" Are Very Sick People
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/if-buddhist-monk-thick-nhat-hanh-is.html

Here we are three years later, with the sickest segment of American society conceiving Trump -- an ostensibly "successful" and demonstrably wealthy man -- as The Champion in whose crazed image "the faithful" saw themselves exalted by a solipsistic con man who "won them over" by re-defining their sickness as normalcy.

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The Atlantic Magazine

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/trump-is-not-well-atlantic.html

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http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/dear-white-conservative-christian-i-see.html

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"Evangelical Support Of Trump Will Be An Indictment Against Its Validity," Fr. Richard Rohr

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"The Deepening Crisis In Evangelical Christianity"

Support For Trump Degrades Christian Witness 

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-deepening-crisis-in-evangelical.html

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https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/evangelicals-lack-of-faith-is-single.html

Cartoon: American Evangelicals Join The Last Supper

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"Thoughts And Prayers"

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