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When the RNC claims God gave us Trump, even heaven’s hiring department has questions. Perhaps “caretaker” means something different in Republican theology.
While war spread, fuel prices climbed, and the economy made noises normally heard before an appliance catches fire, Donald Trump attended the second night of his Dallas rally.
There, the Republican National Committee unveiled its latest contribution to Christian theology:
“God gave us Trump.”
Apparently, after creating the heavens, the Earth, light, life, and the moral order of the universe, God looked upon His planned paradise and decided it needed a caretaker who had been convicted on 34 felony counts.
The RNC video borrowed its premise from “So God Made a Farmer.” Farmers rise before dawn, work the land, repair machinery, endure bad weather, and feed their communities.
Trump rises considerably later, works the television remote, repairs his version of events, and feeds his followers whatever wandered through his head during breakfast.
Still, the RNC would have us believe that Trump was personally recruited by the Almighty. One imagines the celestial hiring committee reviewing the application.
Bankruptcies? Several.
Adultery? Documented.
Humility? Position left blank.
Experience caring for paradise? Owns golf courses.
“Perfect,” said the angels. “Exactly what we were looking for.”
This is what remains of Republican Christianity. The Sermon on the Mount has been replaced by a campaign video. Blessed are the meek, provided they purchase a commemorative hat and applaud on cue.
Jesus washed the feet of the poor. Trump sells gold sneakers. Yet somehow the party has concluded that these men are working the same department.
Of course, if God truly gave us Trump, perhaps it was not an endorsement. The Bible contains floods, plagues, famines, false prophets, golden idols, and rulers consumed by pride. Not everything God sends is a gift. Sometimes it is a test.
God gave humanity free will.
Republicans used theirs to turn the Creator of the universe into Trump’s campaign manager.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
The RNC works in marketing.
Michael Corthell
