More than anything else, the inauguration of Donald J Trump looked and sounded like a religious service to the Greatness of America: Her Stalwart People, Her Mighty Military, Her Blessed Federal Government, and Her Dearest Leader. That statement may not sit well with MAGA Americans, but the truth is often painful. What was on display in Washington was pure hubris – excessive pride that is the root of all other sins. From the stage, viewers were constantly assured that while Trump’s America may have inherited difficult problems, going forward the Federal Government will be all-powerful enough to fix everything. Not all Trump voters were happy with what they saw. Many Americans thought they were voting for a peaceful Republic: secure within its borders, respectful to the Christian Faith (in general, given our religious diversity), humble in its foreign policy, and respectful of the rights of states, counties, and cities to as much local rule as possible. Through his inauguration, Trump has blatantly shown us that we have gotten a very different outcome.
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By Walt Garlington, an Orthodox Christian living in Dixieland. His writings have appeared on several web sites, and he maintains a site of his own, Confiteri: A Southern Perspective.
President Trump’s 2025 inaugural address gave a clear indication of the direction he wants to take the peoples of the States. Overall, it isn’t a good one.
Yes, there were positive things in it, such as promises to end some of the transgender and DEI nonsense in the federal government, to better manage immigration, etc. But they cannot blot out the danger that is also present within it. That danger being the establishment of a deeper and more pervasive idolatry in the States. And the idol is us, the people themselves.
Here is Trump’s vision, in his own words:
Above all, my message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor and the vitality of history’s greatest civilization. So, as we liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights of victory and success. We will not be deterred. . . . The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons. And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.
He goes on:
And it’s the lifeblood of a great nation. And, right now, our nation is more ambitious than any other. There’s no nation like our nation. Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls. Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on Earth. No one comes close. Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness. They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted millions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand. If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.
The ‘American people’ are presented as the Gnostic demiurge that will bring perfection to the world:
Many people thought it was impossible for me to stage such a historic political comeback. But as you see today, here I am. The American people have spoken. I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do. In America, the impossible is what we do best. From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston to right here in Washington, D.C., our country was forged and built by the generations of patriots who gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom. They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, steel workers and coal miners, police officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward and let no obstacle defeat their spirit or their pride. Together they laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed over every single challenge that they faced.
. . . In recent years, our nation has suffered greatly. But we are going to bring it back and make it great again. Greater than ever before. We will be a nation like no other. Full of compassion, courage and exceptionalism. Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable.
. . . From this day on, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign and independent nation. We will stand bravely. We will live proudly. We will dream boldly, and nothing will stand in our way. Because we are Americans. The future is ours. And our golden age has just begun.
If folks will recall their Gnostic lore, the demiurge makes a mess out of the task of fashioning the material world; the same has been (and will ever be) true of Americanism.
There are the obligatory shallow references to ‘God’ at a few points in the address. In the closing, it appears in the usual blasphemous way so often used by political leaders of the States, being a command rather than a prayer: ‘God bless America,’ which is reminiscent of how the Talmudic Jews approach God (He obeys the rabbis, not the other way around; see Michael Hoffman, Judaism’s Strange Gods, for more on that).
That this ‘God’ is not the Holy Trinity of the Orthodox Church may be discerned rather easily from President Trump appointing to his cabinet several LGBT officials:
President Trump is assembling an administration stocked with prominent gay and lesbian Americans — defying hysterical Democratic rhetoric.
“When it comes to whether you’re gay or straight, black or white and all those markers others calculate — President Trump is decision blind. He bases his decision on the kind of job he knows you will do, period,” said Bill White, a top Trump fundraiser — who was tapped to serve as the US ambassador to Belgium.
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- Scott Bessent, 62, treasury secretary. If confirmed, the hedge fund manager would be the highest-ranking openly gay official in US history.
- Ric Grenell, 58, presidential envoy for special missions. He was Trump’s director of national intelligence during his first term.
- Tammy Bruce, 62, the new State Department spokesperson was a Fox News contributor.
- Jacob Helberg, 35, undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment.
- Bill White, 57, ambassador to Belgium.
- Art Fisher, 49, ambassador to Austria.
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Taken altogether, Trump’s riveting of the focus of ‘Americans’ solely to worldly ends, to acquiring earthly ‘greatness’ rather than the Kingdom of Heaven, is a blunder the Orthodox saints warn us against over and over again, with both their words and actions.
St Macarius the Great of Egypt (+4th century, celebrated 19 Jan.) is prominent among them. His teaching about the purpose and focus of this life is in direct opposition to the Trumpian position:
Man’s highest goal and purpose, the union of the soul with God, is a primary principle in the works of Saint Macarius. . . . Earthly life, according to Saint Macarius, has only a relative significance: to prepare the soul, to make it capable of perceiving the heavenly Kingdom, and to establish in the soul an affinity with the heavenly homeland.
Such a theme is completely absent from Trump’s inaugural. For Trump/MAGA, building American pride and conquest of the earth/cosmos are all that matter – i.e., worldly success is salvation (one of the key errors of New England Yankee Puritanism). If we follow the Trumpian MAGA path, however, we will be totally unprepared for death, as St Macarius points out:
“For those truly believing in Christ, it is necessary to change and transform the soul from its present degraded nature into another, divine nature, and to be fashioned anew by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
This is possible, if we truly believe and we truly love God and have observed all His holy commandments. If one betrothed to Christ at Baptism does not seek and receive the divine light of the Holy Spirit in the present life, “then when he departs from the body, he is separated into the regions of darkness on the left side. He does not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but has his end in hell with the devil and his angels” (Homily 30:6).
This union with God is attained primarily by humility, one of the central themes of the life of St Macarius (and all Orthodox saints), a virtue which is anathema to most adherents of Americanism:
Saint Macarius survived many demonic attacks against him. Once, he was carrying palm branches for weaving baskets, and a devil met him on the way and wanted to strike him with a sickle, but he was not able to do this. He said, “Macarius, I suffer great anguish from you because I am unable to vanquish you. I do everything that you do. You fast, and I eat nothing at all. You keep vigil, and I never sleep. You surpass me only in one thing: humility.”
Rather than weighing ourselves down with worldly things per Trump/MAGA, St Macarius shows us that we ought to cast them away as much as possible:
One time the holy abba caught a thief loading his things on a donkey standing near the cell. Without revealing that he was the owner of these things, the monk began to help tie up the load. Having removed himself from the world, the monk told himself, “We bring nothing at all into this world; clearly, it is not possible to take anything out from it. Blessed be the Lord for all things!”
Trumpism/Americanism vs the Orthodox Church is nothing more than the latest instantiation of what Paul Kingsnorth and Jonathan Pageau discussed recently: the way of deification via obedience to God or the Luciferian/satanic way of becoming godlike via rebellion against God, the choice which mankind has been faced with since he was placed in the Garden of Eden. There will never be peace between the devil and his hordes and God; neither should we expect much between the man-worshipping false church of MAGA and the Christ-worshipping Orthodox Church.
How should an Orthodox Christian relate to the American Empire, then? An Orthodox fellow from Dixie, Enoch Cade, answers well. Picking up with his thoughts about WWII being the ‘good war,’ he writes (in an essay folks should take a minute to read),
“The Good War” is one of the High Holies of America, just like Lincoln’s war. America the good, America the liberator, America granted the divine right to impose its universal values on the entire world, and by the bayonet if needed. The South’s role in its ridiculous fantasy? We are the cautionary tale, the road less travelled, the “original sin” that must be expunged from the body politic; we must die so that America might live and fully realize its promise. When the Americans say, “That’s not who we are,” Southerners are who, or what, the Americans desperately do not want to be.
Again, grounds for agreement. I do not want to be an American.
Shelby Foote once said we struck a deal with the Americans. We would fight in their wars, slave in their factories, pump the oil and keep the machinery working and putting up with their stupid insults with good humor – provided they kept their disgusting fingers from our monuments and our memories.
And they broke the deal. They lied. Has America ever honored an obligation? Americans break treaties with abandon, justifying themselves with the same abstractions used for all of their monstrous deeds: freedom, justice, equality. The Americans have not only drained those words of meaning: they have positively inverted them. Was it Kissinger who said it’s dangerous to be an ally of the Americans? Ask the English, or the French. Or the Germans, de-industrialized by that mysterious Nord Stream explosion. Is someone seeking to reduce Germany to a nation of peasant agriculturalists?
It does, though, remove me from an obligation to them. I do realize it’s ridiculous; I cannot change my passport. But I want nothing to do with any “polity” whose national myth is a bullsh*t defamation of the Southern people. I want nothing to do with your flag, and your Air Force flyovers at the football games, your Black Friday sales, your endless movie remakes and whatever else it is that makes you Americans. A “nation of ideas,” you say. A “propositional nation”; assent to these four points and you and your family are and will forever be, Americans.
That is not a nation. That’s a political party. I don’t assent to your bullsh*t propositions. Does that mean I’m no longer an American?
By God, I think we have a deal!
That is how Orthodox Christians, from whichever of the authentic cultural regions of the US they live in, ought to view the phony Proposition Nation of America – as an enemy they should renounce and separate from as much as possible. It rests upon false premises; it will collapse one day because of that. The Orthodox in the States must cling to what is true and real and lasting – to the Holy Trinity, to saints and angels, to the Holy Eucharist, to relics and icons, to prayer, to fasting, etc.: in a word, to the life of the Orthodox Church as it has been passed down to us from the Holy Apostles themselves.
The consequences for idolatry are terrible. The book of the Holy Prophet Ezekiel reveals them to everyone who has eyes to see. Idol worshippers will one day wind up dead, slaughtered before their lifeless gods:
[1] And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
[3] And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
[4] And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
[5] And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
[6] In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
[7] And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
. . . [13] Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols (Ezekiel 6:1-7, 13).
We do not wish that for anyone in the South nor for anyone else in the US. May there be repentance by the peoples of the States for their MAGA-induced self-worship that such an end might be averted.
Two things are very telling regarding Trump: 1. He never placed his hand on the Bible during the inauguration. 2. His reciting of the poem regarding the snake. True confessions? I think so.
If anybody fits the anti-Christ model its Donald Trump. Smooth speaker, loved by many, yet, with a very dark agenda underneath. Keep in mind, Hitler came to power by popular vote. As the “Father of the Vaccine” he should be tried for mass murder in a Nuremberg style trial. Does anybody in their right mind really think he will make America better? Its nothing short of a spell cast over an entire population. We are in for an interesting ride.
If anybody would be fully informed of American treachery it should be the Orthodox. With the EP as an agent of the US state department; American constant antagonism toward Russia in Ukraine, so many hierarchy bending tradition to the will if the state, “We have no king but Cesar!”. This all should be clear.
With all of the Maga phenomenon,, everyone who takes the bait is under a false a security. As this article points out, all the proposed answers are without God at the center; its Man; America pulling itself up by its own bootstraps.
While the Russians have had their belly full of “communism”, many Americans, think its the way to go. When a people refuse to believe the truth, God sends them strong delusion; and we are swimming in much delusion. And, all the answers–as the article points out–are everything but repentance.
Satan never shows up in a dark leotard, horns, and a pitch fork, its always as an angel of light seeking whom he may devour–with delusions of every type suggesting security is found in any and everything but God. With every new presidential post created–in the name of something “good”, will come more control, more taxation, more opposition to the grass roots expression of the Church.
FACT: No government will ever be better than the people it governs. Yet, so many want “good” government”, without they themselves descending into repentance. Joseph DeMastre (victim of the French Revolution said, “Every people deserve the government it has.”
When the Church Fathers built so much of our piety on the practice of repentance, they knew well what they were talking about.
“To defeat the darkness out there, you must defeat the darkness in yourself” Voyage of the Dawn Treader: C.S Lewis.
In the end, government is entirely a worldly construct. No government, nor form of government, went to heaven or hell. Nor is any government perfect. All a government can do is administer a territory over which it has authority in such a way that those who live there – and choose to take up their cross to follow Christ -can find it easier or more difficult to do so.
Writing in a world full of monarchs, Saint Paul wrote “For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.” (Romans 13:4, OSB).
In light of these observations, things are objectively better for both Americans and the Orthoodox Church today than they were in 2024.
As far as tomorrow, who knows. “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” (Matthew 6:34, OSB)
I think it’s worth pointing out to Shelby Foote that the South very much did sin big time both pre and post Civil War. Slavery was not the only cause of the Civil War, sure, but it was the main reason. This was partly because it became an ingrained racial ideology but also because the profit margins to the plantation owners were so huge it was irresistible. Furthermore, there is the real fact that the South never repented of it, what did the slaves get after they were free? An apology? Reparations? No, they got the KKK and Jim Crow. They got their rights to vote and bear arms stripped. They got lynchings. This is the reality of the South before the 1960s Civil Rights movement. That was within living memory, and still nothing. I would take this pontificating about the (very real) failings of America a lot more seriously if you guys removed the log from your own eyes.
Sigh….thanks for reiterating the propaganda we were all taught in “schools” funded by the side that won the war.
I’m puzzled as to why this article is necessary and what type of “Orthodox” Christian doesn’t know this already. Is this really the level of ignorance that you believe readers bring to your website? Because if this is your target demographic, the spiritual problem is a million times worse than the political one.
It’s just easy to get swept up in politics. Trump has done some very good things via EO. He also did something horrible in continuing to push mRNA products that rely on aborted fetal cells for testing and production. How many Orthodox Christians who back Trump, however, have said anything about “Stargate”? This site will eventually, but how many others? The natural reaction of real Orthodox Christians after 4 years of Biden is likely to be one of unflinching support. That is not a good idea in this environment. Plus, there is a fine line between patriotism (a positive thing) and the kind of nationalism to which Trump is rhetorically prone. That is an expression of his own massive ego and his limitless trust in his own capabilities. That kind of thinking easily bites off way more than you can chew in practicality, and is spiritually damaging. America can’t be the last best hope for mankind. That is Christ. We should be striving to a really nice place to live that gives the Church her freedom to save souls. We can’t be the savior of mankind, and we shouldn’t try.
I’m completely lost now. This post appears to be diametrically opposed to the last one on On Orthodox Christian Citizenship & Relations to the State.
Here’s the comparison, “But this Christian patriotism is different from secular Nationalism and the supposed patriotism of super-patriots. While nationalists and super-patriots seek to exalt everything native and justify the errors and missteps of their people, the Christian patriot is not blind to the errors and missteps of his people. Some will take issue with this characterization of nationalism over and against patriotism. I would point them to St. Justin Popovich15 and the renowned Emigre philosopher Ivan Ilyin16 among others.”
What Trump’s inauguration showcased is what Dixon’s piece would call Nationalism / super-patriotism. Trump came close to the edge of, or went full blown into, worship of America. We’ve chosen Trump. We had our reasons for picking him, and there were good ones. But Trump’s rhetoric exceeds patriotism and gets into nationalism, which is essential the worship of the nation which is then idolatry. We have run, more than once, opposing takes on the same topic from two different authors. That is perfectly fine. We report, you decide. But in this case, they really aren’t opposed. Trump was the best candidate, but Trump is not perfect, and his self-worship is a real problem.
Trump is a reflection of our society in every way, an icon of our sin.
AND… “Taken altogether, Trump’s riveting of the focus of ‘Americans’ solely to worldly ends, to acquiring earthly ‘greatness’ rather than the Kingdom of Heaven, is a blunder the Orthodox saints warn us against over and over again, with both their words and actions…”
Since when has any president EVER understood what the Orthodox saints warn us against???
Our very Founders focused on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Completely irrelevant to the Orthodox spiritual life.
We are supposed to vote only for candidates who manage to understand Orthodox spirituality?
No, but the problem you find with MAGA is that it tends, like an ideology, to become a like a counterfeit religion centered on the inherent greatness of America. We are great because America is great! There is no humility there. “We can do all things because we are Americans and we are the greatest civilization that has ever existed!” This isn’t just good government. It’s about worship of ourselves and our own awesomeness. That isn’t healthy spiritually for anyone claiming Christ, Orthodox or Anglican or Catholic. It’s just unhinged.
Plus, there are Evangelicals and others believe that Trump is a near prophetic figure. This level of religious devotion, not to good but to a man and his movement, can easily turn ugly.
That doesn’t answer my question!
You cannot expect a man who was not even an evangelical to base his leadership on Orthodox spirituality!
I’m not disagreeing with you that he is always hyperbolic (I say hyperbolically). It just seems to me that you are expecting an Orthodox ethic from a man who is barely religious. Donald Trump doesn’t claim Christ. He borrows language. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
It is up to US, I believe, as Orthodox Christians to get ourselves into the political arena so that the Orthodox ethic CAN be at least introduced to a country that was founded on heterodox and therefore destructive theology. We are here BECAUSE of heterodox theology.
I saw young Orthodox men on Facebook during the campaign whining about Donald Trump’s speech about IVF. They — including a young mission priest — that we shouldn’t vote for him for that reason!
Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, I see a lot of young Orthodox people who want Trump and the federal government to get rid of abortion federally. They are armchair activists, if activist at all. It’s one thing to sit back and complain about what is wrong with what we were fortunate to get in Donald Trump.
I wish I heard from you and others that young Orthodox people have an obligation to get into the public arena. The public square. POLITICS . And I don’t mean these rich Greeks who routinely vote for abortion and gay marriage, etc.
Your other post was great, for that reason. We as Orthodox Christians have an absolute obligation to change our nation from the ground UP. People who are whining about the federal government would rather pay attention to their own personal peace and affluence (heard that phrase before?) than get up and do something about it themselves.
Trump would not have to have a consistent Orthodox spiritual ethic to have more humility and less nationalistic bombast. We need to separate two things, Rhonda.
Trump is president. A lot of Orthodox voted for him. The IVF and other examples you gave are not good reasons to not vote for Trump, but then again, our system is so incredibly tainted at this point that Cassandra’s non-participation may be the logical way to go. That is up to individual conscience, though most of us tend to lean towards participation.
Please keep in mind – Trump could end up being a net negative. Trump’s popularity and his “we can fix the world” attitude could end up giving you a major war in the Middle East, could end up extending the Ukraine war, could end up building a “Stargate” that leads to mandated “cancer vaccines” dependent on aborted fetal cells that end up killing people. The “Stargate” project could also give you 24/7 total surveillance, a goal of the Deep State since early 2000’s.
A Harris Administration would have been intensely hated and unpopular with segment of the population that cares about government surveillance, aborted tainted mRNA vaccines, and war. Trump is popular with those same people, which means the natural reaction is to “support our president”.
The thing Dixon’s piece did not make clear is that picking “the one with the smaller horns” is still a crapshoot. As articles on this site have pointed out over and over again, bait and switch is a real thing. Some of people around Trump are the most unsavory human beings in all of politics and business. Larry Ellison, anyone? Bill Gates? A Christian Dispensationalist running the Pentagon?
Not good. Potentially, very not good.
Should we be involved in politics, especially at the local level? Of course. You may have forgotten or missed this one:
https://orthodoxreflections.com/now-that-youre-awake-110-things-you-can-do/
But then again, not everyone can get involved in politics without it becoming an all-consuming obsession that ruins their spiritual life. Worse is when your politics merge with your Orthodoxy, which happens to those on the “left” as well as on the “right”. This isn’t about such things as LGBT or clear cut issues, but rather tax policy or government spending priorities or federal bans on abortion (which is as unconstitutional as Roe was) or single-payer health care. Orthodoxy sets moral standards, but Orthodoxy is not a political ideology and there is wide latitude for disagreement between Orthodox Christians on many issues. This may trouble some people who are looking for answers to every possible question, but sometimes there are choices with no clearcut winners.
So what to make of all this? Well, we have presented various viewpoints which young Orthodox (and Orthodox of any age) are free to consider. Cassandra St. John says don’t vote, that only encourages them. That could be a solution, maybe especially when the only possible candidates have the same size horns.
Dixon encourages engagement. We need to try and keep things going as best we can while we change the culture through Orthodox evangelism. Cassandra’s approach and Dixon’s approach both rely, for real change to occur, on the future evangelism of America for Orthodoxy. We have to change the culture to really change how we do politics. After all, if almost your entire political class is in it for the grift, then no one meets Dixon’s criteria anyway.
What Garlington was warning about is, now that Trump is in office, following him down a nationalist rabbit hole. Something echoed in Dixon. “He’s our president now, and we don’t want to give ammo to the Democrats, so hold your fire and trust the plan.” Not a good sentiment. A lot of us did not vote for Trump for him to try and solve all the world’s problems with a massive expansion of the federal government or to keep spending trillions adding to the deficit or to turn America (our home which we love) into some kind of golden calf. We want sincere patriotism, not nationalism. There is a difference, as Dixon makes clear.
Now is the time for accountability. Just because you voted for Trump because of issues A, B, & C does not mean you must support him going forward on everything. Trump is wrong on some issues right now. When he is wrong, you tell him that he is wrong. The only way a representative system can work, even in theory, is if the citizens remain engaged. That is one reason why churches exiting the political arena cost us so much and lead the way for professional lobbysts to completely usurp the roles citizens in holding government to account. We are stronger when organized.
So what should someone take away from all this? Read everything, then discuss it, then see what resonates under what unique circumstances. A good friend of the site ran for mayor a decade ago, and lost in the first round of voting. He was asked by both candidates for his endorsement (he was close to the bubble and had a lot of voters). He refused to endorse either candidate. When asked why, he said, “They are both crooks. Whichever one wins is going to steal the city blind, and anyone swayed by my endorsement is going to blame me and rightly so.” Sure enough, the winner lost 4 years later after having been indicted on state and federal charges. He took a plea after leaving office. The loser was elected to the State Senate the following year, and ended up on state charges which he settled for a massive fine and forfeiture of office.
Sometimes, there are no smaller horns.
It is not a perfect world, and you will never know if you are making the right decision on anything political. God uses imperfect vessels His wonders to perform, but that could apply to Harris as well as Trump (as noted above). Sometimes having a bad, very unpopular leader protects people from their own worst impulses. Sometimes you have a mixed bag of a leader and you find yourself on his side and against him in equal measure. Sometimes you have a fundamentally good leader, who still needs correction.
Sometimes all you have left is prayer.
But he doesn’t have that!
And we knew it when we voted for him.
It’s so early.
He’s a mixed bag. We already knew that.
And we voted for him, mostly, and so far (minis Star Gate) it is really going very well with suspension of aid to Ukraine, suspension of funding for abortion, and the absolute fantastic move on North Carolina. Not sure really where you are coming from. The campaign is over. He gets his four years. We don’t have to like everything he does, and we don’t have to cut him slack over what he does wrong.
I completely agree.
I just think it would have been nicer to begin there. Good grief. We just lived through a hellish four years, and so did he. I think we should be thankful first and THEN hit on the bad stuff.
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Thank you! It’s so odd to me that so many can only see things in black and white tribalism: My side good, other side bad. Nuance is in fact a real thing.
Our contributors seem to thrive off nuance, which is why we are so frequently (as a site) accused of being “left wing” and “right wing” on the same day based on the same content.
That this ‘God’ is not the Holy Trinity of the Orthodox Church may be discerned rather easily from President Trump appointing to his cabinet several LGBT officials:
How does that statement square with what you just published in the other post about On Orthodox Christian Citizenship & Relations to the State?
You just got finished asking the question whether a person in government is a true servant of that government. How does being openly gay prevent one from doing that? And what does appointing an openly gay person have to do with Trump’s understanding of the Holy Trinity of the Orthodox Church?
Two separate authors are going to have different takes. It is up to us to read and make our own conclusions. At what point does the personal life of a public servant get to a point that even if dedicated to the public good, the scandal becomes too great. Particularly if that personal life directly impacts a policy area such as LGBTQ federal rights? Can we hope that Trump would restore marriage freedom, if his cabinet is stuffed with “married” gays? Can we hope that Trump would go after trafficking in babies when the “married” gays in his cabinet have purchased babies from surrogates? The answer is, of course, “no”. Now contrast that with the attitude among American Christians, far too many of them, that Trump survived assassination because he is a prophet. Yes, he is ordained and protected by God. But that does not follow that he is the new Moses and we must hang on his every word. Trump is probably not much of a Christian, just a Lincoln was, though he knows how to deploy the rhetoric and has a sentimentality for Christianity.
To go a little deeper into the LGBTQ appointments, would you support an officer holder that was a public drunk, though he was good at his job? A swinger who blogs about how he likes to go to sex parties? How about a transgender? How about a gambler who is great at his job, but owes money to every casino in Vegas? A drug addict? Do you see where this goes?
The LGBTQ appointments continue to “mainstream” homosexuality. In fact, it now cements it. “See, homosexuality is so normal that a Republican Admin now appoints them!!” Okay, they may be great at their jobs, but that is the result of what is happening. The same as putting a swinger who loves orgies would “mainstream” that lifestyle, or a recreational drug user. Add that to the cult-like devotion some Christians have for Trump, and this is not good for our society.
We need to push back on the LGBTQ appointments, and too many are being silent, which means we are accepting that their lifestyles are completely normal and Trump is just great to do it.
You are right, but unfortunately Christians are not a majority population in America now, roughly equal in number to the sum of atheist and followers of other religions. This is even without subtracting those who claim the term but in fact attend heretical Protestant and Roman Catholic churches that tolerate or promote the LGBTQ movement. Restoring a Godly view about this at a governmental level is almost impossible in such an environment.
“Zionism and Israel are fronts and expressions of the House Of Rothschild”
“… are fundamentally involved in this global manipulation…”
“Zionism is not about benefiting the Jewish people”
“Israel is the state of Rothschild”
“Zionism is the Rothschild agenda which is of course the illuminati agenda””… we can get diverted in “It’s the Jews” and all that stuff, and if we do that, talking about Jewish people as a whole, we can lose the plot. This about the Rothschilds and the Rothschilds agents working under the name of Zionism”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/MvZpAeryKvOZ/
Trump said NAZI?
Rabbi Schneerson- “This was god’s work to punish the Jews …”
“It was the Nazis that rescued Schneerson from the Soviets..” – Min 39:00
“… wipe out 2/3rds of Jewry, …”
“… plan to take out basically 12 million more Jews …”
” … complete disregard for Jewish life unless it is Zionism”
“They want to murder them.”
Min 44:00
https://youtu.be/mnRq1x8Hg1Y
Satanic Kabbalah priest, Menachem Mendel Schneerson
https://www.bitchute.com/video/imeEGY5djLuF/
3% of the population, 0.3% of the soldiers, 50% of the generals
.Jews are about 50% of the politically selected 2, 3 and 4 star generals in jewmerica.
Min 4:30:
Only 5% of “military brass” will control true information?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABMNGADpl28&ab_channel=st
Pentagon A.I. Confirms COVID Vax Is Soft Kill Weapon
https://www.brighteon.com/64dd7f5d-218d-4137-9238-c0c2357d735a
Leaked: U.S. Military Disease Skyrocketing AfterCovid-19 Inoculations
https://nemosnewsnetwork.com/leaked-database-shows-u–
Why we send Israel billions for years? So AIPAC can use our taxes to bribe congress, and manufacture weapons to sell to China so China can send them to Mexican cartels. Yep, additional billions (and armaments) to ‘Big Israel’ to fund Chabad Jews genociding mostly white goyim Americans, goyim Ukrainians and goyim Russians along with funding the Jews salaries and pensions. And so Zelensky can also send US and Israeli weapons to Mexican cartels. Those AIPAC campaign contributions to our US congress along with the congress signed loyalty oaths to Israel are working out pretty well for the Chabad.
Zelensky Selling American Weapons to Mexican Cartel
https://youtu.be/mAabZUaa_Gg
COVID DEPOPULATION PERPETRATORS
https://www.bitchute.com/video/qdePIuYWfBfL/
VIII. JEWS MUST NEVER CEASE TO EXTERMINATE THE GOIM..
http://www.talmudunmasked.com/chapter15.htm
Rabbis anticipate the destruction of the Christianity and the West
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RJ4KPo9q7CDq/
He told everyone, early on, who he/they are, and his idiots cheer:
Trump reads “The Snake” poem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSrOXvoNLwg
RABBI YOSEF 6 BILLION GOYIM DON’T DESERVE TO LIVE
https://www.bitchute.com/video/YwV0x9Pn1MNj/
“It is this Sacred Serpent, the Kabbalah teaches, that in the coming Messianic age shall rise from the abyss to conquer the Gentiles and exalt God’s Chosen, the Jews.”
The Holy Serpent of the Jews
https://cintayati.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/the-holy-s
Love Israel more and take the vaccines
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/146/155/226/playable/43ae10db8edfa161.mp4
I wonder when, if ever, enough people (especially the boots on the
ground military and police) will realize that Russian Chabad are
killing the goyim in the Ukraine and the west and the Chabad
controlled west are killing the goyim in Russia?
It’s all about making a world for their own and enslaving the surviving goyim. Same group
behind disarming America and flooding the US with foreign invaders
(and putting thousands up in our military bases).
Let’s see, The UN, Putin and Trump are implementing Noahide Laws, are
reducing the goyim world population, while they’re making believe
they’re fighting each other and most of US congress signed a loyalty
oath to Israel and sending Israel and Ukraine billions and billions of
US taxes while depleting US armaments … hmmm.
The other make believe Christian:
“… Putin is going to rise up to take the reins of power in Russia.
And the purpose was to reign in the oligarchs that were not in favor
of the Chabad organization inside of Russia.”
“… that when we go to collapse Ukraine, we will have the Russians
believing they are taking back their motherland and we’ll have the
Ukrainians thinking we got to kill off all the Slavs that are in the
country…” – Min 23:30
In order to bring about the Noahide laws:
“… they got to bring about chaos.” -Min 29:30
The Silk Road and Its Agenda
https://youtu.be/gaqVhf5k1Hs
Min 8:30:
“… he is playing his part to establish a New World Order.
“Putin Speaks of A New World Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtemdwIK1Kk
… Putin and Trump on the same page:
“… Putin said there will be a new world order with ‘just laws’, just
laws are also the Noahide laws.” Min 29:00:
Judas and Barabbas Alive and Well
https://youtu.be/3k1NIpiksWk
Israel’s Trojan Horse Trump silently affirms Jewish Noahide
Laws-Jewish writer says Trump is “Champion of Noahide Law”
http://Stopnoahidelaw.blogspot.com
JEWS IN RUSSIA RUN VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING
https://c.cgg.org/index.cfm/r/?s=1IFniaR&sl=vCLNkTXIr&nn=15141
The Ukrainian and Russian goyim are being wiped out for the
Jew/Khazaria takeover of Ukraine (“The Big Israel”) and to CONTINUE
plundering American tax dollars.
Russian general:
“I don’t have any hate towards ordinary Jews. They are not the blame
for anything.” “… the so-called orthodox Judeic organizations of the
Hasidim. In particular, the Chabad organization which rules all over
this black feast.” – Min 10:00
“The Jewish monsters who run Ukraine are carrying out genocide and
killings throughout the country.
They are turning Ukraine into a ‘Jewish Homeland’ for the Khazars.
This is what the Jews, Lenin and Trotsky did to Russia in 1917.” – Min
13:00
And the Ring that Binds them All: Chabad Lubavitch
https://www.bitchute.com/video/1sbom6QXuKMe/
Zionism in Ukraine allied with Nazism – the history of the ‘Great
Reset’How does Israel and one of the largest and most powerful Ultra
Orthodox Zionist cults merge with Ukrainian nationalism and
state-sanctioned
Nazism?https://beeley.substack.com/p/zionism-in-ukraine-alli
So is Putin defending Russia, fighting the WEF/NWO or a deception,
another Chabad agent like Trump?
Why Putin Doesn’t Attack Ukrainian Chabad City
https://odysee.com/@TruthBeforeFace:d/russia-chabad-ukraine:9
Well, well what’s this:
“… all the while he was propping up Chabad …”
Min 26:30:
Biden kneels before Chabad Jewish woman showing his loyalty
“Chabad is who is pulling Putin’s strings.”
“You see they built in an illusion around Putin.”- Min 35:00
“… all the while he was propping up Chabad and his neck was being
turned at their beck and call.” – Min 43:00
“If there was to be a war where in Russia would be willing to attack
Israel, it will be because Chabad has ordered it to do so.” – Min
46:00
Ivanka (Trump) Kushner – Min 50:00
What Would Make Putin Consent to a Gog of Magog Battle
https://youtu.be/vvjzs8sriXA
But this is what you are supposed to believe:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/DXXrxJdE6px8/
… meanwhile:
Zelensky presents list of giant corporations to rebuild Ukraine. (That
America will fund)
https://youtu.be/8puG7TIXVNU
“… the reasons they instigated this war was to empty out Ukraine.”
(For the Jews) + a bonus of white Russians, white Ukrainians and white
Americans and European mercenaries killing each other.”Ukraine is now
the candidate to become the future Jewish state. Perhaps one of the
reasons they instigated this war was to empty out Ukraine.” – Min
54:30Ukraine as ‘big Israel’ – Zelensky the Zionist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5tMgme8SHM
… and:
“Chabad Jews in Russia control Vladimir Putin and the Jewish Oligarchs
surrounding him.”Did Chabad Jews Orchestrate Ukraine War To Establish
Their ‘Third Khazaria’ Kingdom?
https://christiansfortruth.com/how-chabad-jews-orches
It appears, in fact, he’s mistaken, Chabad Jews ARE Nazis Satanists.
ZELENSKYY WANTS U.S. TROOPS SLAUGHTERED (As the Chabad owned US
federal government pours America’s wealth and armaments into his lap)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/sZnzfyxHcfrT/