One of our little Church of Christ papers that gets sent here each month (not because we asked, but because we have a lot of Paper Popes in the church) had an article that caught my attention. It began like this:
"Something has gone terribly, undeniably wrong. When those in lofty positions of authority speak lies, deceptions, and pseudo-clever half-truths, rejecting the clear path of truth for carefully parsed, semantic mazes, something is just not right. And it should disturb us all. Doesn't it bother you to hear untruths presented, promoted, and then defended as true? Doesn't it fuel your fires of righteous indignatino to stand by and witness this constant, relentless campaign of calculated subterfuge? It seems every day--day after day--truth is forced take a backseat to outright lies, being spun and spun and then spun some more until little is left but the crums of what once was."
Wow. Somebody in Churches of Christ is going to come out and talk about Trump! I'm sure that many who read these words thought much the same thing.
Unfortunately, the author wussed out. Nope...it's about false religion. Everybody but us (and some of us, in fact) are the ones he gets angry about. Our various interpretations on certain issues, important are not, are held up as sacrosanct, and everybody who disagrees with us is a liar. He finishes with the oft-used Scripture from 2 Timothy 4:2-4 about 'itching ears' people have that keep them from truth.
Sigh. I know, it's a religious paper. And I know that there is a lot of false religious teaching out there.
But when much of Mr. Trump's support comes from people of faith, who digest his lies and spew them back out as being true...when they call anything they don't like (itching ears, anybody) as 'fake news'...when they continue supporting a man whose immorality and hatred and self-indulgence as 'God's man'...aren't they doing things just as bad, if not worse, than false teachers in the church?
