Metacrock's Blog

The upshot of this politicization of the gospel is to produce a leader like Trump. A con man with no regard for human life and no understanding of human behavior.

So how do Trump-supporting evangelicals square their supposed belief in the literal truth of every word of the Bible with Trump’s monstrous behavior and policies? This is a guy found liable in civil court for sexual assault, and credibly accused of similar behavior by 15 other women. A guy who has been married three times. A guy who has been charged with 91 felonies. A guy who is about to go on trial for allegedly illegally covering up a $130,000 hush money payment to a porn star he committed adultery with four months after his current wife gave birth to their son. A guy who rather than displaying Christian humility and charity, compulsively boasts about himself with every other word out of his mouth, and positively wallows in the personal excesses of wealth. A guy whose policy agenda would snatch health insurance from tens of millions, viciously punish unauthorized immigrants, cut taxes on the rich, and on and on,1

Trump appears to be a major threat to civilization, For example,he keeps bragging about what great accomplishments he's made, but even his major underlings do not realize the harm he has done. Example: only the department of energy has the expertise to know if Iran can build a nuclear weapon at this stage. But Trump officials have not even asked them because as Trump said "they are not military what do they know?" No one likes the government but the truth is over the course of the 20th century the feds built a vast data collectivization machine in the various federal agencies. All Trump has done is to destroy that data collection/dissemination ability. Another example thanks to Trump “the public no loner has access to the major data on global warming."2 He rolled back over 100 environmental regulations that are crucial in savibg lives.3

In 2000, 2004 and again in 2010, the Clean Air Task Force issued studies based on work by Abt Associates quantifying the deaths and other adverse health affects attributable to the fine particle air pollution resulting from power plant emissions. Using the most recent emissions data, in this 2014 study, CATF examines the continued progress towards cleaning up one of the nation's leading sources of air pollution. This latest report finds that over 7,500 deaths each year are attributable to fine particle pollution from U.S. power plants. This represents a dramatic reduction in power plant health impacts from the previous studies....Our 2004 study showed that power plant impacts exceeded 24,000 deaths a year, but by 2010 that had been reduced to roughly 13,000 deaths due to the impact that state and federal actions were beginning to have.  4That is what Trump rolled back.

Trump has made many serious attempts to destroy democracy. One such case, he threatened the Georgia Secretary of State, Raffensperger, with Criminal Charges for Not Faking Votes! (Brennan Center For Justice).5

https://www.gcrr.org/addendum-b

Here is a list of about 70 the failings of Trump. The list was compiled by a non profit non a,inedthy8bj tank for religious scholars.

1 Ryan Cooper,"The Pious One, Donald Trump."Tne American Prospect (April 4, 2024) https://prospect.org/politics/2024-04-04-pious-one-donald-trump/

2 Face The Nation, TV news program, CBS, September 30, 2018

3 Nadja Popovich et al “Trump Administration rolled back more than 100 Environmental Rules,” New York Times, (Jan. 20, 2021 )

4 Clean Air Task Force, Clean Air Task Force 114 State Street 6th Floor Boston, MA 02109 quoted in “Trumos war in breathing: Jospeeh Hinman Metacrock blogm Ict 5 2024 https://metacrock.blogspot.com/2024/10/trumps-war-on-breathing.html

5 Fact Check: “Trump’s Georgia Call to Raffenspergerm” Brennan Center for Justice. (July 27, 2023)

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/fact-check-trumps-georgia-call-raffensperger