Here’s one of the most enjoyable sights to watch during this election cycle: how religious right leaders willingly abandon any sense of principle in order to justify their support for Donald Trump. There’s a long and hilarious list of reasons, straight from the the text, all of which ignores the simple fact that Trump is the least religious presidential candidate since, well, ever. The most religious candidate in this campaign is, of course, Hillary Clinton, a devout Methodist.
Obviously, capturing the presidency and the all-important fifth vote on the Supreme Court is far more important than practicing the values the religious right foists on the rest of us. The ends seem to, ahem, to trump the means, not matter how distasteful.
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If anything, Trump is the antithesis of religious virtue. His life is a recap of the seven deadly sins writ large.
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Here are some prime examples of how Trump illustrates the worst vices in the Christian tradition, mostly in his own words.
Pride
Like you have to ask. Trump is a walking seminar in narcissism; at least one psychologist is using tapes of him to teach about the personality disorder. By his own account, Trump is never wrong. “I think apologizing’s a great thing, but you have to be wrong,” he has said. “I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I’m ever wrong.” This extends to asking God for forgiveness for his sins. Apparently, Trump has none worth bothering the Almighty about. “Why do I have to repent or ask for forgiveness, if I am not making mistakes?” Trump asked.
Greed
“My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy, greedy,” Trump said in January. “I’ve grabbed all the money I could get. I’m so greedy.” Even as a candidate, Trump is out to get as much money for himself as possible. His campaign’s latest financial disclosure show that he jacked the rent up on his headquarters more than four-fold once he stopped self-funding his campaign. Basically, he’s using even his own political supporters to further enrich himself. Sorry, suckers! So far, his campaign has paid Trump-owned entities more than $7 million.
Lust
Trump is a serial adulterer. And that’s one of his better qualities. A slew of women have come forward to recount how Trump sexually harassed them. His interest in beauty pageants wasn’t just financial; he boasted that when he bought the Miss Universe pageant “the bathing suits got smaller and the heels got higher.” And if that’s not proof enough, remember the time Trump joked about lusting after his own daughter? Not that Trump cares. As he put it, “You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.”
Anger
What can you say about a man who picks a fight with a microphone? Trump erupts in rage whenever things aren’t going his way or when anyone calls him on his nonsense, abusing his own beleageured staff members who are doing their best to prop up an idiot. Worst still, the anger is contagious. His campaign is all about fueling the fury of his supporters, ridiculing anyone who looks different at his rallies, including encouraging violence against protesters.
Gluttony
Trump is a famous fast-food aficionado. “The Big Macs are great,” he enthuses. “The Quarter Pounder. It’s great stuff.” Not just McDonald’s: his love of caloric overage extends to Burger King, Wendy’s and KFC. Of course, it helps when you have Chris Christie around to fetch your Happy Meal.
Envy
When your IQ is “one of the highest” (relative to what, God knows), and you have “the world’s greatest memory,” really, why should you envy anyone? But Trump has his weaknesses. For one, there’s his man-crush on Vladimir Putin, whose authoritarian power he clearly wishes he possessed. But it’s not just Vlad. Trump recently tried to downplay the Hollywood powerhouses behind Hillary Clinton’s campaign, like Meryl Streep and Beyonce, saying that they “aren’t very hot any more.” You can sense the note of jealousy from the man whose biggest celebrity supporters are the likes of Scott Baio and Antonio Sabato, who barely make the list any more.
Sloth
This sin may seem to be a bit outside of Trump’s usual behavior, but in fact, his entire presidential campaign is a testament to laziness. Trump hasn’t done any of the hard work of building an actual campaign structure, preferring instead to rely upon the Republican National Committee to do all the heavy lifting for him. Add the fact that Trump can’t be bothered actually learning about anything, even about nuclear policy, instead trusting his “gut,” and he might as well be hanging upside down from a tree by three toes.
Mo Bro
Rather than boost the unboostable candidacy of Hillary Clinton, the institutionalized left (of which this site is a loyal arm) continues their attacks from the bottom of the liberal barrel, this time incorporating . . . Christian dogma?
Such strategies reek of desperation and day-old mackerel, and it shows.
Kangol
Trump’s a misogynistic, narcissistic, psychopathic, pathologically lying monster. His father was a KKK member, and they both have a long history of overt r@cial discrimination. He even called for five innocent black and latino kids to be executed in 1989, and never admitted he was wrong in doing so. The Birther filth just hired not only a chief participant in Bridgegate but Steven Bannon, the wife-beating, election-fraud committing, anti-Semitic, hom0phobic ex-CEO of Breitbart. Trump is the absolute opposite of everything Christ in the New Testament talks about, but he’s the tribune of white supremacy, so the Alt-Right, including hom0nationalists, and Talibangelical “Christians” are supporting him. They have found their new anti-Christ to burn the entire GOP down to the ground!
Paco
You could go to sites with a right wing agenda instead. Oh wait, guess you can’t. I’ve seen the comment sections of the right wing sites and they are virulently homophobic. You’ll just have to continue suffering with the truth about Trump being written about here.
I’m surprised there isn’t a right wing gay site called Closet or something. There should be.
Paco
@Mo Bro: My comment was for you.
Chevelter
Google “Profile of the Sociopath” and read the definition(s). It’s Trump to a T.
leobaga
You just defined Hillary, Queerty.
Alistair Wiseman
@Kangol:
“Put the keyboard down, Mr. Kangol. It is time for your medication.”
leobaga
Hillary’s just been exposed for what she is — just a typical politician who will say and do anything to get elected.
Hillary Clinton had the chance to make gay rights history. She refused.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/hillary-clinton-had-the-chance-to-make-gay-rights-history-she-refused/2016/08/28/843a5cfc-58cf-11e6-9767-f6c947fd0cb8_story.html
CWM85
Hey Queerty Hillary had a mentor was was a klansman and her hero was the founder of planned parenthood who said she wanted to get rid of black race. But of course you all ignore that and super predators remark and she started birther issue and mocked MLK… and mock bloack voters in selma with her fake accent… yeah Hillary such a champion of equality but she pays women less and tales money from middle east countries that abuse women and execute gays. Not all of us will vote blindly this fall.
mw11
LOL, one of the commenters couldn’t breathe during his vicious, nasty labeling of people. Wow, for such a progressive Gay person, he sure has a lot of hate and will blame you for it. Probably he will put his nasty labels on a poster and march in the next Pride Parade.
But don’t bother in their negativity.
The country is moving forward. Everyone knows it. That’s why 100 percent of the media is negative on Trump, but even for Stein and Bernie. That’s why it’s a complete media blackout. On a bunch of issues like Wikileaks on why they know DNC tried to rig the election toward someone’s favor, why all their DNC senior officials had to resign in shame and give you other media distractions. Some of those officials who resigned in shame will be apart of the new administration.
The establishment knows it, fears the truth, and is doing everything to fund, finance, deflect, lie and distract you.
Don’t you know, men, that, many, many, many more Straight and Gay MEN watch a Queer blond straight gay conservative 30 year old millennial guy on Breitbart rather than the old, nasty, one-sided divisive politics. On an article, he gets 10,000 comments versus Queerty’s whopping 10. The point is not about that journalist, but just one example how the Gay world is dramatically changing.
What happened at the DNC should further show any man that there are serious problems in your politics. DNC Flag burnings, new gender-neutral potty-training, civil unrest, immigration disasters, rapes in Cologne, academic political correctness and new sensitivity training included.
Things are changing so have faith for the few men who have faith and value the Truth. The Truth always wins.
robho3
David ? David ? Where your snaky comment that irritates everyone??? We are all waiting.
DCguy
@Mo Bro:
Please detail out your complaint. Jesus spoke against divorce, naming it a breach of the Ten commandments, and Trump bragged about sleeping with another woman while still married. Direct violations of what right wing Christians claim to care about.
By their being unconcerned they have shown it’s all about bigotry with them not religion.
And by your automatically defending any anti-lgbt politician you show its the same with you.
MediaGuy
@Kangol: and HRC called blacks “super predators” and said they all need to go to jail. talk about rac*ist. that 1%’er wants her world to be all white and rich.
Timversion34
I respect the Author’s article, and he knows a lot of facts about Donald Trump. However,I believe in God and yet I am a sinner,so I am not going to cast the first stone. Not at Mr. Trump or anyone else for that matter. I just see our precious nation ripped apart under the policies of the administration of President Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton has been a key member of this administration and electing her president will be AT LEAST four more years of the same failed policies. Donald Trump is the only viable candidate for president who has proposed a change. Like him or not, he has pledged to make America great again. I intend to try and give him a chance to put our country on a different path. I will not judge Donald Trump as a person, but I hope to be able to call him the next President of the United States of America.