I wouldn’t believe the same things I believe now. I don’t think I am some kind of truth oracle.
But I wouldn’t believe Trump is an honest or God fearing man. That requires an emotional investment in the lie that I don’t think any version of me could sustain.
The divorces, the lechery, the misogyny, the racism, the repeated refusal to pay his contractors. (Theft)
Those are matters of public record. They vastly predate his status as a politician. Trump was a real life movie villain back in the 1980’s when Back to the Future was made.
If I was still a Christian hearing my pastor sing Trump’s praises every week would make me question the pastor, and if the congregation stuck by him I would question the whole church.
I think those are fair criticisms of Trump’s moral character, and evidence that he is not a person worthy of admiration and praise from a pastor or as a man of faith and religion. It’s pretty clear, to me at least, that his religion is a tool to appeal to a certain political base.
But this is not unique among politicians. At that level of politics, morality and character are whatever they need to be in order to get votes from their base.
So different news sources simply down play the bad aspects of his character and emphasize the good. They also amplify wrongdoing of his opposition, focus on injustice towards him, and discuss all the bad things that will happen if the opposition wins. It’s all the same tactics preying on people’s emotions and basic instincts, just spun up a little differently.
I don’t know what value or use it is to know these things, or dwell on them. Each of us still comes back to the values we hold closest, and support whichever candidate best represents those values, knowing that they will never be fully or perfectly represented.
I wouldn’t believe the same things I believe now. I don’t think I am some kind of truth oracle.
But I wouldn’t believe Trump is an honest or God fearing man. That requires an emotional investment in the lie that I don’t think any version of me could sustain.
The divorces, the lechery, the misogyny, the racism, the repeated refusal to pay his contractors. (Theft)
Those are matters of public record. They vastly predate his status as a politician. Trump was a real life movie villain back in the 1980’s when Back to the Future was made.
If I was still a Christian hearing my pastor sing Trump’s praises every week would make me question the pastor, and if the congregation stuck by him I would question the whole church.
I think those are fair criticisms of Trump’s moral character, and evidence that he is not a person worthy of admiration and praise from a pastor or as a man of faith and religion. It’s pretty clear, to me at least, that his religion is a tool to appeal to a certain political base.
But this is not unique among politicians. At that level of politics, morality and character are whatever they need to be in order to get votes from their base.
So different news sources simply down play the bad aspects of his character and emphasize the good. They also amplify wrongdoing of his opposition, focus on injustice towards him, and discuss all the bad things that will happen if the opposition wins. It’s all the same tactics preying on people’s emotions and basic instincts, just spun up a little differently.
I don’t know what value or use it is to know these things, or dwell on them. Each of us still comes back to the values we hold closest, and support whichever candidate best represents those values, knowing that they will never be fully or perfectly represented.