So, it seems once again, when Jesus comes to your bed and speaks to you as you sleep and you wish to be a politician, often times not just a politician but President of the United States, you might want to question if indeed that was Jesus discussing the US Constitution or perhaps the result of eating too much too late at night. We all have been privy to Republican politicians, all who have had the desire to become president, all who have told us it was Jesus who prompted their foray into the presidential field, and all of them stood no chance in winning their party’s nomination. Just ask Palin, Santorum, Gingrich, Perry, Huckabee, and now Cruz. I have to wonder if in fact someone was acting as a political pundit while these characters were sleeping, who might that have really been?
What a quandary, having Jesus urge you run for office then abandoning you for a thrice married man, an adulterer, a man of gluttony and a guy who swears he need not ask Jesus for forgiveness, EVER. Now I am not a Christian, but living in America I have certainly been privilege to the wonders of Christianity, the good, the bad and most recently the ugly. I suppose anyone can believe in their God as they see fit. Sarah Palin knows that teaching sex education is against her God’s belief, and also knows that no matter how many times you have unprotected sex, one day abstinence will find you, Sarah has stated that Jesus will give Bristol as many chances as she needs. Ted Cruz was told by his dad that he will be the next Prophet, because the Jesus Raphael Cruz believes in hates those homosexuals, is nervous about who is pooping and peeing, and of course loves himself a man who has disdain for truth and loves him a good lie or two or fourteen hundred. Of course Jesus does talk to wanna be presidential candidates, like Paul Ryan because the Jesus, Paul (Eddie Munster) Ryan believes in thinks poor people are lazy, kids from families of poverty should not eat school lunches if they cannot afford them and of course give to the rich first and wait, and wait, and wait for their wealth to trickle down.
As a man who happens to be Gay, Jewish, and a Senior Adult, who happens to be have friends of color, a daughter, sisters and great female friends, who has worked with people with disabilities, whose friends served in the military, I have been quite cognizant of how often Jesus has been used as a scapegoat for supposedly “Christian” Folk bigotry and bias. I have listened as it was because of Jesus that Ministers, never wanted the colored to marry the white, how Jesus insisted that poor people are takers, how if Jesus had a gun in his robe he would not have been crucified. I have been lectured that war is a Christian value, that marriage is between a man and a woman so pay not attention to the adulterers because they will be born again, and again. I have heard that history is all wrong indeed this was and is a Christian nation. So, when I hear politicians posturing and pretending Jesus choose them to run for President, I wonder, again how come he choose Donald Trump?
