Friday 7 August 2020

God has entered the presidential election campaign

At some point God often enters an election. In the US presidential election campaign Donald Trump who clearly believes he has a divine link to the Almighty, has made the claim that Joe Biden, his Democrat rival, is against God and against the Bible and that if he gets elected president he will hurt God. It's a pretty bizarre accusation seeing as how Biden has always emphasised the importance of faith in his life. But God is now an issue. I don't know what was behind Trump's accusation. It came out like he knew something we didn't but basically he must have thought it was a good campaign idea and it probably is, especially in the US where religion and God and the Bible are put on the same pedestal as the constitution and the right to carry guns. Tony Blair when he was prime minister once gave a hint that he was a chosen one (by God) when he glanced upwards when he was asked a question about how he had made a certain decision. He may have been joking but somehow I doubt it. Trump I'm sure feels he is a chosen on. So if he loses the November 3 election and Biden sweeps into the White House where will God fit in then? Mind you, if Trump loses to Biden, God and the Bible are the last things he will be thinking about. His first and only thought will be that he was somehow robbed, either by the mail voting system or by the Chinese.

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