Compare and contrast:
Catechism of the Catholic Church:
675 Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.
676 The Antichrist’s deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgement. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, especially the “intrinsically perverse” political form of a secular messianism.
677 The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection. The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God’s victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven. God’s triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgement after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world.
As I have said before, I don’t think Trump is The Antichrist. But I think it is visible-from-space obvious that he is an antichrist. No pea soup vomit is required for the role. Just a will to create a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth–which he offers in spades and which the most wilfully blind people in US history, his conservative Christian supporters, swallow faster than Nazgul taking nine rings of power from Sauron’s hand. Anyone who watches that video without a chill of fear up their spine is what Scripture, again and again, calls a fool.
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Powerful propaganda there, textbook quality stuff.
This is why they responded so rabidly to the mother and child icon in Gaza, their consciences told them the truth, but it wasn’t compatible with their group-think.
Do you remember when that whole “prosperity” movement picked up speed in the 80s? Regular people were fascinated with the royal wedding, and shows like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, (I’m pretty sure that’s when I got my first taste of Trump )and Dynasty. Madonna was the unabashed Material Girl. My father gave me a book called Think and Grow Rich. I didn’t read it because it was boring, but I understood the concept: I needed to visualize what I wanted, to manifest it, and God wanted me to have it because he was triumphant, and I had chosen to be one of his own. So I set about making a giant poster that was about 5′ x 5′ of everything that I wanted n life. I looked at it every night as I was falling asleep and as I was waking up. I earnestly said my prayers with it in full sight. But an interesting thing happened. As I stared at it day in and day out, I knew something was off. It was almost like it became a gentle accusation instead. I knew that Christ stood with the poor and powerless, and any hope of being above anyone else in any way was contrary to the love of God. It particularly chastened me in the way I perceived the poor immigrants that served me. Even though I understood the truth, I didn’t feel any complete conversion in my heart–that also upset me. So I started to ask God to help me to not only see correctly, but to be moved by the truth as well. It didn’t happen overnight.
The evangelical prosperity movement seeped into the lives of regular Catholics too. Protestants have more of an excuse for not recognizing heresy because they don’t have a teaching church, but anyone who prays, and asks God for grace must have an uneasy conflict in their gut. I see it here and there in some Trump followers.
Just for clarification, what do you mean that Protestants “don’t have a teaching church?” I know that Anglicans do, and I think Lutherans, do, too. Do you mean Evangelicals?
Well, let me preface this by saying that my two Protestant daughters-in-law couldn’t be more Godly. One was raised Protestant by a Quaker mother (lovely, lovely lady)and the other has left the 7th Day Adventist church for a Baptist-ish church. Both women prove to me that we can know Jesus by Braille (aka the Holy Spirit). But let’s be honest, a teaching Church that can be traced to Peter is something not just great but something we should be so utterly grateful for. (The battle of life is hard enough!) Sadly, because of the way humans are, a teaching Church helps some and weirdly hinders others.
So, I was reading this post to my husband, which led me to show him your post on the picture of the Madonna and child, He brought up the important point that these people aren’t just “cleverdumb” as you say. They derive *pleasure* from seeing human beings suffer. It’s political porn for them.
Cruelty feels like power to the Cult.
Does Trump ever go to church on Sunday?
The Lincoln Project put out a spoof of that video titled “God Made a Dictator”:
https://youtu.be/xOi2cYz5nXE?si=0u584_WZW1BWRqsZ