03/17/2024
The role of 'Christian Nationalists' seems a paradoxocal one for many. Trump seems the antithesis of what Christianity claims to be about. From this Pagan's perspective it is not paradoxical at all, sadly. Here is a piece I recently posted on my own FB site:
The Evangelical love affair with Donald Trump might be 2000 years in the making. Christianity has always been an unstable melding of love and generosity and forgiveness and a harsh deity who will eternally punish all who do not live up to his standards. Different Christians come down on different sides of this tension.
For 2000 years many, especially those who hate the world we live in the most, have been anticipating Armageddon and the Antichrist. For 2000 years they have been sending mental energy into this image until it has a well-developed reality at the level of thought forms. If we take Revelations reasonably literally, as this post shows, Donald Trump is an extraordinarily good image of the Antichrist, as he seems to have not one redeeming human characteristic.
But why would so-called Christians be attracted to him? Here occult insights help.
Those Christians who have the least love in their hearts and the most anger towards those unlike themselves will find an energetically compatible image here, whereas the Jesus of love and forgiveness seems weak. They are the ones most invested in end times thinking and looking forward to the end of the world and destruction of those they dislike. It is the quality of their energy and not their explicit thinking that rules. They are hard of heart, vengeful, and cruel. Rejecting Jesus’ teachings themselves, they then fall into place with their opposite, without knowing it and so support a man who fits the character of their hearts.
They are attracted to Trump because he epitomizes an image they have built up even whole believing they are immune to its attraction. Which they would be, if they had much love in their hearts. But Evangelicals as a group have distinguished themselves by their disproportionate approval of torture back during the times of the Iraq War and have gotten no better since. Other Christians were often appalled by their approval of torture, but could not deny the truth.
Blinded by the closure of their hearts, they perceive of Trump as doing God’s will because he promises to hurt those they dislike. This is not a traditional Christian position, but in terms of many of the cruel and violent qualities of the deity they worship, fits.
My point is not that Revelations is true. It isn't. It is that those focused on it for generations upon generations have created a thought form that attracts them even while they think they serve Jesus.
