Almighty’s Support Of Trump Raises Questions About God’s Competence
What do God and Willie Mays have in common? They both stayed in the game a year too long.
Millions of Evangelical Christians believe that Donald J. Trump is God’s personal choice to occupy the Oval Office. This unconventional opinion has triggered a movement within elements of the Christian community to consider the once unthinkable notion: “Is God too old for the job?”
For most people, Donald Trump is not the name that comes to mind when pondering who the religious among us will throw their political support behind.

Trump’s enthusiastic boast of random “pussy grabbing,” his cruel mocking of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, his long track record of not living up to his financial obligations, his numerous salacious interviews with Howard Stern, his repeated references to having sex with his own daughter, his well-documented adulterous affairs and divorces, and countless other non-pious utterances, should completely disqualify him from Christian’s consideration.
But it hasn’t. Why not?
According to retired history professor and Evangelical Christian, Wayne Flynt, the answer is simple: Christians are changing.
“The words of Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels, are less central to their thinking and behaviour, he says. Church is less compelling. Marriage is less important. Reading from a severely abridged Bible, their political concerns have narrowed down to abortion and issues involving homosexuality. Their faith, he says, has been put in a president who embodies an unholy trinity of materialism, hedonism and narcissism. Trump’s victory, in this sense, is less an expression of the old-time religion than evidence of a move away from it.”
So Christians no longer hold traditional Christian views? I don’t buy that for a minute. I think that the blame should be focused less on Christians and more on the ancient and quite possibly feeble Big Kahuna, God himself.
Let’s face it, God’s been around for a long time… 14 billion years give or take a week. To put the size of that number into perspective, that is the likely amount of time that will pass before the Seattle Mariners win the World Series.
But if God does exist, and he involves himself directly in the selection of political leaders, he has, at best, a spotty record. For every George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama, he also saddled us with Atilla the Hun, Idi Amin, Josef Stalin, Adolph Hitler, and Donald Trump. (No, I’m not comparing Trump to Hitler as there is no evidence that Trump can make the trains run on time).
God if you’re listening (and your believers say that you do hear everything), call it a day. Go to a nice beach with fancy cocktails. You might even be pleasantly surprised at the sight of some of your better looking creations playing volleyball.
Your accomplishments are nothing short of epic. To list all of the amazing things that have happened under your watch would take 14 billion years to complete, but I’ll name a few. The sun is awesome. So is the cotton gin and penicillin. Kudos on Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (not so much for Meet the Fockers). My father thought that Sophia Loren was heaven-sent. Who am I to argue?
But, with all due respect, you also have the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, the assassination of both JFK and Martin Luther King, Sandy Hook… and now Donald Trump!
God, you had a great run, you truly did, but, as I’m sure you know, Willie Mays hit .211 his final year.
Mays should have quit a year earlier and you should have too.
