The Golden Calf with a Golden Toilet Is Signing and Selling Bibles
The grievous Christian hypocrisy of Trump’s latest gimmick
A twice-impeached former president, the cherished candidate of the American Evangelical right is campaigning for a second term from multiple courtrooms and between hearings. And he is signing and selling Bibles from the campaign trail.
We Christians used to be mocked for being too prude, too naive. For a brief moment in the violent and sordid history of Christianity, back when “square” was a colloquial insult, social naivete, and myopic sexuality were American Christians’ greatest failures.
Now, it’s our hypocrisy. We are not the victims, my friends. In worshipping a golden calf, an unrepentant career criminal, we have again become the perpetrators.
My fellow Christians, before we explore the heresy of signing and selling Bibles for profit, let’s review Donald Trump’s current criminal and civil trials. While criminal investigations started in early 2021, Trump has been on trial seven times since he left office¹ for:
Criminal Trials
- 34 felony counts of violating corporate record-keeping laws for falsifying business records in the first degree. “The case centers on payoffs to two women, porn star Stormy Daniels…
