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This is Part Four. Part One is here.

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It seems that many Trump supporters feel some kind of Christian duty to vote for Trump. I don’t fully understand this for a number of reasons although tons of it is related to abortion. (from the last post.) 

Given the results of a recent American Family Survey, Republicans care about religion and Democrats care about racism (we’ll get to racism) but it seems this religion thing is important. 

I’ll be honest. I don’t really understand Christianity anymore. Yes, I was a pastor for 10 years. Yes, I preached out of the Bible - the main holy book for Christianity. Yes, I thought I understood it, but it’s why I left it. I don’t even know what it is anymore (more specifically pertaining to America and more specifically evangelicals) and I don’t like belonging to things that I don’t even know what they are. 

For the life of me I can’t figure out how Obama is not a Christian and Trump is. Or how a Christian can’t vote for Obama and can for Trump. Everything I ever learned about Christianity was that people who were Christians acted like Obama and did not act like Trump. I mean that.

“the understanding (of) Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we’re sinful and we’re flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace,” he added. “So that’s what I strive to do. That’s what I pray to do every day. I think my public service is part of that effort to express my Christian faith.” - Obama

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"I have great relationship with God. I have great relationship with the Evangelicals,

"I like to be good. I don't like to have to ask for forgiveness. And I am good. I don't do a lot of things that are bad. I try to do nothing that is bad.” - Trump

Okay… that is so damn confusing, just for starters.

I also can’t for the life of me understand how people can celebrate the death of someone - even if it is RBG - who was an arch nemesis. I just don’t get what I’m reading from modern day “pastors” in America. 

So I have to go to the only two things I know. There are two BIG differences between Obama and Trump.

First, the names. Christians can’t have names like Hussein. It’s a dead giveaway. I mean I have to assume this because I have no other reason. (But again Arab Christians who are often brought up in church and politics who we should care about because they are being persecuted - well I mean unless they are being persecuted by Israel, or one of our allies - are sometimes named Hussein. And they worship Allah which is just an Arab name for god and doesn’t mean they are terrorists. I digress.)

I think the name thing may have been forgivable but what isn’t forgivable is number two about Obama - he is a Democrat. And Trump is a Republican. 

It seems that being a Christian is being a Republican and not being a Christian is being a Democrat - I honestly can’t find another thing besides abortion - which we’ve already covered. Which means that Christians aren’t really Christians they are just Republicans - which is fine but I just wish they were honest about having two names for the same thing. 

Okay, so let’s pretend you’re a Christian who’s actually still reading and listening and hasn’t decided that Republican equals Christians and Democrats equal something else. This already puts you in the minority of Christian evangelicals so good on you! 

Let’s talk about Christianity. 

I won’t go into all the things about Christianity that disagree with Trump because this thing would be a thousand pages and people not interested in it would get more bored than they already might be. I’ll stick with two. 

First, Jesus said you can’t worship money and God. Can we talk about money next?