DANGER: The RNC says Trump has God on his side; they need to re-listen to the Dylan song

By PJ Grisar July 19, 2024

From "Forward" newsletter Jewish nonprofit Read the entire article here: 

If there was a theme to the final leg of the Republican National Convention, it was that God has a plan for former President Donald Trump. 

On Thursday, before Trump accepted his party’s nomination, pastor Lorenzo Sewell said that Jesus Christ himself saved Trump during last Saturday’s assassination attempt, preserving him “for such a time as this.” Rev. Franklin Graham said God spared Trump’s life and, in the aftermath, the candidate known for his bluster reexamined his life and reevaluated his priorities. 

Among the laity, Trump’s son Eric, addressing his father, said that through “the grace of God, divine intervention and your guardian angels above, you survived.” 

But it was Trump who surprised most in a rare moment of humble spirituality. With a bandage still on his injured ear, he described his brush with death, saying he would recount it just once, as it was “too painful to tell” again. 

But Trump said that as he ducked behind the podium, bleeding, he wasn’t scared. “In a certain way I felt very safe, cause I had God on my side.” 

Did I say Trump was humble? Maybe that needs rethinking. Such is the paradox of piety, that humility before one’s maker is often just a front for hubris. The claim that God has a rooting interest in your team ought to have been retired after 1963, when a prophet from Hibbing, Minnesota sang “With God on Our Side,”  about the many frightful causes that believed themselves to be blessed.

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