Water Torture courtesy of wikipedia.org
Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, recently sent this public message to the president: “God spared you in Butler, Pa., to be the most consequential president in a century—maybe ever.” (“They Said What?” Freethought Today, Aug. 2025, pg. 19) Blind faith, like his and that of other Evangelicals, has empowered a would-be king and threatened America’s civil liberties.
Remarkable as it seems, Trump’s faithful will never abandon this 34-count felon, even though a simple reading of the 10 Commandments–Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish—should expose his shortcomings.
Thou Shall Not Kill: Supporting the massacre in Gaza disqualifies him. So does his decision to defund USAID, a projected loss of 14 million lives.
Thou shalt Not Commit Adultery: No comment necessary.
Thou shalt not steal: Trump fined for defrauding students at Trump University.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Obama cheated in the 2020 election.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife: No comment necessary.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods: https://fpif.org/trumps-dirty-money/
His followers extend him their forgiveness because he delivers. Already, he has rid them of the Johnson Amendment. That provision in the U.S. tax code prohibits all 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations from endorsing or opposing political candidates. Now that the amendment will no longer be enforced, the pulpit can be transformed into a place where money changers are welcome.
Encouraged by their success, and despite the rapid growth of Islam in the country, their next goal is to install chaplains in every school across the nation. They presume a dose of Christianity encourages ethical behavior. The data doesn’t support them. Less than 1% of the current U.S. federal prison population identifies as atheists. The rest claim to have a religion. (“In The News,” Freethought Today, Aug. 2025, pg. 5)
Another error pious people make is to assume they know God’s will. If that were true, if God’s will were clear to all, then history would make no mention of holy wars. A greater reality is that a cockroach is more likely to understand Hamlet than a finite mind is to understand an infinite one.
To imagine that prayer is a means for negotiating with God is also folly. Prayer has no power to influence the course of human affairs. What’s more, God is defined as an omnipotent and omniscient Being. To pray is to suggest that God has made a mistake, a profane inference.
Armed with their presumptions, Evangelicals make no apology for intruding upon the lives of others. The excuse is “to save souls.” In reality, their faith is their cudgel to remake others in their image. If allowed, they would have us dress like them, behave as they do, and mirror their beliefs.
Further, they will employ any means, lawful or unlawful, to achieve that end. Persecution, prosecution, or, as in days of old, torture and death have been the acceptable means of persuasion. In its best light, their attitude is condescending. At its worst, their conduct is both prejudicial and cruel.
All that each of us knows of life on earth is that freedom is a natural longing. We hear it first in an infant’s cries when confined to its crib. That some among us should claim freedom for themselves and deny it to others is a sin. I am not the first to recognize this. Roger Williams, a minister in colonial times, described zealots as those who “turn their faith into a means of temporal power.” (American Gospel, by Jon Meacham, Random House large print edition, 2006, pg. 69.)
No society can survive where, by design, some enjoy greater liberty than others; or more equality than others; or more privilege than others. Nature dictates otherwise. She would have us rise or fall according to our talents and dispositions. If the pious are determined to overrule natural law and the diversity that gives it strength, then they must be resisted.
The American Constitution wasn’t designed to support a king, and the concept of The Chosen is an anathema.
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