Forgive Me if I Cannot Forgive Him
At the risk of having people immediately delete this message for fear of being preached to, I begin by saying I am a Christian. Please don’t hit the delete button yet. I don’t believe being a Christian makes me any better or worse than anyone else. I understand there are many different religions and many different visions or beliefs about a Supreme Being. Although the
specific details may differ from one another, religions from every corner of the world share several common threads.
Just a quick aside . . . I am not a flat earther, so I am not sure how a spherically shaped world can have corners. But I digress.
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I searched core principles of religions from around the world and found this short list:
The Golden Rule
Compassion and charity
Truth and integrity
Self-Restraint
Reverence for a higher order
These five tenets appear in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and many other spiritual teachings. I hope that when all is said and done, it will be said that I did a decent job of living up to these basic premises. That said, I struggle with the fact that I am a citizen of a country whose leadership is straying further and further from these ideals. On many levels, the president and the people he has positioned around him have taken paths opposed to these teachings.
Maybe I am not that great a Christian because forgiveness is a huge part of Christianity, and I have not been able to find it in my heart to forgive Trump. I am fairly sure that I never will. I can’t look past the pain, death, and destruction he has caused and continues to cause in our country and the world. I can’t look past the conviction for sexually assaulting a woman and additional accusations from many women. I cannot look past the connection to Epstein, the 30 felony convictions, the death and destruction he has caused in Iran, the East Wing ballroom debacle, the Kennedy Center takeover, the murder of over 200 in boat bombings, the fake university fraud, the crypto caper, the money spent on gold in the White House, the
bribe offer for votes, January 6 th , the tariff damage, the Rose Garden demolition, worldwide humanitarianism spending freezes, money scams, the thousands of lies, the vaccine damage, immigrant murders, explosion of the deficit, alienating trading partners, the ballroom, the Hitler-like pledge he asked his few remaining supporters to repeat, and so many more
unlawful and horrible actions. The sad truth is that this is just the short list. And to make it worse, he is becoming more removed from reality daily, as confirmed by his statements around 9/11.
I know it is a bit ironic that I am asking forgiveness for not being able to forgive, but his actions are pure evil. We need to stop this downward spiral. We need to take back the House and Senate if we have any hope of salvaging our representative democracy. I ask all who stuck with me to this point to please cast your midterm vote to oust all who still support
Trump. Vote like America’s future depends on it, because it does.
