I read where Evangelicals are now saying that Trump used them. That one made me laugh but also made me angry. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to know that all along. He was asked what his favorite Bible verse was. He couldn’t quote a one. I would be willing to bet he didn’t even know what books that were referred to as the Gospel. You could tell he never even picked up a bible to read. The fact that he was willing to autograph one like an author should very disturbing to every Christian but it isn’t. Some of those Bibles are being auctioned off for over 30,000 dollars. He used the evangelicals for the purpose of continuing that grift that he was some great religious person set by God to save America. This was a man that had cheated on all three of his wives. He has had Children from three different women. He had broken just about every commandment that there was. He used the Evangelicals to their face and then laughed at them after he left the room.

I will tell you that the part of the Evangelicals that Trump used wasn’t their faith in the words of Jesus. It was their hate of things that Jesus never talked about. Homo Sexuality or Abortion. Trump fed their hate for the Gay and Lesbian community though the Gospel never did. If anything the Gospel preached tolerance not hates. He fed their hate for a group of people that really does them no harm. What gave the Evangelicals the right to judge other people? Certainly not anything in the Gospel. Trump used that hate. He did not use his love for Jesus because if he did he would have known that playing to your hate is not something that Jesus would have wanted him to do. 32 transgender people have been killed in the so far in the United States so far this year and the year is not over yet. When you demonize people for being different and unclean bad things will happen. Since 2017 there has been a 400 percent increase in hate motivated murders with a large increase in the Gay and Bi male community. Do we blame much of that on Trump or do blame much of that on the Evangelicals that have demonized people that do not conform to their beliefs. I will say that those beliefs do not come from the spoken words on Jesus. I think that the Evangelicals used Trump to unleash their hate as much as Trump used them to get elected. It was like a match made in hell. As I have been working on this there has been another shooting in Colorado. This was a hate crime targeting the Lesbian and Gay Community. I have read that there are 5 dead and at least 18 wounded. Is this the love that I was taught as a child when I attended church? This is hate pure hate and the church owns that hate.

Jesus was a man that walked among the poor. He was like a homeless man that needed people generosity to survive. What he had was the ability to bring out the best of people. His words were simple but powerful. His stories were simple but had great meaning. They were not told to any one group. They were told to all groups. When he talked he didn’t ask people if they believed in god. He didn’t ask what country they were from. He didn’t ask if they were gay or straight. When he talked he talked about how people should live together, how people should treat one another. His words were not one of hate and bigotry. He didn’t separate things into black or white. He did not walk around wishing harm on anyone. Today Religion especially the Evangelical religion is more about money and big business than it is about the words of Jesus. The net worth of Jesus when he died was about Zero. The net worth of Franklin Graham is estimated at 10 million dollars. I really do not think that is what Jesus had in mind when he sacrificed his life on the cross for all of us. I would like to believe that by the way that he lived he would have wanted the opposite of happen. They only people that I remember ever getting Jesus mad was the money people.

I know that people will ask if I consider myself a Christian and I will tell them “no”. I was raised to be a Christian but that faith has not followed me into my old age. Why? As you would have noticed in my writings that there are just too many conflicts within religion and how Jesus lived for me to want to have any part of it. In my opinion, too much of the Religious World has turned their backs on the words of Jesus. Words that were so powerful that a new religion was built around the words that he said. Not the Bible because it didn’t exist. It started with his words. Someone asked me if I believed that Jesus was the Son of God. My answer, I didn’t think it mattered, it was his words that mattered and that is what Jesus is to me. His Words. Words that are no longer followed as we are witnessing that 5 more people are killed and many more are wounded because they did not conform to what the church thinks they should be.

I have died once. I had a heart attack. My heart was stopped for over 6 minutes while my wife performed CPR on me. I guess it stopped again at one point on the way to the ER. I was, as my doctor told, me dead. I remember waking up 3 days later in the ICU to a nurse shining a light in my eyes and the touch of my wife’s hand. Someone asked me what I saw between Sunday to Tuesday and I told them that I saw nothing. No one talked to me. No white lights. I remember nothing. I have thought about that a lot. After an experience like that you really sit back and examine your life and the world around you. Is there a Heaven or a Hell? I don’t know but I can honestly say I didn’t see one or the other. I do know that what you leave behind is a measure on how you lived your life. I have two great sons and four wonderful grandchildren that I know will remember me and my wife long after we are gone. Just maybe my grandchildren will tell their grandchildren about Grandpa Dave. Maybe that is how we live forever.