For most people, the term religion stirs the image of churches or some form of clergy, and while there is certainly a lot of churches and clergy who fall into the category of religion, it's not exclusively the same. Religion is ritual, it's sometimes believing something in the face of evidence that it's not true (like global warming, that's a religion). It is also used as a excuse to compare ones self to others, or to compare the sins of two people and to judge one as better than the other based on this religion. And it's being used to excuse the outright hatred of our current president. I've heard and read in the last several years so many commentaries on how totally evil President Trump is, yet the evidence does not support this. Lately I read a commentary by a religious man who condemns people for following the president because he's allegedly told lies. (And I say allegedly only because the things that he's supposed to have lied about, he really didn't). Here's a news flash for you, you are a liar, so am I for that matter. In fact I have never met a person who has never told a lie. So for the self righteous writer who is passing judgment on the president for telling lies, have you sir never done so? That would be quite an achievement and I seriously doubt it. The claim is that President Trump lied about the Chinese virus, in various ways. But I have looked back at the time line. I find no-where that there is a lie. What I do find is a lot of misinformation was spread around between December and February, and still there is a lot of misinformation being spread today although not as much and people are starting to realize that so much of what we were told before was incorrect. (I'm not sure if that was intentional or not. If it was, then those were certainly lies).
Looking back at news releases, at different speeches, what I find is that the president was saying pretty much the same things that the media and doctors were saying at the same time. He is being blamed for over 200,000 deaths due to the virus, but that is certainly a lie, or at the very least a half truth. That 200,000 people have died this year is fact, that they HAD the virus may be fact, (we know for a fact that many hospitals were attributing all deaths to the Chinese virus regardless of the cause). So in essence there were people who died not necessarily due to the Chinese virus, but died "with" the virus. There is no way to tell how many would have lived or died had the virus never spread. What we really don't know is how many died explicitly due to the virus. And as it's been politically weaponized, we may never know. The initial news releases, back in December through mid February was that this is like a severe flu strain, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. It was also stated that for people who's immune system is not compromised, the probability of survival is quite high. In fact the survivability rate is above 96 percent.
I know that the socialists wanted President Trump to lock down the country back in late February-March. Believing that the virus could be stopped. It's a virus people, once released you can't stop it. I also know that a lot of people hoped that he would do so as it is an unconstitutional act and would actually be grounds for impeachment. What our president did was exactly what he was supposed to do, gave control to each sovereign state. Allow the governors and legislatures in each state set their own guidelines. And we saw, and are still seeing just who the dictators are.
I recall the initial reasons for restricting movements in the country, it was to flatten the curve. To prevent a huge influx and overwhelm the hospitals. The initial objective was not to wipe it out, you can't wipe it out, it's a virus and will be with us forever. But somewhere along the line it seems that people now believe the lock downs were to give time to find a cure or vaccine. Not!
But something else happens when a country is locked down, the economy begins to collapse. And thankfully our current president has enough business and economic sense to know that that is at least as deadly or more so than the virus. At some point one must make a decision, what has the potential to do more long term harm, and that is a very hard choice. The U.S. economy does not just affect those of us who live here, we are a world power and if our economy collapses there are global consequences. Plunging the country into a deep recession or even a depression would cause a significant amount of deaths also.
To date I cannot understand why so many people that I know hate our president. And don't try to tell me that you don't. I hear it in your voices when you talk about him, and it's evident in the things written and the gossip continuously spread. This is where the religion comes in. It's mostly self-righteous folks that I know who spew the hatred.
President Donald Trump is a flawed man. He has probably made some shady business deals, I'm certain that he's lied about some things. I don't know if he's cheated on his taxes, more likely simply manipulated the system as it's so complicated and hard to understand. I am also certain that he will do other things that people wold consider "sin". But I also believe that he has the best interest of this country in his mind and heart.
There was a man in history who committed adultery. Then he conspired to have the husband of the woman with whom he had the affair killed. Pretty much everyone I know today would condemn a man for such actions, yet King David is celebrated as a man after God's heart.
President Trump is flawed, no-man may know the heart of another. Put aside your hatred and pray for him.
