For as long as it has been said that politics makes strange bedfellows–and it has been a while1–I would offer that there has never before been such a strange set as those joined in this year’s Trump campaign for U.S. president. Riding sidecars on Trump’s chariot toward ultimate power are one of history’s most inspiring and loving religious leaders and perhaps the most evil person to darken American politics.
The Bible tells a loosely similar story, but with a twist or two, in describing the Fall of Lucifer. Lucifer was once one of God’s most powerful angels, until his lust for worship caused him to rebel against the Creator, resulting in his fall from grace and eternal life to become the destroyer of worlds. It has been said that Lucifer took at least a third of the angels with him in his rebellion and fall, and that he did so by deceiving them with lies.2
What the Bible does not foretell is that Lucifer ever again joined forces with God or Jesus. His exile was to be in perpetuity. So: How in the world did we reach today’s pairing of this political Odd Couple? Continue reading “Running for President with Jesus and Hitler”
- The American writer Charles Dudley Warner offered this statement to the world in his 1870 book, My Summer in a Garden.[↩]
- See “What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible,” in The Collector.[↩]