As a Christian my thoughts about Trump are that he is a sick, disturbed, self-absorbed little man whose "values", insofar as they could even so much be called such, are of such diametric opposition to Jesus Christ, Scripture, and the historic teaching of the Christian faith that they can only best be described as antichrist. Politically, Trump represents fascism in America, he has appealed to the basest and darkest impulses of humanity, scape-goated, worked tirelessly at undermining the most elementary principles of democracy and the American republic, sought to divide and sow division. A man of very few scruples, surrounding himself with spineless yes-men who would sell their own soul to the devil if it meant personal political gain. A burning chasm so utterly bereft of any semblance to morality or basic decency, a black void in which nothing exists except the idolatrous infatuation and adoration of the vices and lusts of the flesh.
Trump highlights and exemplifies the hollowness and emptiness that lay in the heart of America. A representation of the darker impulses of our collective id.
What has been made evident, even before the advent of Trump, is that the Church in the United States needs Jesus. Not the superficial plastic idolatrous caricature of Jesus, but Jesus Christ. It is only a church that has anathematized herself through her confession of a false gospel, and the preaching of another Jesus. A shipwrecking of faith by her allegiance to other lords and false gods, chasing after every wind of doctrine by false prophets, false teachers, and false apostles. Christ says to us, "I stand at the door and knock", let us therefore pray and ask that we might buy from Him pure silver and gold refined in the fire, let us return to the True Vine, let us drink of pure water, that we might have life.
Let us repent, and call on the Lord for mercy, let us cry out and pray that He give us drink and parch our thirst. Let us repent, and let go of our false gods and blasphemous lords, cleaving to Jesus Christ, in faith. Let us preach the Gospel without reservation, of the God who gives Himself away in love for the least and worst.
Let us pray that those in power repent, may they be transformed, may they hear our Lord's word, may they face the terror of the Law and repent, that they might hear and believe the Gospel; and upon hearing and believing, may they learn from Christ continually, and devote themselves to turn from wickedness and toward justice. Justice for the poor, justice for the hungry, justice for the oppressed, justice for those who mourn, justice for those who are weak, justice for those who have been crushed, justice for the least of these in our midst. May those to whom the seat of power has been granted use that seat of power for some semblance of good in this world, insofar as this can be done. Grant that we have men and women of peace, of truth, of justice, of compassion, and kindness. That they might be wise in their judiciousness and execution of civil power for the good of people who labor in this world.
-CryptoLutheran
