The linguistic division into believers and non-believers already creates a wrong idea linguistically.
Both are exclusively believers, because they have no rational proof that God exists or does not exist.
So, the unbeliever is of course a believer, but he has a different faith. In his possibility of knowledge he is not above the one who believes in God.
The author of these lines is a deeply religious Christian of Catholic denomination, because he sees love as the comprehensive structure of this world and sees this structure of man embedded in the love of God. Christian faith thus naturally refers to Christ, who does not invoke worldly power against the powerful, but realizes in love the only power that does not build up any coercion and inevitability that people so often want to see, so that their idea of good and evil is realized in each case. However, this Christ dies humbly on the cross, thus referring to love, which does not build up any coercion and gives the highest possible freedom in decision.
To strictly merge man’s decisions and events based on man’s decisions with the will of God and to see them as a unity is simply unchristian.
Assyrian, Babylonian or ancient Egyptian rulers staged themselves as the image of God or almost godlike and thus claimed a comprehensive power, which was now enforced with the “higher power” over anxiety.
In the long history of mankind, powerful people have repeatedly abused God to exercise their power. A long history of abuse by the powerful. Blasphemy is the mockery of the beliefs of a religion, a public damage to the beliefs. To claim God for oneself in such a way that certain events have only taken place in a certain way through the intervention of God is an unreasonable claim and abuse of God, and shall serve only the own power interests.
If you take historical events of any kind, God has been abused again and again for these power interests.
In America, the second introductory speech of President Lincoln, on March 4, 1865, after a traumatizing civil war that wore the Americans down against each other as enemies, should be vividly remembered in America:
“Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes his help against the other. It may seem strange that anyone would dare to ask a righteous God for help to wrestle his bread out of the sweat of other people’s faces but let us not judge lest we be judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. The question of neither of them has been fully answered. The Almighty has His own goals. “Woe to the world because of the offenses; for it must be necessary that insults come, but woe betide him through whom the insult comes.”
How much the tradition of the Republican Party has been dragged away from its own noble principles by Trump and dragged down into lies, anxiety-mongering, greed for power and insults!
So many Republicans have already turned away from Trump’s constant insults with pride and dignity and now even recommend voting for Harris. They are right from their great tradition:
“but woe betide him through whom the insult comes.”
If Jesus wanted something, it is to create community, and that is also the deep structures of man, which can also be justified exclusively rationally.
The commandments of God, which are firmly anchored in the Christian self-understanding, are aimed at building up community between people and with God and condemning everything that is harmful, i.e. sinful.
The lie, however, shatters trust and destroys community, turns feigned love into a seduction without content and is therefore profoundly unchristian.
Hardly anything else is more unchristian than the lie.
Lies are not opinions to argue about. And lies can kill. They kill in many ways. Lies always have a hidden interest that should not be revealed to others. In this way, they destroy the community of men and fellowship with God in a devious and infamous way.
Trump’s interest in power through lies, with which he fuels people’s general existential anxiety and thus drives them into a fear-ridden world of imagination created by him and then presents himself as a messianic savior in complete shamelessness, can only be classified as deeply un-Christian.
Trump, by his lies, is making this America small and miserable and would lead it into an undemocratic America of anxiety, in which this great community that the US still is increasingly disintegrating.
Therefore, one must get back as soon as possible to what has made America really great:
Christian love, freedom and solidarity gained from it, love that has anchored itself in democracy and that has found its existential expression in their respective histories in such great republican figures as James Madison or Linkoln.
If this “Make America great again” is to have any meaning, it is “Make America love again”.
This means that the wounds that this presidential candidate has already inflicted on America in his unchristian and undemocratic behavior must be healed, regardless of party affiliation. It is abundantly clear: A Christian cannot actually vote for Trump.
