But what if it had been Trump himself who had been shot away, and only Trump’s ear fragment had been saved by security? Could Trump’s meat ear rim itself have been persuaded to run for the presidency? Could Trump’s ear flesh fragment have beaten Biden in a democratic election? Almost certainly. And would an America governed by a small severed slice of Trump’s ear have offered the world a more secure future than an America governed by Trump, or an America governed by Biden? Again, the answer, sadly, is a resounding yes.
The American Christian right believes that Trump, despite his obvious moral corruption, is a massive tool of a God bent on shaping America into their own twisted theocracy. Evangelical Christian America believes their selectively myopic deity actually intervened to save Trump from the gunman, while leaving a heroic volunteer firefighter to take the bullet. Blessed are the firefighters. But how much more useful to this morally equivocating God is a simple severed ear, unencumbered by accusations that it tried to overturn an election, or paid an adult film star hush money, or stole classified documents, or sexually assaulted a woman in a department store. The ear would be innocent and pure and good, like Jesus, or the unborn child.
And if an ear had, as Trump did, repeatedly socialised with the unsavoury sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his young friends, it is unlikely it would have been able to do anything inappropriate, due to its being an ear. And should the ear be found to have lost the public trust, it could, due to its inability to defend itself or argue its case, be easily dispensed with by the Republicans without too much fuss. Ear today, gone tomorrow.
Christians always do this shit. “There was a 20 car pile up on the highway today. 8 died, 4 are in intensive care and might not make it. If I hadn’t spilled coffee on my pants this morning and had to change before leaving for work, I probably would have been car 21.” “Wow, God was looking out for you.” And God what… decided to smite the other people? The suggestion that God intentionally saved/spared someone from a tragedy means that God also intentionally didn’t spare those who were in the tragedy. You are implicitly judging those people to have deserved it. To have faced divine justice. I feel like they never think about that very obvious conclusion. Nevermind that it also undermines their belief that humans have free will if God is just tipping over coffee cups and deflecting bullets to manipulate outcomes of life and death.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. You don’t have to feel bad about not helping the poor and needy if God made them that way intentionally
They’re not giving their personal guardian angels enough credit also
I’ve seen this with “friends” saying that a kid being the only survivor of a plane crash in which there were more than a hundred passengers and crew, is “a miracle and prove that God is great!”
I unfriended those “friends.”