Opinion/Editorial
JESUS WEPT!
In the Bible there is a verse about Jesus weeping over the body of Lazarus as he sat next to the man’s dead body. Jesus wept for his friend before he raised him from the dead and sent him on up to heaven. Today, in Western society, the phrase ‘Jesus wept’ is considered an expletive. This expletive is uncommonly used today simply because it’s considered blasphemous by so many Christians, and blasphemy is worse than using a normal expletive to so many. Donald Trump, last Sunday, used an image of himself photoshopped to show that he was either Christlike himself or quite possibly the returned Jesus so many have been waiting for. Jesus Wept! would seem to be a weak expletive to use to consider such an act of outright blasphemy and blatant violation of the first commandment. Mr. Trump’s portrayal, by putting the image you see at the head of this article on display to describe himself, isn’t really blasphemy in any official way, however. It’s rather a blatant display, common to therapists in nursing homes and assisted living centers used by some older people with dementia.
A second display, also very common, is near hysterical anger at either the most minor violations observed around them and, in particular, dedicated toward those who might exhibit or indicate any degree of disloyalty. A third display is falling asleep while sitting or even standing while viewing television or being visited by friends, relatives, and family. A fourth symptom is directing or wanting to direct violence, way beyond sanely appropriate, toward any person or entity deemed to be disloyal. This author has written about the divine right of kings, a mental construct wherein those rare humans who are given amazingly powerful positions over all others around them, to explain how the words and actions of some elevated individuals are not demented but merely incorporating a belief system that will allow for no reluctance or acceptance of guilt or responsibility for actions of the most disgusting kind. This is not the first time Donald Trump has associated himself with a deity, although he also gives every indication that he has no belief in God or even Jesus Christ in either his conduct or his exercise of any kind of worshipful behavior. Donald Trump uses the Christian religion, particularly the right-wing Christian evangelical organizations, to raise himself beyond criticism or accusation. Readers may recall that he deified the back seat driver of the F-15 shot down over Iran only a week ago, specifically his near miraculous rescue. In Trump’s mind, that event and the comparison made by Trump of the man’s Jesus-like rescue were probably the germination of the idea of taking over the role for himself.
Donald Trump’s four definitive symptoms of dementia, and there are more, as noted by anyone who watches his presentations on television nearly every day, plus his inability to have anyone gain notice over and above him, should serve for a huge warning fog horn going off every day and night- Fog horns were invented to warn ships of rocks in shallow waters ahead. This nation should have as giant country-covering fog horn going off for twenty-four hours a day as Donald Trump, along with his cabal of evil-doers (a term invented by George Bush Junior before he considered that it would be used to describe his own party) in the House, Senate, and Supreme Court are all passengers and crew aboard the greatest Ship of Fools to every sail the cultural ‘waters’ of the world and that ‘ship’ is sailing at speed toward the largest rocks ahead located not under shallow sea water but rising right up into the sky over the bow.
It can only be hoped and even prayed that some of the remaining half-sane members of the White House and Secret Service have squirreled away the nuclear codes located in the proverbial football, or articles like this of warning are going to be meaningless as the shipwreck just up ahead might be of dinosaur-destroying strength and potential exterminatory effect.
