anne mikolay 2018This morning, I saw something on the internet that prompted me to question the reasoning of the American people, an epitome so utterly preposterous I turned to snopes.com for explanation. Snopes confirmed the offending paradigm, which drew a parallel between Jesus Christ and Donald J. Trump, was real.

In November, 2018, social media reported that a billboard equating Donald J. Trump with Jesus Christ had been erected in St. Louis, Missouri. The billboard featured President Trump's likeness, coupled with the words "Make the Gospel Great Again" and "The Word Became Flesh…" The implication here is difficult to miss. Information technology's as well blasphemous.

Thankfully, after much backlash, DDI Media, the owners of the billboard, removed the advertisement paid for past the facebook grouping, MGGA (Make the Gospel Bang-up Over again). MGGA had also used the epitome in question as their facebook embrace. Prompted past protests from "liberals and atheists" who allegedly "drowned out the voices of Christians in this country", MGGA closed their facebook page, but denied equating President Trump with Christ, stating "we prayed that the facebook folio would exist a community for fellow Christians to be encouraged at what God is doing in the world and to find out how they could, like our president, be a part of being God's presence in making America great." Additionally, MGGA described its mission as follows: "Nosotros believe God has given American Christians His earthly messenger – Donald J. Trump. We follow his words in organized religion each day!"

You're kidding me, correct? How misguided can Christians exist?

Let'due south break this downward. Despite MGGA's denial, the billboard glaringly and daringly drew a parallel between Donald J. Trump and Jesus Christ. If that was not the intention, MGGA's marketing team needs to rethink their strategy going forrard.The bulletin they shared on Interstate 170 in St. Louis Canton, Missouri, and daily on facebook, smacked of idolatry. The proof is in the first commandment: "I am the Lord your God: you shall not have strange Gods before me." The billboard finer elevated Trump to a divine status no homo is worthy of. No homo being is like Jesus Christ, and no 1 should make such a sacrilegious claim. No human is to be worshipped or revered or followed "in organized religion each 24-hour interval".

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Additionally, in restricting their mission to "make the gospel corking again" to "American Christians," MGGA is diametrically opposed to the all-inclusive teachings of Christ. An estimated 2.two billion Christians live throughout the world. If I recall my catechism correctly, Jesus intended "the good news" for all who would open their hearts and receive it. He didn't specify living in America as a requirement. And while we're discussing God's messengers on world, permit us consider the character of those God allegedly chooses to work through, including politicians and clerics, and permit us bear in heed the dangers of bullheaded worship and disregarding the fruits of the spirit.

The offensive electronic billboard, you may correctly betoken out, was taken down in 2018, and is old news, so why talk about information technology now? Because its point was made and withal circulates on social media; its bulletin is alive and well and dangerous. One too many people believe Donald J. Trump is God'southward perfect messenger on world. Similar MGGA, one too many people, blindly "follow his words in faith every twenty-four hours". There is but one private we should unquestionably follow, and it's not Donald Trump.

It is, of course, our constitutionally protected prerogative to support the political candidate of our choice and to express that support any manner nosotros meet fit. Information technology is also our responsibility, every bit Christians, to temper our free will with reason and respect.

Food for thought:

Matthew 7:16-17 "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every practiced tree bringeth forth fruit; but a decadent tree bringeth along evil fruit."

one John 2:3-4: "And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we go along his commandments. Whoever says "I know him" but does non keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him."

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Anne M. Mikolay joined The Atlantic Highlands Herald as a columnist in 2008. Prior to penning "The Armchair Critic," Anne wrote feature articles for The Monmouth Journal. Her work has appeared in national... More than past Anne Mikolay