I wouldn’t single out Republicans. You have to include the liberal leaners who despise Trump, such as 99% of media.
And this is why I hesitated to comment. Even if you were right, which you are not, a cult is not defined as a group that hates someone, it's defined a one that venerates or has devotion directed toward a particular figure or object. So it's not applicable or germane to the word. Moreover,
most of those who criticize (not hate) Trump do so for legitimate reasons. That includes many who hold to conservative views like myself and many of his own party, so let's try and be accurate.
For example, on this international trip he is on now I hear many Republicans criticizing him for the same things that I have, and surely you don't think they hate him? That's a ridiculous generalization. It's easy to say people hate someone when they criticize them. We hear that in this forum every time someone says homosexuality is wrong, or when they say national Israel are not God's chosen people and so on and so forth. It's we hate this one or hate that group. Very easy to call it hatred when it's just righteous comment or just common sense criticism.
Every single late night news show is engrossed by Trump.
And they were engrossed by Johnson, Nixon, Bush, Clinton, Hillary and Obama, the difference is none of those people were vile, egotistical, narcissistic, antagonistic, braggadocious demagogues who distorted and lied as a rule of thumb. And none of them had a cult following who whined every time someone dared to make fun of or criticize them. Which they did every night on those very same late night entertainment or news shows.
Also you Philly. You are obsessed with everything Trump says or does.
You might be right about that. But his obsession against him is balanced by the cult of personality for him. Not saying he's right being so focused, just that I just think it's good to hear both sides of the story, since
clearly many would (and do) only give one side, and despises the other, whether they are accurate, truthful, right or wrong.
Doesn’t that qualify as cult like?
No, a cult is not a obsession to criticize someone. At least not in
any dictionary that I have ever read.
When your mind is constantly occupied by something, eventually that is what you become. You become what you despise.
So if he despises lies, distortions, deceit and demagoguery, he will become a liar, distorter, deceitful and a demagogue? I don't think that follows since our God despises those things also.
We as Christians are told to have are minds and hearts on God. If we have are thoughts set on the world all the time, we become a part of it.
I agree one hundred percent. But that doesn't mean we bow down at the altar of Trump and justify his evil doings with platitudes and clichés-like retorts about serving God and ignoring his deceits. Especially since John the Baptist was serving God when he told the king that it was not lawful for him to have his brother's wife. No one told him to shut up and stop criticizing the king's evil doings.
You think John might have thought that to be silent about sin, even the king's sin, was to be in some way complicit? Just a thought as I see so many Christians silent about so many things. Including Abortion, Deceit, Divorce, Sexual Immorality, Greed, Sundays, Homosexuality, Proper Marriage, Child Rearing, the list is endless. And we can throw in the disgraceful behavior of our President as well.
I've said my piece so as Pearson would say, Soap Box mode off.