An Antichrist is someone who is an antagonist of Christ, someone who is an adversary of Christ. What does that mean? It means someone who works against everything that Christ taught and valued. It means someone who routinely does the opposite of what Jesus would do.
The core of any religion is its teaching on how to live life, on how to interact with yourself and those around you. This is usually termed its ethical or moral code. And in Christianity, “the moral standards for human beings flow from God’s moral character." God/Christ “commands us to love, to be merciful, and to not bear false witness.”
Let us examine President Trump by these moral standards.
1. Does Trump love his fellow man? The only people Trump loves, and that is using the term very loosely. are those who do what he wants them to do. Anyone who opposes him or displeases him are vilified in his tweets and other public pronouncements. Trump loves no one but himself. But he is not the garden-variety narcissist that we all know; he is instead someone with Narcissist Personality Disorder as defined by the American Psychiatric Association in the DSM Manual. He is an evil person.
2. Is Trump merciful? No. This is most evident in his actions and pronouncements regarding illegal immigrants from Mexico. The issue is not that he regards their presence as being illegal - that’s the law - it is that he vilifies them and treats them as dirt. Regarding those seeking asylum from the violence in their Central American homelands, he makes no distinction between their status and those of illegal immigrants. Not only is he confused about the law, he is not merciful. Regarding the LGBT community he has attempted to rollback protections afforded by Federal regulations causing much suffering. The examples are endless. And if you are a perceived enemy or antagonist of his, he certainly shows no mercy in his blistering attacks.
Unlike Christ, he has not opened his heart to those who are despised by our society, the contemporary equivalent of lepers and prostitutes in Christ’s time. Instead, he has inflamed his bases’ intolerance towards them for one reason only - to manipulate them and be secure in their unwavering support of him.
3. Does Trump lie? Is the Pope Catholic?! The answer is a resounding, yes. All Presidents have lied to protect themselves on occasion. Trump, however lies many times every day. He is a pathological lier. Ironically, what he calls “Fake News” is telling the truth and his version of the news is instead fake. But by branding various media as Fake News, he has cleverly set himself up as being the truthful one.
Let’s look at this another way. The seven deadly sins of Christianity are pride, greed. lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. Many if not most people are to some extent guilty of these sins. But Trump is guilty of them in spades; indeed, these sins define him. I don’t think it’s necessary to offer any proof that he is guilty every day of all seven deadly sins.
To me though the most disturbing aspect of Donald Trump's spiritual immorality is that he has no conscience, he has no concern for his fellow man, he certainly doesn’t “do unto others as he would have them do unto him.” He uses everyone around him and his supporters shamelessly to advance his only goal … which is his own power and reputation. He is a con man par excellence.
As such, Donald Trump is in his everyday actions an Antichrist. Not only is everything he stands for and does antagonistic to the human values that Christ put at the center of his moral code, but as President, the leader of this country, he inflames large segments of the population to follow his example, rather than adopting a Christian moral position regarding the problems we are facing and those less fortunate among us, who suffer from discrimination and bigotry.
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