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A priest can dress-up murder to look like a moral imperative by calling the former an act of God's righteous punishment.  And then declare that God's punishment is always an act of God's mercy. 
  "Why God would choose to reveal the truth only to some religious and political middlemen instead of to everybody is perhaps one of those mysterious, wondrous ways God works. But even if God does hand down to a few choice authorities truths about how you should live, how do you know which authorities are the genuine ones? God doesn't extend a hand from the sky and point them out to you. It is conveniently left to the authorities themselves to enlighten you about who the proper authorities are." Daniel Kolak and Raymond Martin,  Wisdom Without Answers , (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998), p. 93
 Conditioning you to feel pride when you see wealth has the effect of causing you to feel shame when you see poverty. when they Teach you to see white as perfect and beautiful, they teach you to see black as imperfect and ugly.

The DNA of Christo-Trumpism: Fear

“Everybody has a plan,” Mike Tyson once said, “until you get punched in the face.” For a lot of us, that punch is Donald Trump: a messianic narcissist who acts like Chucky, thinks like Archie Bunker, and makes the highest office of the land look like an episode of “The Tiger King;” and his comrade, Elon Musk, who runs around the White House like Leatherface in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” treating Federal employees like a bunch of moochers looking for some gas for their van, laughing about the desolated families and communities he leaves in his wake. The question is how in the hell did we end up here? The answer is fear and greed. That’s why Trump and his team are not only clearing away agencies responsible for protecting the public from corporate malfeasance, but also told the Supreme Court “they can arrest and deport anyone at anytime.” Welcome to “1984” meets “The Handmaid’s Tale.” And despite their rhetoric about needing their guns to defend their liberties against an overreachin...