Before Trump\u2019s election, Republican Court Prophets like John Zmirak helped to stampede conservative Catholics with the fraud that Trump was Constantine and Clinton was Diocletian<\/a>.\u00a0 Vote for Trump or face persecution!<\/p>\n My point then, as now, is that Jesus told his disciples to fear seduction, not persecution.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Really:<\/p>\n Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10:28)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The one who can destroy both body and soul in hell is you, when you give yourself to the worship of idols in your pursuit of money, pleasure, power, and honor as a visible from space antichrist leads you to the top of an exceeding high mountain and promises you all the kingdoms of the earth if you will bow down and worship him.<\/p>\n But American Christiansts, an antichrist cult who fear the first death and who give no hint of so much as believing in the second death (judging from their sadistic cruelty to the least these, their avarice, their lies, and their nihilistic cynicism) chose to ignore Jesus and sell themselves to Trump, telling themselves the lie that they would \u201chold his feet to the fire\u201d.\u00a0 Instead, they have lived, not 779 days since November 8, 2016, but November 8, 2016 779 times, lying that everything Trump has said and done since then is justified because \u201cotherwise Hillary would be President.\u201d<\/p>\n Dudes.\u00a0 She lost.\u00a0 Get over it.\u00a0 Live in the present.\u00a0 You are lying now<\/em>.\u00a0 Today.\u00a0 Constantly.\u00a0 You\u2019ve done it every day since Trump took office in order to rationalize your vote.<\/p>\n This is the essence of the contrast between Christian discipleship and Christianism.<\/p>\n A Christian disciple seeks first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and conforms himself to Christ.\u00a0 He dies to himself so that Christ will live in him.<\/p>\n A Christianist kills Christ in order to cannibalize Christian culture for whatever will accessorize his worship of his true god, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s lie is that Jesus and the Holy Family were not refugees.<\/p>\n Why are we hearing this?\u00a0 Because, of course, recognizing that the Son of God identifies himself with the refugee, the alien, the orphan, and the widow, with the caged child, with the desperate poor, with those fleeing political violence in their homeland is not something that makes a brutal antichrist cynic who hides behind the unborn to cheer for the Orange Herod look good.\u00a0 It reminds the world that the Greatest Christians of All Time don\u2019t really even care about abortion.\u00a0 They care passionately about enjoying the sadistic cruelty being meted out to desperate refugees at the border.\u00a0 They care, not to put too fine a point on it, about being<\/em> the Diocletianic persecutors of Christians they said they feared.\u00a0 Because with the Cult accusation is always a form of confession.\u00a0 Christianist are enemies of the gospel they claim to uphold.\u00a0 So they don\u2019t read scripture in order to learn from it.\u00a0 Indeed, they don\u2019t read it at all.\u00a0 They instead decree what it will and shall mean, and then press Scripture into saying just that, no matter how much violence must be inflicted on the text to arrive at the desired destination.<\/p>\n So as the Cult metes out suffering, torment, and cruelty to refugees, some members of the Cult turn to Ben Shapiro to help them deny the Holy Family were refugees with the declaration that \u201cJoseph went with Mary to Bethlehem to register for the census. They weren\u2019t refugees.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Shapiro is straining at gnats and swallowing camels here.\u00a0 He is responding to Catholic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019 remark:<\/p>\n Joy to the World!<\/p>\n Merry Christmas everyone \u2013 here\u2019s to a holiday filled with happiness, family, and love for all people. \ufffd(Including refugee babies in mangers + their parents.)<\/p>\n \u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n