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<\/a>Years ago, my sister and brother-in-law woke in the middle of the night to strange sounds coming from their dining room.<\/p>\n
My Vietnam veteran, career police officer brother-in-law went to check. What he found was a large, mature copperhead snake that had managed to wriggle into the house through a crack in their patio door.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know if my brother-in-law was scared. He never said. But that snake was enraged and terrified.<\/p>\n
It struck repeatedly with killer force \u2014 at my brother-in-law, at the houseplants, at the furniture, at the air.<\/p>\n
Copperheads are strong, muscular snakes, and this was a big one, in insane attack mode. I don\u2019t know how he accomplished it, but my brother-in-law managed to get the snake back outside without killing it.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m telling you about this now because every time Trump posts another of his insane rants, launches another crude attack at the pope, insults or threatens another head of state, bombs another city, or kills another boatload of fishermen, he reminds me of that snake.<\/p>\n
Trump is like that copperhead.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s gotten himself into a place where he doesn\u2019t belong and that is far beyond either his emotional or intellectual ability to handle.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s out of his depth.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s enraged.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s terrified.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s striking out again and again at everything and everyone he sees with the only skills he has, which are performative lies, threats, bullying and slander.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s a dangerous animal that has no conscience or concern for human life to limit what he will do.<\/p>\n
We the People are facing the same problem that confronted my brother-in-law: How do we get this dangerous animal out of our house?<\/p>\n
There are no laws in Oklahoma against killing a copperhead. But like my brother-in-law, We the People don\u2019t want to harm the snake that is striking at us. We just want to remove it before it kills us. We want to send it back where it came from.<\/p>\n
That brings me to the main point of this post.<\/p>\n
Trump has attacked the pope yet again with another one of his insane posts. Pope Leo responded like the Vicar of Christ that he is: He renewed his call for peace.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Trump is also attacking his own allies who don\u2019t support his attacks on the Holy Father, both here in America and abroad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He\u2019s like a rage-blinded copperhead, striking out at everything he sees.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s base was so outraged by the AI meme he posted depicting himself as Jesus Christ that he took it down. Then, he told one of his ridiculous lies to \u201cexplain\u201d it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He said he posted it because he thought it made him look like a doctor or a Red Cross worker. Then, he went to his standard attack by saying that the \u201cfake news\u201d had lied and said he posted a meme with himself as Jesus Christ.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s understand this. Trump wasn\u2019t just using that meme to claim that he, Trump, is god. He posted that meme to mock Our Lord. It was part of his attack on the pope.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He was saying the pope is not holy, because this Jesus Christ that the pope serves is not holy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Trump isn\u2019t just attacking Pope Leo. He\u2019s attacking the God Pope Leo represents. He\u2019s attacking the idea that anything or anyone \u2014 including Jesus Christ \u2014 is above Trump.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>He has surrounded himself with clergy who are nothing but his whores. These clergy are quite frank in their blasphemous deification of Trump. They have kissed Trump\u2019s ring and bowed down to him from his first campaign to today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve heard claims coming from people who very well know better that Trump \u201csupports\u201d religious freedom. That lie is so stupid Trump himself might have told it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Trump empowers people who do his will without question. If the things they do for Trump become a liability to Trump, he gets rid of them and replaces them with someone even more servile than they were.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Trump\u2019s idea of religious \u201cfreedom\u201d is to put his hand on the scales of government in favor of the religious leaders and the churches that preach and teach that he, Trump, is a false god.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The day is coming \u2014 and it is not far off \u2014 when he will use government to punish, limit and even imprison religious leaders and members of churches who do not fall down and worship him. If Trump strikes out at the pope like an enraged copperhead, think what he will do to other clergy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What Trump wants is churches somewhat like the churches they have under Communism. But he doesn\u2019t just want churches that are under the control of the government and that slavishly preach and teach the government line. He wants churches that fall down and worship him personally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He receives that kind of idolatry from a lot of very famous big name evangelical preachers. Those religious whores kiss up to Trump, abase themselves and twist the Gospels to suit Trump every day. There\u2019s no sin he can commit but that they will explain it away and justify it. There\u2019s no degree of Trump worship that they won\u2019t engage in it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He\u2019s also got a handful of Catholic bishops on the string. I\u2019m watching them, waiting to see who they will choose. So far, they\u2019ve been religious contortionists; trying to bend a knee to Trump with one leg and take a stand for Christ with the other. Trump lets them get away with this because he\u2019s using them to drive a wedge between a segment of the Catholic faithful and the pope.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When Trump attacks the pope\u2019s right to preach and teach what Jesus preached and taught, he\u2019s not just attacking a man. He\u2019s attacking the Church.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When Trump attacks the Church\u2019s freedom to preach and teach the Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount, he\u2019s not just attacking a world-wide religious organization. He\u2019s attacking the Gospels\u2019 claim on your life and mine in this world today. He\u2019s attacking the One the Church represents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He\u2019s saying that Christ and His teachings should not be sovereign in your life, but that he, Trump, should be sovereign in your life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Trump made that clear when he posted the meme of himself as Jesus Christ alongside his first attack on the Pope.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Trump is like a copperhead snake, striking out at everything that moves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But he\u2019s far worse than that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I believe that he\u2019s also under serious demonic influence. I know that\u2019s extreme. It won\u2019t bother me a bit if you don\u2019t agree with me. I\u2019ll understand if you laugh at me for saying it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But before you toss it aside, look at what he does. Look at what he just did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Give me some other explanation that doesn\u2019t involve a demand that I believe a ridiculous lie like \u201che just thought it made him look like a doctor.\u201d Tell me something that isn\u2019t an inane acceptance of what is unacceptable such as \u201cOh, he just does things like that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The truth is, Trump\u2019s message could not have been more clear. Who attacks Christ like that on the Orthodox Easter?<\/p>\n There\u2019s only one name that comes to my mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018I Have No Fear\u2019: Pope Leo Hits Back After Trump\u2019s Wild Tirade Calling Him \u2018Weak\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Trump Post of Himself as \u2018Jesus\u2019 Includes Strange Horned Creature Not in Original<\/a><\/p>\n Italian PM condemns ally Trump over \u2018unacceptable\u2019 Pope criticism<\/a><\/p>\n Trump\u2019s blunt attack on former allies exposes splintered Maga coalition<\/a><\/p>\n Diocese of Rome stands with Pope Leo, decrying Trump\u2019s \u2018shocking attacks\u2019 against the Holy Father<\/a><\/p>\n Jesuit Priest On CNN Scoffs at Trump\u2019s Defense of Jesus Meme \u2014 Denounces \u2018Unchristian and Really Unhinged\u2019 Attack on Pope Leo<\/a><\/p>\n Dalai Lama endorses Pope Leo\u2019s Holy Week message of peace<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Not even Hitler attacked the Pope so directly\u2019: Trump condemned for post lashing out at Leo<\/a><\/p>\n CNN Host Exposes Trump for Telling \u2018One of the Lamest Lies Imaginable\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Trump takes aim at Pope Leo again, days after calling him \u2018weak on crime\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n