{"id":22644,"date":"2017-05-30T18:06:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T23:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=22644"},"modified":"2017-06-02T00:18:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T05:18:37","slug":"president-trump-europe-shining-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2017\/05\/president-trump-europe-shining-success.html","title":{"rendered":"President Trump in Europe &#8211; A Shining Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/687585630\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/687585630?et=DfrEQyajTXl5PtWTnz9NLQ&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=2ERKpVh90J2NaHCp2PtOuT7AAD3EgHB95BSd4DYEvec=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Peter Reith gives his uncompromising opinion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theimaginativeconservative.org\/2017\/05\/trump-european-trip-peter-s-rieth.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>\u00a0at Imaginative Conservative.<\/p>\n<p>He likes Trump and think the POTUS has put those snobbish, left wing Europeans in their place.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>I viewed the President\u2019s trip differently. For me his talks with NATO allies was overshadowed by the religious element to his trip.<\/p>\n<p>In his first trip abroad he visited the home base of the Muslim religion, the home base of the Jewish religion and the home base of the Christian religion.<\/p>\n<p>Why did he do that? Was it simply an effort to build Middle East peace, do some business with the Saudis and pay an obligatory trip to the Vatican for public relations reasons?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe something else is cooking. Maybe some of the people in the know are finally getting their heads around the idea that religion matters\u2013and that the majority of the world\u2019s population are more motivated by their religion than their politics.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the case, then the President\u2019s visit to the \u00a0home base of the three major world religions might be the \u00a0most significant part of his journey.<\/p>\n<p>Time will tell, but if that aspect of his trip could be built on, then it might just be possible to use the religious contacts to work on genuine peace.<\/p>\n<p>That was his tweet as he left the Vatican\u2013that he was determined to work for peace.<\/p>\n<p>Could the big businessman make progress in that direction? Maybe just maybe he could use the force and efficiency of business to make some steps forward.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a Trump fan, but I\u2019m willing to watch and wait and give anybody the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of the world&#8217;s population is more motivated by their religion than their politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":22645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President Trump in Europe - A Shining Success?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The majority of the world&#039;s population is more motivated by their religion than their politics.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2017\/05\/president-trump-europe-shining-success.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Trump in Europe - A Shining Success?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The majority of the world&#039;s population is more motivated by their religion than their politics.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2017\/05\/president-trump-europe-shining-success.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fr. 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