Do you remember how every time tragedy struck a blue state, a liberal city, or the LGBTQ+ community, the so-called Christian Republicans, especially the MAGA zealots, gleefully declared it a “sign from God?”
They practically danced on the graves of the suffering, smug in their delusion that divine wrath only targets the people they despise.
They scoff at climate science, calling it a liberal hoax, even as the world burns, blows away and floods around them.
And through it all, they worship a man who cheats, lies, bullies and wallows in hate. A man who embodies everything Christ warned against.
They cheer as he explodes the national debt to shovel billions into the pockets of the ultra-rich, while gutting programs for the middle class and poor.
They cheer when migrants are rounded up and dumped into Florida’s “alligator concentration camp.”
Suffering is a spectacle to them, as long as it doesn’t happen to their own.
But when a biblical flood wipes out a Christian summer camp in red-state Texas, killing innocent young girls, suddenly it’s just a tragedy, not divine judgment.
Where are their smug sermons now? Where’s their God-is-punishing-you talk?
Maybe, just maybe, this is the real sign: that the God they’ve hijacked for hate is telling them to turn back, to repent, and to stop worshiping a cruel, vindictive man who leads them not toward salvation, but straight into moral rot.
Lewis Bennett
Port Angeles