Which Blasphemy is Most Shocking?
There has been a lot of reporting and social media furor this week about the dubious religious messaging being sent by the Trump administration. Most of that has focused on Trump’s posting of an AI-generated picture of himself as a Jesus-equivalent figure, miraculously healing the sick with glowing light beaming from his hands, while fighter jets and a strangely demonic figure hover above him. Personally, I find the much less-noticed claims being made by Trump’s vice president JD Vance more shocking. Oh, I know, Vance’s statements are just in the form of words, and fairly dry ones at that. People find that much more boring than the zingy offering of a blasphemous AI slop image of a deified Trump. But here’s the thing: only the most ignorant and self-deluding think Trump is a devout Christian. The man has never read the Bible, and can’t quote or even name a single passage off the top of his head. He has a long and very public history of enjoying the seven deadly sins, a...