Alan: The title of this article bowled me over like the proverbial ton of bricks!
It goes "straight to the heart" -- or perhaps I should say, "straight to the heartlessness" -- of what Trump is about: the worship of his solipsistic Self.
"The right not to care about other people."
Or at least the right not to care about anybody who is not identified with oneself.
This view of liberty spotlights the meaning of Mark's 5th chapter, the passage in which Yeshuah exhorts people to love their enemies:
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet your brothers only, what are you doing more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so?"
It bears mention that Jewish tax collectors were roughly equivalent to today's child sex traffickers - only worse - for they not only harmed their fellow human beings, but were an affront to Yahweh/God.
The quintessence of defilement.
Tax collectors were the worst traitors, working openly for Rome's occupying army, collecting taxes from their fellow Jews, then surrendering the bulk of those taxes to Caesar and his centurion goons, keeping a portion of the extorted proceeds as their own recompense.
These are the people Jesus has in mind when, across two millennia, he sheds light on Trump and his Pharisaic, "Christian" "conservative" Base.
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