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Micael Grenholm, a Swedish charismactivist, apologist and author.
Trump Sold Bibles to Pay for Legal Fees to a Porn Star he Cheated With and Compared Himself to Jesus
Yes, you read that correctly.
Last year, Donald Trump was indicted for having paid over a hundred thousand dollars to the porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their sexual encounter shortly after his wife Melania gave birth to their son Barron. Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen admitted to the crime, calling it a “sex scandal of biblical proportions” and admitting that it was done on Trump’s orders.
Trump also accidentally admitted to the crime in 2018, but has since denied it. He is really bad at playing innocent – he threatened “death and destruction” if he was charged, which he was. Several of his supporters call it persecution and communism that he is being charged – they do not care that Trump himself has already admitted to it.
While he was in court, Trump shared on social media an image comparing himself to Jesus Christ. As people who have read the Bible might recall, Jesus was in fact never on trial for being accused of paying hush money illegally to a porn star. Sure, Trump’s point was that he was as innocent as Jesus was when Jesus was falsely accused of blasphemy and was put to death by the Romans. But again, Trump had actually admitted that he made the payment to the porn star – thus, he was not innocent.
Lo and behold, Trump was found guilty on 34 charges and became the first former president to be a convicted felon. What happened next, you ask? Trump started to sell Bibles. The “God bless the USA Bible”, which mixed the Holy Words of Scripture with secular, political writings—almost as if the separation of church and state doesn’t mean much to him. These Bibles cost 60 dollars each and while the organization that sells them isn’t owned by Trump it has a “paid licensing agreement” with one of his companies.
As of yet, Trump has made at least 300,000 dollars from these Bibles and as he can’t use those funds for his political campaigns, it is likely that he used them to pay his mounting legal fees after his failed court case with Stormy Daniels.
And here’s the really crazy part. Hardly any evangelical leader that normally supports Donald Trump has rebuked him for any of this. Their loyalty to Trump is clearly stronger than their loyalty to Christ and the Bible. Likewise, they mostly remained silent when he said that he was the most honest human being God ever created or when he was pleased when someone compared him to the second coming of God:
When will evangelicals finally abandon this guy?
The Simple Tip from Jesus that Transformed My Life
Pornography, shopping, countless hours wasted on entertainment, social media scrolling that hardly gives us anything…
The age of the Internet is an age of huge potential and opportunities for mission, networking and activism, but it is also an endless sea of temptations and distractions right at our fingertips.
We often take the latter path, even when we don’t want to. I’m sure most of us clearly can relate to Paul’s words:
“For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.” (Rom 7:19)
I myself have struggled with this for a long time. But as the title of this blog post suggests, a simple tip from Jesus Christ himself in his amazing Sermon on the Mount has been a game-changer for me.
And it might not be what you expect:
If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. (Matthew 5:29-30)
Jesus gives this advice as he teaches on fighting sexual temptation. I took this to heart and now I look like this:
Seven Deadly Sins of Europe 6: Lust for Immorality
As the election to the European Parliament gets closer, I want to highlight some of the biggest European sins that unfortunately are not very present in the political debates.
Lust is not that hard to define. The New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia defines it as “The inordinate craving for, or indulgence of, the carnal pleasure which is experienced in the human organs of generation. The wrongfulness of lust is reducible to this: that venereal satisfaction is sought for either outside wedlock or, at any rate, in a manner which is contrary to the laws that govern marital intercourse.” Lust is exetremely common in the Western world today. Sexism, pornography and nudity is abundant as never before.
In Denmark, an absurd video was published by their own parliament that tries to convince the youth to vote through violence and sex. The video caused outrage even in Denmark, but this country is very liberal when it comes to sex and nudity.
Blachman is sent on national television where a nude woman has to be silent while the host Blachman talks about her body together with a male guest. They will also start to air “2 blowjobs, thank you“, where a male host buys sex from prostitutes to guide the audience in the totally legal danish sex trade. And one of the biggest fishing magazines in Denmark publishes “fish porn”, a picture of a nude woman holding a fish in every number, just to get more readers.
We could go on and on describing the nudity in Italian and Spanish television, on the sexism in most countries’ commercials and how sex generally is accepted as something fun to do with many different people. The church has often criticised this, but often in a clumsy way. And when it comes to the politicians, nothing is done.
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