(The white goggle lines are a dead giveaway.) He has not always been this dark. Particularly when Helgard lays out the big clincher, valiantly tackling the Orange Question head-on: “Why is Donald Trump so orange?……The net is filled with rumors, but the compromise is that Trump is an admirer of bad spray tans or the tanning booth. Do you see it too as a reader?” Yes! Thank you, Jesus! (Thank you, Trump!?) I’m starting to. (Though both of their mothers were named Mary, Helgard hastens to add.)Īs Helgard puts it: “There are too many parallels between Jesus, the Son of God, and President Donald J. More entertaining is Helgard laying out his evidence that Jesus and Trump, or as some Trumpsters would prefer, Trump and Jesus, are messianic brothers from another mother. We’ll skip the 150 pages or so of Helgard’s tortured hermeneutics, in the interest of not causing reader brain injuries. Though if Trump drops a C-note on God, who knows? Maybe he’ll get to do a shift in the Big Chair. John Lyons/with permission of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University Swimming in the news stream all day as. Trump) is positioned at God’s right hand. By Matt Labash Updated April 14, 2022, 12:01 p.m. Helgard, who is preoccupied with seating charts, holds that Jesus stands in front of the throne of God, while the Son of Man (i.e., Mr. And the tangelo-flavored real estate branding magnate on the other. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. Mencken, who was sure of himself an awful lot, once admitted: Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. But his working premise is that while Christian theologians often mistake the “Son of Man” in the Bible for J.C., there are actually two Messiahs: Jesus, the Son of God, on the one hand. I came on a recommendation, and subbed because Matt has a great eye for the abuse of monopolistic. The Divided States Slack Tide by Matt Labash Charles Groover Uncategorized Janu1 Minute Even H.L. It will be to the point.” Having slogged through all 298 pages of it, I beg to differ. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his introduction, Helgard promises “my book is not going to be a long and dramatic book. Labash also notes that the book has been extremely unpopular among the Christian community as the book ranks 328 in the “Christian commentaries” section of Kindle sales. Labash clearly does not have a positive impression of the book, the book’s author, or the comparison of Trump to Jesus. Matthew John 'Matt' Labash was born on 1970 or 1971 and is an American author and journalist who writes the Slack Tide newsletter. The book compares the former US president to Christianity’s savior. Matt Labash of Slack Tide shares his review of a book titled President Donald J. Some politicians have gone so far as to compare The Donald with the Son of Man when making hyperbolic statements about political blowback against the former President, but one book author has gone so far as to say that, no, Donald J.
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