Weighing Trump

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

Those of us horrified by Donald Trump have to be careful that we don't spend so much time and thought on his evil idiocies that he becomes the central figure of our lives and our world-view.  When we do, we become mirror-images of Trump's followers.

But worst of all, that would be to share Trump's hyper-inflated self-image of his own magnificent importance in EVERYTHING.  Sharing Trump's thinking in any regard is disgusting.  Concurring in his self-image would be

So I'll affirm, once and for all, that Donald Trump himself matters in human affairs and world history less than a pinch of owl-dung.  Human affairs and world history are the story of mankind's relationship with God, written by God.  Donald Trump is a transitory bit-player under God's stage-direction.


Contrary his own belief, Donald Trump is not the main character in that story.  Neither is Hilary Clinton or Barack Obama (both of whom I mention only because Trump seems to somehow think they are his rivals for the title of History's Most Important Person Ever: though I doubt Clinton or Obama either one thinks of themself in Trump's terms).

But Trump is not deterred, believing that his personal importance is proved by the fact he holds the highest office in the Greatest Nation in the World.

Trump has to affirm that about America.  It would diminish his personal sense of his own glory if "his" nation was anything less than the Greatest, Strongest, Most Wonderful, Richest, Most Powerful country that ever existed.  But those of us not in Trump's perceptual-thrall don't have to be, and shouldn't be, as delusional.

In the story God writes of human affairs and world history, there's no good reason to consider America anything more than another kingdom of men.  No reason to believe Trumpland is God's ultimate be-all and end-all for humankind.

Trump himself, and the fake-news "America" which he creates for himself, matter less than a pinch of owl-dung. 

But in a regard Trump seems not to recognize, both have significant weight on God's scale of mankind and his history.  On God's scale, Trump and his alternative-reality nation weigh in as a huge spiritual evil: man's self-pride vaunting itself against God.