Trump posts a picture of himself as Jesus, complete with vestments and hand ostensibly healing a man by touching his forehead. It finally got a reaction from some of the pseudo-Christian cult among his MAGA party, and some tongue clicking disapproval, along with lengthy apologies from supporters who are as incapable of criticizing him as he is of recognizing and acknowledging his own mistakes.
Darren Bailey, Republican Candidate for Governor of Illinois
Bailey is a guy who wears his MAGA identity and his fundamentalist Evangelical religious beliefs on his sleeve. It's the way he runs for political office, and it led to a landslide win for his opponent, J. D. Pritzker, last time around. It is apparently going to give Pritzker a very easy path to the governor's mansion this time around.
Bailey's reaction: I was shocked...
But that's it.
He wasn't offended or outraged by a blasphemous mockery of one of the Trinity, one who had just ripped into the character and integrity of the Pope. Bailey's not a Catholic, he's an Evangelical who runs a "Christian" school that has plenty of anti-Catholic rhetoric in its textbooks and classrooms.
His disrespect of the Pope is far out of bounds for a man who has been credibly accused of rape, guilty on multiple occasions of adultery, theft, and credibly accused of supporting a pedophile, if not participating in his work. His denial of his own need for forgiveness of sin because he claims he hasn't committed any disqualifies him from criticizing any religious leader, especially the pope.
Bailey's reaction is a little but on the understated side and that makes me question whether his claimed Evangelicalism is something he actually believes or something he plans to use to get votes.
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