1/ My God is Trump’s devil. Here is why. (Please, read the thread to the end before making your judgment.)

2/ I do understand what’s-in-it-for-me people. That’s always a temptation. It takes moral discipline to resist it. I also understand why a small subset of such people would, like Trump, consider all those who sacrifice themselves for others to be “losers” & “suckers.”

3/ But people who embrace “what’s-in-it-for-me” as their rule of life and who, like Trump, can’t comprehend those who reject that principle, live in a different moral universe than I do. Their god (the orienting center of their lives) is my devil. My god is their devil.

4/ What’s-in-it-for-me is the egoists’ principle. As Nietzsche noted, egoists think altruists are stupid for altruists often put even the advantage of egoists ahead of their own advantage. The prime example of such a “stupid sucker” was Jesus. He came to bear the sin of the world

5/ The Gospel of John states unambiguously that Jesus’ crucifixion was his glory. Of course, he shared glory with God before the world began & entered into glory after resurrection. God’s glory in eternity and in time is the matchless glory of unconditional, self-giving and love.

6/ The only glory Trump recognizes that of victors who sacrifice nothing because they care for nothing except their own glory. That, and the hollow shimmer of gilded ceilings and the petty roar of a riled-up crowd. It is antithetical to the glory of the one true God.