{"id":11784,"date":"2020-02-24T10:40:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11784"},"modified":"2020-02-24T10:40:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:40:56","slug":"living-in-trump-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11784","title":{"rendered":"Living in Trump country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce Gerencser writes a piece for the Clergy Project<\/a> that describes living in Trump country.<\/p>\n

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In 2016, Donald Trump easily won the counties surrounding my home in Ney [Ohio]. Come November he will carry these counties again, likely by a higher margin than he did in 2016. The same will happen with the elections of local and state Republican candidates. Democratic candidates,<\/p>\n

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The aforementioned letter writer doesn\u2019t say anything that I don\u2019t hear locals say at ballgames, restaurants, or other public places, or write in letters to the editors of local papers or post on social media. I shoot photos upwards of a hundred local basketball\/baseball\/football games, volleyball matches, and track meets every year. I am retired, so I do this as a way to give back to our local school district and provide student-athletes and their families with quality photographs. Keeps me busy, allows me to meet new people, and takes my mind off the unrelenting chronic pain I battle each and every day. Doing so, however, exposes me to far more Trumpist Christian bullshit than I care to see or hear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This rings true. I have family who live near Gerencser in Ohio, and I live in a Southern Baptist-dominated seminary town in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Remember: Christianity’s indispensable metaphysical claim is Original Sin, the claims that …<\/p>\n