Gustave Dore’s illustration of the lowest level of hell, from Dante’s “Inferno.”
The immoral proclamations of trump, his complete disregard for human life, our world’s environment, his lifestyle focused on self-indulgence with no regard to what it is costing others, and an armed with the emotional maturity and intelligence of a two year old, is frightening. That there are those, seemingly stupefied, who are willing to follow him zombiesque off to oblivion is just downright pathetic. One swears that the normal trump follower brainlessly and eagerly will drink the poisoned Kool Aid he is giving them to drink.
There was a time when the immoral acts of trump would elicit from me a curse sending trump to the lowest & most painful bowels of hell. Then, I thought, redundancy is pointless. Why incur a sin when trump has already condemned himself to the lowest & most painful bowels of hell? So, I no longer curse him knowing full well that when his penchant for fatty, greasy foods ends his self-indulgent narcissistic life, he will be spending an eternity in a Dantesque painted agony of hell (see the Gustave Dore illustration of the lowest level of Hell above).
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I am a composer, performer, poet, educator, spiritual director, and permanent deacon of the Catholic Church. I just recently retired after 42 years of full-time ministry in the Catholic Church. I continue to serve in the Church part-time. I have been blessed to be united in marriage to my bride, Ruth, since 1974. I am father to four wonderful adult children, and grandfather to five equally wonderful grandchildren. In my lifetime, I have received a B.A. in Music (UST), M.A. in Pastoral Studies (St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, UST), Certified Spiritual Director. Ordained to the Permanent Diaconate for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, in 1991. Composer, musician, author, poet, educator. The Gospels drive my political choices, hence, leading me toward a more liberal, other-centered politics rather than conservative politics. The great commandment of Jesus to love one another as he has loved us, as well as the criteria he gives in Matthew 25 by which we are to be judged at the end of time directs my actions and thoughts.
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