Trump hasn't disgraced me.
You just don't see it.
That you had obviously held to much of his every shade of bigotry way before he came along to give a "world -stage" voice to it.
That moment in you and yours on the so called "right" throughout the country, during his campaigns and all that double-talk, bigotry and hate of his that you and yours on the so called "right" experienced as "he speaks to me" - that very moment could have been a wake up call to how off-center you'd all ended up.
Instead, you and yours were obviously too far down that same path to see yourselves in that moment, as what you'd become.
Too many years in not enough reflection on...
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Or as he reiterated that in his sequal to Romans...
Ephesians 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 4:20 But ye have not so learned Christ; 4:21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 4:27 Neither give place to the devil. 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
You're too deeply entrenched in an outlook no longer allowing you to see what what Trump represents has done - just that - disgraced every one of you - shown the profound double-standard your hearts have actually held, all this time.
Result - there is now no pointing it out to you and yours, absent of your not turning it into the words of an enemy.
Your own Galatianism.
Galatians 4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
The answer remains...obvious.
Perception being reality, your "world" has obviously ended up that upside down :chuckle:
Humour - tragedy properly reflected on...over time.
Nevertheless - and still - Romans 5:8 towards each and every one of you...
