{"id":5787,"date":"2017-02-11T05:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T05:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/11\/is-trumpism-a-heresy\/"},"modified":"2017-02-11T05:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T05:22:29","slug":"is-trumpism-a-heresy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/11\/is-trumpism-a-heresy\/","title":{"rendered":"Is ‘Trumpism’ a Heresy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> is so stupid as to be beyond belief:<\/span><\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump exudes an ideology of "America first." There's only one problem for orthodox Christians, however — the nation may never come first, because in first place must always be Jesus Christ and his Gospel. In that sense, "Trumpism" is actually a heresy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Exudes?  Does the author know what this word<\/a> means?  Misuse of language is a tell-tale sign of a 'liberal.'<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope to say more later, but for the nonce, the following must suffice.<\/span><\/p>\n

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America First has as as little to do with national idolatry as it does with chauvinism or nativism or isolationism or racism. The basic idea is that the main obligation<\/em> of a government is to protect and serve the citizens of the country of which it is the government. It is a further question whether it has obligations to protect and benefit the citizens of other countries. That is debatable. But if it does, those obligations are trumped by the main obligation just mentioned.  I should think that a great nation such as the USA does well to engage in purely humanitarian efforts such as famine relief. Such efforts, however, are secondary and arguably supererogatory.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See my America First<\/a> for the fuller statement of which the foregoing is a slightly redacted excerpt.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is so stupid as to be beyond belief: President Donald Trump exudes an ideology of "America first." There's only one problem for orthodox Christians, however — the nation may never come first, because in first place must always be Jesus Christ and his Gospel. In that sense, "Trumpism" is actually a heresy. Exudes?  Does … Continue reading “Is ‘Trumpism’ a Heresy?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idolatry","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}