Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Trump and His Allies Think He Was Sent by God to Be President" video.

  1. By the same logic, Obama was also chosen by God, Nixon was chosen by God, Clinton was chosen by God. And then Hitler, Pol Pot, Pinochet, Stalin, etc etc. What really surprises me is that after millennia of humanity's existence, people still don't seen to understand, religious or not, that we just simply cannot skirt our freedom of choice and our personal responsibilities to the will of invisible beings or out of control external factors. And I'm pretty sure all major religions are not predicated by their respective gods or God doing everything for it's followers as long as they believe in it. There's a whole ton of people that call themselves Christians that follows almost none of the supposed teachings of Christ, almost nothing that has been passed on by the Bible, and that would make Jesus grimace in disgust by their actions, their falsehoods, and by their lack of empathy, care and love to other of God's creations. It always seems to be all about hate, about prohibiting people to behave in a certain way, about accusing others of being sinful, about trying to limit others' freedoms, about thinking of themselves as gods or apostles of God to force their own will against others. Religion seems to never be brought into the fray when it is to talk about unfair treatment of our neighbors, about sharing the bread, about correcting your ways, about taking the name of the Lord in vain, about committing adultery, about not bearing false witness against thy neighbor. This is the general problem of religion, and why it has to be completely separated from state matters. It is too open for interpretation, which leads to chaos. If you are going to use it to just say whatever crap you want in the name of it, it has no place in politics, lawmaking and state matters. If you cannot live by this very simple rule of secularity, you might as well just move away to a totalitarian religious country and call it a day, see how well things go for you there when the religion does not work in your favor. Preaching for a country that is led by religion and that people should be forced to submit to it is preaching for terrorism, religious extremism, and absolutism. And to be clear, I am not anti-religion myself. I am against the way some people twist and turn it to behave in whatever way they see fit, to backup their unsubstantiated claims, to go against logic, to destroy parts of society just because they themselves judge that to be favorable for themselves. If I can justify anything of being the "will of God", and I give no room for questioning, then everything is justifiable, and there are no societal rules to follow. You can't really complain about anything, and you cannot take any actions that leads to a better future.
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