Theocracy Light, A State Religion

Theocracy Light, A State Religion

By: Erreh Svaia

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According to the book God and Donald Trump written by Stephen E. Strang, several conservative evangelical leaders (Jerry Falwell among them) in the US affirmed the existence of a supernatural power acting during the presidential elections and favoring the candidate Donald Trump over evil, represented by the candidate Hillary Clinton, in this way they affirmed that Trump was an "envoy of God to the USA to guide the country in times of crisis", the movie The Trump Prophecy documents how several Trump followers point him out as the man destined to restore the "moral values ​​of America," in this film, one of the protagonists claims to hear the voice of God while changing channels and appeared on the television Donald Trump, "this is the next president of the USA”, God supposedly told him, for many of these fans, former President Barack Obama is also the representative of the demon itself, and the "miracle" of Trump's triumph implies the punishment and imprisonment of Obama, as well as the capture of a circle of "satanic pedophiles" infiltrated in the Democratic Party, whom Trump will also punish, in addition to freeing cures against cancer and Alzheimer's, kidnapped by the demoniacal pharmaceutical industry, sounds like an amazing fiction story impossible to believe, but it's not like that, Trump fans in the US embrace the epic battle between good and evil its president, and beyond recognizing the faults of the orange authoritarian narcissist, are willing to "forgive" their failures because they are the fault of their adversaries.

In Mexico, the eccentric Father Solalinde points out that today President Andrés López "has a lot of God", during his campaign, we could see the then candidate taking pictures in which behind him religious figures appeared, his party Morena not only evokes the color of the so-called "bronze race", it is also a clear reference to the Virgin of Guadalupe (registering as presidential candidate on December 12), Elena Poniatowska, one of her supporters points him out as a "Guadalupano socialist", while Bernardo Barranco, scholar of the religious phenomenon, points out in his column as "The Candidate of God" for a sector of the voters in a phenomenon that goes beyond the political and ideological, reaching the religious, causing an unusual devotion among his fanatic followers who want to touch him in his political rallies, in addition to the existence of objects of worship and adoration as candles with his image, to which López does not ignore, but on the contrary, uses these images as part of his "politics", covering topics such as forgiveness, love, reconciliation and hope, turning faith into a political asset, it is not surprising that the evangelical pastor Lenin Aguilera affirms that "God is acting through López", or that a large part of the Christian Democrats such as Manuel Espino, Germán Martínez, Bernardo Bátiz, formerly part of the National Action Party, have joined López's party, or that the Social Encounter Party (far right), chaired by the Pentecost pastor Hugo Erick Flores, has formed an alliance with Morena.

In Brazil, on January 1, President Bolsonaro took office as president a far right practitioner in Brazil, Bolsonaro, a nationalist Catholic (for the third time the factor of religion and nationalism united), and Bolsonaro's electoral affirmation is reckless at the outset "God above all" we can also hear the voices of fanaticism saying that "God intervened for the triumph of Bolsonaro ", with hallucinatory affirmations such as that of his foreign minister, Ernesto Araújo pointing "God's return to Brazil" thanks to Bolsonaro, with Bolsonaro as "soldier of God", releasing him to be present again in the South American nation, "God was a slave of socialism and today is free thanks to Bolsonaro", that is the new political gospel of the far right in Brazil, and the tragic thing is that this not only happens in South America, it is also happening in Mexico and in the US, where it seems that the  terrified citizens in the face of modern uncertainty, feels abandoned by traditional politics, feels abandoned by the traditional right or left political parties and, far from finding reasons, looks for someone to deposit his faith, we could talk about a Pope Francisco who has lost presence, that he has not been able to convincingly trace accusations of concealment in cases of abuse by priests and a human need to believe in something, even if politicians start using the figure of God as a political banner to exercise a bizarre version of religion , virtue and morality emanating from the State, something not very far from the political-religious tandem of Vladimir Putin and patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church.