The apocalyptic myth that helps explain evangelical support for Trump
“God’s used imperfect people all through history. King David wasn’t perfect. Saul wasn’t perfect. Solomon wasn’t perfect,” outgoing Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in an interview on “Fox & Friends” before going on to claim that he had given the president “a little one-pager on those Old Testament kings about a month ago. And I shared with him, I said, ‘Mr. President, I know there are people who say, you know, you are the chosen one,’ and I said, ‘You were.’ ”
Perry’s statement — especially that “chosen one” bit — would be more surprising in a different administration. At this point, though, it could almost disappear into the background chatter of the administration and its allies. Presidential adviser Paula White, for example, uses the description of a demonic struggle to paint contemporary politics as a holy war. In a sermon about Trump in June, she proclaimed, “I declare President Trump will overcome every strategy from hell and every strategy of the enemy, every strategy, and he will fulfill his calling and his destiny.”
Perry’s and White’s praise may seem outlandish or extreme, but it is entirely in keeping with the way many of the president’s advocates speak of him. Indeed, the tenor of these public pronouncements help explain why he is supported by some 65 percent of white evangelical voters, despite his many improprieties and failings. As Perry’s and White’s remarks remind us, “modern” Christianity has not cast off old ideas. One of its oldest is evident in the “calling and destiny” that White evokes: Implicit in her bombast is a vision of the president as a triumphantly apocalyptic figure, one who evokes the medieval legend of the Last World Emperor.
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However, the phone call was PERFECT. 
The apocalyptic McChristians have been so jiggy for Jesus to return that they resort to the fallacy that they have to make the world end in order for that to happen, which I think is contradicted by certain biblical statements to the contrary.
That, and sheer ignore-ance are recipes for senseless disaster and unwise policies and what was that about, "Get ye wisdom!? That kind of thinking is a like a deadly virus and it reveals very sinister, ulterior motivates that tend to fulfill the Mark of the Beast, (just using their terminology) of Revelations and the idea that, if it were possible, even the Elect would be deceived. It seems they are fulfilling that in a way with their devotion to the mutate McJesus they make in their own image. They are being very sloppy with that and not being wise as serpents, but as dumb as oxen.
That's just my opinion.
