A friend of mine keeps posting these almost hysterical posts claiming that President Trump and Elon Musk are trying to create an authoritarian dictatorship. A true Christians, he and his progressive Christian friends say, should oppose Trump's efforts to clean up the government. It's an evil trick, he says. It continually amazes me that so many "Christians" are so opposed to the dismantling of the corrupt progressive deep state; a state that has robbed taxpayers to pay for its insidious power grab. They accuse those dismantling the machinery of power of trying to create some kind of autocracy. And further confusing me, they actually believe that giving power to a pro-socialist government that is so in the pocket of the real corporate wealthy "oligarchs" is a Christian thing to do. Instead, they accuse the tiny handful of wealthy people who are actually trying to defang the oligarchy of wanting to be dictators.
If you want to be a dictator the first thing you do is enlarge the government, make it more powerful, limit criticism of what you are doing by curbing free speech, and bleed off as much money as possible from the rabble so they are so poor that you can control them easily. And you keep promising them a worker's paradise and try to convince them you will give them positions of authority in the new world order. And among Christian religions, it's no accident that the head of the church that wants us all to come back under the "mother" church's authority is a socialist pope.
Of the 40 richest men in the world who could be called oligarchs only 4 that I know of could even remotely be called conservatives. It's not accidental that so few truly wealthy men are in favor of a smaller, less powerful, less intrusive government and more freedom. All four are thoroughly despised by the progressive left.
And why in the name of all that's holy do "Christians" believe that progressive socialism and more powerful government will give us the man-made Utopia they promise us. "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" and a large majority of us sinners have no interest in letting God make us better human beings. It's all about power and control in the end. That's what Satan said was wrong with the way God made Earth. All that free will, he argued, needed to be controlled. They needed a ruler....oh, I don't know. Someone like SATAN? Inevitably, kingdoms, empires or People's Democratic Socialist Republics are neither democratic, nor of the people, nor are they republics.They're almost never free.
Notice who sets up the loudest howl when you threaten to throw light on the corruption of any system of government. Who threatens real violence (hint - read the comments of Democrats and progressives objecting to DOGE)? Why do you think they tried to assassinate Trump two or three times already? Especially when they couldn't find a way to put him in jail. Kick over a rat's nest and watch the rats squeal and scatter. How is any of what's been revealed by Musk and Trump's teams in any way Christian? A couple of million dollars worth of condoms for Somalia or Yemen - someplace like that. . An LGBQT opera for Cuba? More millions for transgender surgery in Guatemala?.Anti-disinformation training millions for Kazakhstan to aid its authoritarian government in controlling what is said about it. How about more millions for DEI training in Middle Eastern countries? And tens of millions to terrorist supporting organizations around the world.
Meanwhile American disaster victims are left high and dry, relying on the goodness of their Christian neighbors to survive while FEMA doles out a pittance and claims to be helping. Really? We Christians should be supporting all that corruption because you say we should hate Donald Trump and Elon Musk? I far more trust those guys. They are wealthy and immune to bribes and manipulation. So, you say, we should support what - rich progressive oligarchs like George Soros and the majority of corporate CEOs who wear the progressive badge? Guys who buy corrupt district attorneys who protect them from the consequences of their actions and punish anyone who opposes them are to be our heroes? That's what you're telling me? Robber Barons who wage lawfare against elected officials. Justice Department lawyers they keep on their under the table payrolls to do their dirty work for them. Wealthy donors who buy huge tax breaks for themselves by pouring money into the coffers of pliant politicians? These are who we should trust and follow?
I remember that Jesus once turned over some tables when He found corruption in the Temple. He scattered the corrupt moneychangers with a whip! Can you say USAID? I suppose not, if you're a unrepentant Marxist progressive.
I'm not under any delusion that we'll ultimately win this fight. The Bible does not describe any such period of lasting peace at the world's end. On the contrary, we are promised that they shall cry peace peace and then sudden destruction comes upon them. "Progressives" will ultimately win their shot at Utopia and I suspect anyone who stands against them at that time will be the first (but not the last) up against the wall.
God may be sending those angels for a time to hold back the winds of strife long enough for us to complete the Great Commission and preach the gospel to the ends of the Earth. But once that's done, the rebellious choirmaster will rise in apparent victory and turn loose the armies of hell against God's children. At that time Michael shall stand up, Jesus our Savior, and He will come in the clouds to take us and the righteous dead Home with Him. As we leave the wicked remnants of Earth will destroy themselves in a frenzy of fury leaving the planet desolate for a thousand years, until the resurrection of the wicked, the final judgment and the second death of those who would be miserable living in the presence of God. And then the Earth will be made new and Christ will give our beautiful world back to us and we will live forever in peace and abundant joy.
Should Christians then attack Elon and Donald because they are upsetting progressive plans to seize more power and to create a human Utopia by fiat?
I don't think so, Skippy. Been tried too many times and left too many hundreds of millions of dead behind. Someone is coming to save us and our reward is with Him.
© 2025 by Tom King
