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I wonder why anyone thinks that Trump is religious or even spiritual at all, let alone be part of that small minority who go so far as to portray him alongside Jesus?

One possible reason is that the Democrats and the wider Left have long painted the Republicans as 'Christofascist' with very tenuous arguments ('don't elect Reagan, he's a Christian fundamentalist who will trigger a nuclear war to bring about the End Times! Don't elect GWB, some of the "neocons" had Leo Strauss as a teacher, and Strauss had Carl Schmitt as a teacher, and Carl Schmitt was affiliated with the Nazis! GWB is a Nazi!'). America's pseudo-Right then simply react to what these people spew but with the value-judgements reversed ('The Dumbocrats say that Reagan is a Christian extremist, cool!')

I suppose I could picture Trump as adhering to a sort of transactional version of religion like the yids: God as a sort of equal with whom you can negotiate, and, if you negotiate shrewdly, can get a great deal from. This reflects their staunch materialism. Since Trump has indubitably been mired in their culture and thought from his early days, surrounded by the likes of Roy Cohn, that would simply have rubbed off on him. Provided, of course, that he wasn't a staunch materialist to begin with.

I can also picture him as a staunch atheist who privately thinks very poorly of non- and anti-materialist worldviews. He might have the odd doubt in atheism here and there, but otherwise just sees Christians as a group that he needs to reluctantly bargain with, cater to, and would rather not have to listen to at all. He probably thinks: 'Boy, I am so sick of playing along with these people and pretending to share their concerns.'

Far from being a warrior type, he, like the yids who use him, is a manager, a merchant of dubious wares, a con artist, a shrewd negotiator. The Art of the Deal instead of the Art of War. Christianity just needs to be brought to the negotiating table, like the Iranians and Venezuelans abroad. Give the Christians what *seems* to them like a good deal - a little bit of God-speak usually does the trick, is all it takes - and they'll give you what you really want and which is worth much more in return, namely, millions of votes. He is a man who almost completely thinks in terms of benefit, expediency - the good deal, the negotiating table - and recognition.