Her Name Is Nemesis

Dear Evangelicals: The Coronavirus has exposed the falsehood of so many of your notions about Trump: that experts are unnecessary; hunches are a substitute for knowledge; competence in administration is overrated; every criticism is a hoax; that Trump is God’s chosen. Now you know that either God is a fake or Trump is. Who are you going to stick with?

It’s hard to think of anything so uniquely suited for exposing Trump and his evangelical supporters’ hubris, ignorance, prejudice, mendacity and catastrophic self-regard than a modern version of a non-negotiable plague. So much for Trump as “God’s anointed one.” 

The same lack of trust that pervaded the relationship between the Soviet regime and its people now pervades the relationship between all of sane non-evangelical America and Trump/Pence.

Trump/Pence’s version of “Putting America First” — their slogan — actually means putting real Americans last. Trump betrayed us to Russia, and now he’s betrayed us to a virus. 

Here’s the disconnect between evangelical fantasy and reality: Trump’s flippant promise that the coronavirus test is available “to all who need it,” “now” and the sobering reality that kits are in critically low supply.

Trump thinks he can twist everything to suit his needs. He just discovered he cannot twist the truth of nature, science and fact. The real god of “nature” has revealed herself to Trump at last. Her name is NEMESIS.

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Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend’s death, Frank Schaeffer finds himself simultaneously believing and not believing in God—an atheist who prays. Schaeffer wrestles with faith and disbelief, sharing his innermost thoughts with a lyricism that only great writers of literary nonfiction achieve. Schaeffer writes as an imperfect son, husband and grandfather whose love for his family, art and life trumps the ugly theologies of an angry God and the atheist vision of a cold, meaningless universe. Schaeffer writes that only when we abandon our hunt for certainty do we become free to create beauty, give love and find peace. Available now at Amazon.
 

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In 1998, Frank Schaeffer was a bohemian novelist living in “Volvo driving, higher-education worshipping” Massachusetts with two children graduated from top universities. Then his youngest child, straight out of high school, joined the United States Marine Corps. Written in alternating voices by eighteen-year-old John and his father, Frank, Keeping Faith takes readers in riveting fashion through a family’s experience of the Marine Corps: from being broken down and built back up on Parris Island (and being the parent of a child undergoing that experience), to the growth of both father and son and their separate reevaluations of what it means to serve. Available now at Amazon.

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