For a while now I have thought that if the god of the Bible really is God, and if we take him at his own biblical word, then he is a bully and a liar who brags about what he does and overstates his abilities and goodness.

For instance: he said he created the world perfectly but the reality is that his first experiment with humans pretty quickly ended in failure (garden of Eden). Like every abusing narcissist when his plans went awry he blamed everybody else and took no responsibility for it claiming that his plans had been perfect and everybody else ruined them.

I feel like the story of Job really encapsulates the personality of the god of the Bible. He was willing to make a petty bet with another supreme being, using the humans that worshiped him and loved him as pawns. Without a thought for their well-being he killed them and tortured them indiscriminately just to win a bet with the devil.

Things got so bad that after a few thousand years he had to send his son down to clean up the mess. And while the son seems to be a good guy, the father even tortured and killed him --though it wasn't permanent. Torturing and killing the people that love you seems to be a recurring theme here.

The father is so bad at being God that now all of humanity must go through the son, I guess because either God the Father can't be bothered anymore, or even he finally realized all that smiting was terrible PR.

So if you look at God's actions you see him as one sort of being ( a thin-skinned angry vengeful braggart, who takes credit for the good stuff and blames the bad on others). It doesn't tally with an all good Father God who is your personal savior.

And his followers basically give Him a pass every time he screws up. Famine across a whole continent? Oh, they must have sinned. Widespread disease? Oh, they were probably gay, or Muslim. It was Christians dying? Were they True Christians? They were? Oh, God must have loved them so much that he tested them like he tested Job.

It's the "it was just locker room talk" of the Church.

Which brings me back to my premise: Evangelical Christians, especially, see Trump as being godly, because he is godly in exactly the same ways that their God of the Bible is. They are both rich, powerful, entitled, arrogant, disdainful, and perfectly willing to allow those that worship them to sacrifice their lives to them. They both allegedly have the power to help the lowest and most desperate of people, but simply choose not to.

It's really no wonder that they have practically deified Trump. He and their God are two peas in a pod.