Leadership requires impec- cable moral character and intellectual integrity, not mental and physical cruelty. Nation-state dictators do not possess either of these char- acteristics. Former President Donald J. Trump has ex- pressed open admiration for dictators and has declared if elected as President he will be a dictator for a day, but we all know that a day is forever. America, character matters, especially when individuals hold leadership positions of authority over others, because leadership involves making death and life decisions. Hence, the tongue can be a deadly weapon. This is why the Bible spiritually reminds us that: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” (Proverbs 18: 21). Make no mistake about it, Donald J. Trump, has a foul deadly tongue, because he only speaks about individual freedom, and never speaks about collective responsibility. What life do we have if we do not have life together, because there is no life that is not lived in human community, and no peace if not lived under the authority of God that equal is equal. America this is the socio-spiritual meaning of death, because: “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judg- ment.” (Hebrews 9: 27). Just in case readers do not spiritually understand the importance of learning to love people rather than things the above scriptural verse is simply a reminder that death separates us for things, but we should never separate ourselves from the love of God that was in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah! Trump speaks an awful lot about mental and physical cruelty. In so doing, he has turned American society spiritually upside-down and inside out.

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