Even If Not a Pious Christian
Nobody thinks that the end of the world is close since the 21st century began without collapse of the human civilization and the world still continues without any sign of a fall of the human civilization.
However, the world is facing more dangerous trends of movements and states of peoples and nations than it faced the 9/11 Terror and the 2008 Financial Crisis.
It is not statistics about economy and political incidents that cast a shadow on the future. It is degradation of human ethics.
Representative persons in this trend are Trump, Putin, and Xi. However, there are hundreds of millions of people who support them. On the other hand, opponents to them are not necessarily decent persons as they deny important teachings of the Bible, supporting indecent activities in the name of liberal, progressive, or anti-establishment.
Those who support Trump, Putin, and Xi are brainwashed by money, power, and militarism. They are far from ethical teaching of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, etc.
Especially, in the Western world commercialism is taking over the basic framework of society from Christianity. No ethical conditions are respected by Trump and supporters for him. It is partly because supporters for Trump are disappointed with some major Western Media that superficially uphold ethics, but they are pursuing and enjoying wealth and high status above ordinary people. People are disappointed at, say, Obama and other progressive politicians, since these liberal politicians are highly educated elite members of society and share little with ordinary people, to tell the truth. Trump is too rich to be regarded as a friend of ordinary people, but Trump attacks those Media and progressive politicians who are now disliked by ordinary people. People like to see indecent Trump attacking superficially decent progressive politicians and Media.
Putin is appealing to Russians, behaving like a big man, seeking to capitalize on Trump and selling a dream of making Russia strong again. Xi has been seeking to capitalize on pro-China US elites and politicians to make China strong, which is a long-term dream of the Chinese people. With or without Trump, the US should start to take seriously the Chinese challenge, which would affect many people concerned in various countries.
The expected role of the US is to suppress irrational behaviors of Putin, Xi, and the likes. But Trump is handling Putin, Xi, and the likes in a dubious way. To solve this issue, the US should choose as US President a more decent politician with good moral character, even if not a pious Christian.
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Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.