On July 13, 2024, the Republican candidate for the American elections Donald Trump suffered an attack on Butler, Pennsylvania, while making a speech in front of his cooling followers of the Republican Convention in that state.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, shot a semi -automatic rifle from a position close to the rally, hurting several people who were listening to candidate Trump, the former president himself and killing one of the spectators. His intention, perpetrating a magnicide in the person of Donald Trump, whom, by hazards of fate he only wounded in the right ear, being turning the head at that time to look at one of the areas of the gallery where the followers were.
The American Secret Service immediately resolved the incident resulting in death for Thomas. From the first moment this body of police escort was blamed and failing to the person who directed the operation at that time. So far, with all possible analysis, the facts.
However, as soon as the attack is happening and unharmed, Trump himself declared that his salvation had been a miracle and not the result of chance. Said former president, who often appears publicly with a Bible in his hand, did not stop expressing at any time that thanks to his faith in God he had saved himself from such a terrible outcome. It is true that his head turn was providential, and if I were a radical believer, he would most likely have that same vision. However, mix the speed with the bacon, That is, politics and religion, it is always dangerous.
Trump, although he is a presbyterian cooling, always takes advantage of his rallies to declare that he will defend religious freedom, something very much appreciated in a society where beliefs are the pillar of society in any state. But with respect to the attack, it is interesting to observe how the great American evangelical movements began to mobilize to “Raise to the altars” to the former president, whom they considered from the first moment saved by the hand of Jesus Christ himself.
American fundamentalist movements certainly see how the hand of God is providing them with a charismatic religious leader, although their vital trajectory has always been exempt from certain ethical and moral values. However, it is appreciated and I write it with respect, that a society can have cohabiting so many religious ideas without impairment of anyone’s beliefs.
A few moments ago I spoke with a professor at the University of Oregon on this subject, and he told me that I should not idealize this society. And he told him that he does not usually do it, but in matters of religious freedom we are light years of his federal laws on this issue.
The Bible and the American presidents have always been very close to one of the others. Joe Biden himself is Catholic, practitioner and contrary to abortion, although his position within the Democratic Party has always been favorable to make women who make the decisions that affect their own body. However, much more radical, Trump himself unmarked in a televised face to face that immigrants ended up aborting or killeding them as soon as they were born. These and other similar words were rebuked by the presenters of said debate, which helped Democratic candidate Kamala Harris rise in the surveys, especially in key states.
But the use of a religious book such as the Bible in the US is not new. In the 90s, George Bush, Cristiano Renacido, concluded to start the invasion of Iraq, that Sadam Hussein led the reign of evil, although the most curious thing is that the president of that invaded country himself, thought the same. Although, since always many most fundamentalist Islamism, especially Shiites, have identified the West as The devil’s kingdoms. Even Reagan himself, after having left his attempt to assist, ended up hugging the slogan of the Empire of Evil. They were convulsive and close times at the end of the millennium, and the book of Apocalypse did a lot of damage to certain ways of understanding the book of books.
Likewise, and more recently to Samuel Alito, magistrate of the Supreme Court, was recorded by stating that a return to more orthodox Christianity could be good. And although the first amendment of that Country of countries He acknowledges that everyone is entitled to their beliefs, some states such as Louisiana are generating campaigns so that the ten biblical commandments are exposed in all classrooms and adorn advertising fences in the streets, something that undoubtedly violates the separation of powers where it is clear that politicians cannot impose their religious beliefs. However, in the states of evil called biblical belt, Such as Utah, Oklahoma, Texas where Louisiana herself has always been included, has always tried to impose a certain Christian order, although being, the United States so guarantee, the federal laws that emanate from the Constitution of all of them are always prevailed.
We can undoubtedly have the permanent feeling that the thin line between politics and religion is inseparable in that country, but there is no doubt, federal laws that delve into secularism are strong and resist in front of any glimpse of being manipulated, although cracks exist and in each community it is usually always committed to the most predominant ideas.
Respect for protected religious rights in the United States, by the first amendment, where it does not allow the State to adopt any law for this to happen, helps the coexistence of the more than 300 million citizens who live together under the same flag.
Text of the first amendment written by James Madison approved on September 15, 1791: Congress may not make any law regarding the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free practice of it; nor limiting freedom of expression, nor press; Neither the right to the peaceful assembly of the persons, nor to request the government compensation.
Freedom of worship, and above all that of not persecuting those who do not have the same ideas as a large majority, should be protected by law. Something that despite being so is not fulfilled in many states of the planet. In some of them, such as those where Church and State are imbricated, any other type of beliefs are directly condemned and human rights are violated directly. In others, see the case of many European countries, it is pursued without a solid argument to certain religious organizations only by the mere fact of thinking differently, and this is currently given in countries such as SpainGermany, France and some others, with the acquiescence of some media. We imagine that we will evolve positively when in Europe you learn to live as a single state in some issues and that their own laws are fulfilled, especially in the field of religious freedom and now also in that of press freedom.
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Originally published at LaDamadeElche.com
