> Where I am from (New Zealand) a lot of Christians I have spoken with are appalled by Trump and don't buy into the whole "Gawd Bless Americuh" narrative that T

> Where I am from (New Zealand) a lot of Christians I have spoken with are appalled by Trump and don't buy into the whole "Gawd Bless Americuh" narrative that Trump seems to use to persuade a certain demographic into voting for him. The ancient religions in the Levant were basically this. Each city-state had its own deity, and when you went to any city, you were expected to worship the local god. This changed when the Babylonian empire overthrew the ancient kingdom of Israel, ended the promised 'Eternal dynasty' of king David after just a couple generations, and exiled the priests. This led to the writing of the book of Job, from one side, and to the dissociation of the deity from the city, as the priests lost their homeland. I see the current developments as a 'regression to the mean'.