Johnson fancies himself as a devoted Evangelical Christian and that "God is using trump for his purposes", so he tolerates and protects him. That's the problem with many Evangelicals. They support trump because, whatever they may think of him personally, they also believe that he will usher in the apocalypse and bring about Jesus's return.

However, trump can and quite often does "go too far" even for Johnson and other's taste and tolerance for blasphemy.

Johnson WILL abandon him for self preservation when and if it comes to that. So will Vance. Vance is a Catholic who does not appreciate the attacks on the Pope or the trumpas Jesus memes. So far, his ambition and expectation of the apocalypse trump may trigger allows him to tolerate much of the insanity and blasphemy.

However, knowing as I do the strength of true religious beliefs present, I'm pretty sure that his belief and the potential fate of his "immortal soul" being at risk will cause him to save himself if push comes to shove. NONE of them would risk their "immortal souls" for anyone, especially the likes of trump. They only do now because they believe God is using trump as an instrument to bring about the prophecy of Revelations.

You can't get through to them with appeals to reason or critical thinking because there is no reason nor critical thinking involved in having faith or true belief in anything spiritual so deeply embraced.

Belief is not volitional, it simply is. By bringing in worldly concerns or doubts, their very soul and faith is threatened. To them, seriously questioning that faith is equal to heresy and if taken beyond a random thought to actual consideration could result in a loss of said faith It becomes equal to spiritual death, something far, far worse than physical death.

They will deny, fight, and curse anything that threatens those beliefs and their faith in them. I know this from personal experience and the resulting complete loss of my own faith due to allowing myself to question my own beliefs employing critical thinking in an attempt to defend them. Once my faith had cracks in it due to the now obvious faults inherent in foundation of biblical beliefs**, my belief and faith were totally destroyed and I suffered extreme emotional destruction and guilt for allowing someone to implant doubt within me by appealing to my more dominant critical thinking. So, suffice it to say that I get WHY the "fsithful" can't allow themselves the indulgence of questioning what they unconsciously know is BS out of fear.



** The basic foundation that God HAD to create a way for sinners to be cleansed and then forgiven their sins against his commandments through Jesus' spilled blood rather than simply forgiving them himself. God KNOWINGLY created a totally ridiculous system that was absolutely going to fail because humans are inherently flawed and HE made them that wway.The entire design was a set up for failure. HE put the snake into the proverbial garden knowing his creations would fail. Then threw them out in anger to punish them for what was NOT their fault in any reasonable way. THEN punished all of their descendants for the sins of their original parents.

Once that went down, so did everything else. The God of the bible is a malignant narcissist who hasn't an ounce of love for his creations and who better resembles horrifically flawed humans more than any version of an all knowing, all loving, and fair God.

Nothing makes ANY sense once that basic premise collapses. What does make sense is that the Bible was written by ignorant men who tried to make sense of the natural world by modeling their Hod after the WORST examples of mankind. The sociopaths and psychopaths amongst them with a set of unattainable rules that all would fail.

Then making up rules and utter nonsense to keep other humans in line by convincing them that questioning ANY of it would destroy their "immortal souls" and cause them never-ending torture in the flames of hell. Great way to keep people in line without question and the chosen way of evil men throughout the ages who used beliefs that they didn't actually believe against those who did.

Enough about that. I got carried away.