When Trump mocked the one guy with a disability, it was a response to criticism of his opinion on immigration following when ISIS attacked Paris. While it is a valid point to need to view things in context, I noticed a couple things about a video talking about some sort of email chain. The guy wondered why they are still riding Trump about the whole Serge Kovaleski thing a year later- funny thing from a guy from a party that's been riding Clinton about Benghazi for four years to the point where other things came to light which are more legitimate reason to not vote for her (and where communists and the far right have a common goal). The email he got was from Catholics4Trump.com that said that Trump never actually mocked the disabled because context. This takes me back to the time I was in a Bible study around the time of the Trayvon Martin thing and the Catholic girl I was seeing at the time (though she wanted to be a nun more and more the more she knew me) tried to convince me that the Trayvon Martin thing was a hoax because the media took excerpts of the phone call and repackaged them in a more sensationalized way, and when I had an issue with it, our friends backed her up. While I don't believe everything that's said about Trump (or Kim Davis for that matter), while I know that the direction of the Catholic vote is representative of the direction of the country, it is fair to say that the primary movers and shakers in religion these days have acted questionably in regards to race relations, and many young Evangelicals aren't with that.
As far as I know, with the notable exception of Harper's Ferry- where anti- slavery Quakers raided a federal arsenal in Virginia around the time of the Bleeding Kansas controversy in the lead- up to the Civil War, Christians have never had a problem with the American government prior to Ruby Ridge- a standoff with a home schooled family in Idaho where US Marshals fired on pets and children in 1992 which was referenced in Tim Mcveigh's (radical Catholic) rationale for blowing up the Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 (he also referenced the ATF setting fire to the Branch Davidian compound in Waco in 1993).
Whether one believes or disbelieves, that does not stop a person "filling a void with earthly things", especially in contemporary iterations of belief. Disbelievers want you to want, and then ask you why you think you're entitled. Believers want you to want, and then ask you why you think you're entitled. I've seen where that takes people. It takes people to outpatient psychiatric and on and off antidepressants and diagnoses of schizophrenia and Asperger's after years of catching hell for trying to hit on girls online. It reduces old men to begging for money on the street corner because for years, respectfulness got them money, but respectfulness doesn't get a guy paid anymore. It leads to the basement dweller type that both Hillary and conservatives rag on because millennials don't know their own skills despite being in school for however long (though I need to point out that most people in school do take a degree program that is based in practical knowledge needed for a professional skill). Where I do agree with the Church to a certain extent is that the problem with this culture is a deliberate lack of intimacy and community building.
Whether I believe or not, I still have to think about how much do I have to compromise what I'm about in order to be cool enough to get along well in the social aspects of what I do, and it is in that regard that I am still very much a young person. Yet I have the means to think independently from my parents and the anxieties of their generation.
