"Papa, how can you vote for him?" my then thirteen-year-old son asked me one night in 2016.  "He's so crude."  The "him" of the question was then-candidate Donald John Trump.  I answered: Brendan, I know he swears and is crude, but so are a lot of the best men I've ever known.  I've known guys who talk like sailors that would give you the shirt off their back.  And I've known men who present themselves as holier than thou and would certainly never use bad words, but they'd stab you in the back and not think twice about it.  Trump is crude, but those other men so worried about what he says have had their chance to run the country.  A lot of those men (and women) in those debates and other pundits who express outrage at Trump's coarseness have the blood of hundreds of thousands of Christians on their hands from their Middle East wars that unleashed hell on those poor people.  That's...(Read Full Post)