President Donald Trump’s vice president and secretary of state appear
to have a conflict between their private religious beliefs and their
public duties, according to a financial journalist.
Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo are each a “genuine, end-of-days, believer in the apocalypse,” and Financial Times journalist Edward Luce said their religious beliefs about the end times exerts a troubling influence on their duties.
“Generally I believe a public figure’s beliefs should be irrelevant
to their job,” Luce wrote. “Whether they’re atheist, Opus Dei, Buddhist
or Muslim, should have no bearing on our assessment of their fitness for
office. Yet I can’t help but feel anxious that both of Donald Trump’s
main global envoys, Pompeo and Pence, have a conflict between their
private beliefs and what they publicly claim to be doing.”
Luce argued that both Trump administration officials were part of a
“millenarian cult,” and he worried their “militant creed” would
influence their public policies to spark a “final conflagration in which
the righteous will vanquish the wicked.”
“Call me a serial fretter, but I don’t take comfort from the fact
that Pence is a heartbeat away from being commander-in-chief,” Luce
wrote. “Nor do I see Pompeo as one of the grown-ups restraining Trump.
He’s an enabler, not a preventer. Where Trump goes, Pompeo will follow.
Let’s hope Trump never gets religion.”
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