We all have to go; the only question is when. Some are more bothered by it than others. As I write these words, I have no idea what the article says about Trump. I have told people that rich people probably fear death more than poor people because in our materialist world, they have to leave a lot of things behind, and if there is a heaven or a hell, which one are they going to? If Hindu, will you be born as a human because of your present life or as a cockroach to be stepped on or sprayed with Raid? If Buddhist, many rebirths to maybe reach a perfect eternity and quit existing. Muslims, like Christians, believe in Heaven and Hell. So what do the therapists have to say about Trump?
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President Donald Trump has been talking a lot about the afterlife lately, writes HuffPost writer Brittany Wong.
“I think I’m not maybe heaven-bound,” he said recently. “I may be in heaven right now as we fly in Air Force One. I’m not sure I’m gonna be able to make heaven, but I’ve made life a lot better for a lot of people.”
Wong also points out that Trump recently spoke about the necessity of heaven: “If you don’t have heaven, you almost say, ‘What’s the reason? Why do I have to be good?’” Trump admitted during a “Fox & Friends” interview last year.
“At 79, President Trump is getting up there,” said Wong and New York-based psychologist Cynthia Shaw, who specializes in existential confrontation, loneliness and selfhood. And people often start thinking about heaven when they’re forced to contemplate their advanced age.
Death anxiety, also known as thanatophobia, is the fear or worry surrounding one’s own mortality. Concerns like Trump’s reflect a common psychological pattern for those grappling with such anxiety, according to Rachel Menzies, a psychologist and author of “Mortals: How the Fear of Death Shaped Human Society.”
“The idea that goodness or achievement can somehow protect us from the finality of death is believed by many,” said Menzies. “It’s often a way of managing the uncomfortable truth that mortality is outside our control, by turning it into something we can earn, influence or negotiate.”
Well, if our Lord Jesus is a Socialist, which the Bible says he was based on his teaching, then I have a good idea where Trump is going on that eternal trip.
The following is from the
The Rich Young Man.*
16h Now someone approached him and said, “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?”*
17He answered him, “Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good.* If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
18* i He asked him, “Which ones?” And Jesus replied, “ ‘You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness;
19honor your father and your mother’; and ‘you shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
20* The young man said to him, “All of these I have observed. What do I still lack?”
21j Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect,* go, sell what you have and give to [the] poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
22When the young man heard this statement, he went away sad, for he had many possessions.
23* Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.
24k Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
