In the 2010s, conservatives rightly mocked what looked like the idolatrous worship of liberal icons

like Barack Obama or Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But some conservatives have fallen into the same

trap of offering idolatrous worship or sycophantic flattery to people like Donald Trump. And in doing

so, some of them have abandoned their Christian values in the process. The fact that liberals and

conservatives easily fall into self-deceived hero worship shows this isn't a partisan problem. It's a

defect in the human condition. There's a natural human tendency to want to trust the leader of the

PAC so much that you need to defend him or her from all attacks. If something is wrong with the

leader, then maybe everything

you believe is wrong. We can't have that now. But this can lead to an almost cultish tendency

of endowing humans with impossible, infallible abilities. Whereas the Simpsons put it,

attention everyone. Let's all give thanks to the leader for this glorious day. The leader is good,

the leader is great.

We surrender our will as of the state.

Now, a leader can have a divine protection of infallibility in some instances.

Protestants agree that when the apostles wrote scripture, the teaching they gave was infallible.

It was divinely protected from error.

And Catholics believe the successors of the apostles have a similar

divine protection from error when they universally and solemnly define a theological issue at an

ecumenical council, or when the Pope speaks ex-cathedra. But the bishops, and even the Pope can make

mistakes in other contexts. Catholics who refuse to criticize the Pope get called Pope's splainers.

But ironically, many of their critics who try to find any reason to criticize the Pope will bend over backwards to explain away the errors and evils of politicians or conservative influencers that they adore, especially people like President Donald Trump. The psalmist warns us, put not your trust in princes in a son of man,

in whom there is no help. When his breath departs, he returns to his earth. On that very day,

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