Interesting take. I have to admit I truly don't get the whole celebrity "autograph" thing anyway. To each his own.

My knee jerk response was indeed not to respond to your comment.Then it occurred to me that conversation is what this platform is all about. At first I thought you were probably an atheist but then I considered that couldn't be true, because your comment sounded angry and it just doesn't make sense to be angry with a God who doesn't exist.So, it seems to me that you are offended by the fact that there is indeed an evil that we must contend with.Have you considered that is the way in which we have to "earn" God's grace? It totally plays into free will! In life we are made strong by concurring obstacles. If there were no obstacles then growth can not occur. But we have the choice to grow or stay stagnate in our ignorance. If all our needs were met we would have nothing to strive for and free will would be a mute point. We would be essentially robots. Just like in life, there is an emptiness that comes with obtaining that which we didn't earn, I believe God's ultimate plan for us encapsulates that same idea.

@Think

I'm not angry with God, I'm not sure about the character we imagine our God or any previously imagined God or God's to have.
My first exposure to the concept of God was as a five year old entering Catholic School around 1959-60, at least, this is the first memory I have of it because it caught my attention and instantly raised the first of many questions about Religion for me. Questions were a sign of a lack of faith and that wasn't a good thing, I remember.
They asked, "who made you"
The answer "God made me"
They asked "why did God make you"?
The answer "to Know Him, to Love Him and to serve Him in every way, Forever"
I just didn't believe that last part.
They thought I didn't believe any part, but I did.
It was the last part made it sound to me as if God, was Like the Donald in a way.
Materially, he can have anything He wants but He can't get enough Recognition,
Enough Praise, Enough Love from the masses.
I was very young and the whole story was brand new to me, but I thought right off the bat, they're making some of this up and the God I was already imagining had to have far more amazing purposes than that for anything He did as a project.
Creator of the Entire Universe, no beginning or end yet wants more worshipping than all the Angels already do, so makes me?
Can't be.
Upset that Trump signed a Bible?
Maybe only if it was the King James version.
I'm just thinking, the way we all portray God in our Religions is actually scary in the way that Eric Weinstein finds the Donald scary, all that Power at His fingertips and we just can't tell if we're safe because of it or not.
I'm not knocking Donald Trump or God really,
It's the scripts for them that we write that I find say more about us than either of them.
I hope that makes some kind of sense, I've got a lot more questions than answers.

Truth!

I agree with your statement about putting anyone on a pedestal. That said my statement wasn't actually about Trump but rather about the almost paranoid superstition that some people have about the Bible.

@Think probably two sides of the same coin, what anyone else does is meaningless to me, whoever does whatever to some paper won't affect nor will it effect my relationship with my creator

Gotta love Babylon bee!