I told a couple of people last week the best theory as to why there is apparently no stated "quid pro quo" that we can find that Trump said to Putin. It's because the relation didn't start this year or last year or in 2016. It began at least ten years ago. Trump and Putin have had a longstanding relationship for all this time. If you were a judge or a jury trying a case you wouldn't look to the end of a relationship to find out how it began; you would trace the relationship back to beginning and did around there till you found something. There no doubt were quid pro quo type statements but they were made a long time ago back in 2009 or whenever, to establish the relationship. It's kind of like tracing out a church doctrine. If you were to trace when Jesus as the sacrifical "Lamb of God" doctrine got started you would have to go to the people who believed in sacrificing animals in worship. You would look to the Jewish Temple, which is the last place they want you to look. You would look to the Jewish priests, who are the one group of people Jesus actually respected. Even when he was being tried by the Jewish priests in the Bible's own words, Jesus did not revile the priests or call it some kind of a kangaroo court. What I think happened is that we assume that Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus did so on kind of a whim or talked into it at the last minute. What if Judas had been a thorn in Jesus side for some months forever talking about "The Law" and being Jewish and sacrifices and all. Perhaps Judas betrayed Judas because he wanted to bring Jesus' ministry back to the Jewish Law. What if there were a whole fifth collum in the ranks of the Jewish priests who secretly wanted to destroy Jesus' ministry from within. Later on they still believed in their doctrine of trying to come up with a "sacrifice for all time" that would preserve spiritual Zionism and somehow rescue scripture that was going unfilled as far as God's promises to Israel concerning the Messiah are concerned. You could have a Messiah but it needn't be one who is alive, you know. A dead Messiah is easier to handle. He doesn't talk back. He never disagrees with any of your half baked schemes about setting up some kind of a new Organization to worship this Messiah that would be world wide. And eventually just maybe God would return and set up Zion.
There are four good reasons to be an Atheist. They can be divided into two basic reasons. One is that you can "stop looking for God because he doesn't exist. He can't be found if he doesn't exist. Also you don't have to say "God damn it" every time something doesn't go your way or you somehow think God has it in for you and are "Lashing out at him" as psychologists love to say. You can't "lash out" against something or someone who couldn't care less what you think because in human terms, he doesn't even qualify as being Alive. And if he isn't Alive he can't feel anything. And the last thing you want to do is to have a one way conversation with yourself. People are driven crazy that way. But the other big reason for being an Atheist is accountability. There is no one to tithe too, or give one tenth of your worldly goods to. And there is no Church to interject themselves and say "God can't be reached right now but he sent me here as his representative to receive your gifts. Next of all if you are a scientist you don't have to worry that "God is looking over your shoulder" forever fearful that you might discover some secret that would unmask him and somehow reveal that he's a fraud to begin with. And people who unmask people in Ancient times are guilty of a horrible offence of blasphamy or something and are put to death. Finally we have the idea that we don't have a national religion that requires the same object of worship in all Americans and if you somehow don't believe there is something horribly wrong with you. Maybe we'll have a gay president before we ever have a Moslem, an Atheist or even a Jew. Jews can be dangerous you know because they don't believe Jesus died on the cross for their sins. Imagine a Atheist world. The chances are if nobody else believed in God around you then you wouldn't either. NOT believing would be Normal and believers would be looked on as odd. But as it is there is social pressure all around us to at least fake like you're a Christian. Think about it.
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