It is deeply offensive to see sacramentals such as Bibles and rosaries used as tools for consolidating earthly power or, worse, for turning a profit.
are salesmen — historically great ones, in fact. It’s not a knock. Waging a successful run for the White House, an achievement both men can boast, is a sales job of epic proportions. Successful presidential campaigns don’t just sell a laundry list of policy items, nor do they merely pander to individual identity groups, as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton learned the hard way in 2016.
So, it’s no surprise that both men have attempted to incorporate Christian symbols and themes in their campaign efforts despite having a tenuous relationship with the faith. After all,, according to the most recent Gallup survey. And as part of a sales tactic for their overarching vision, Biden and Trump strive to appear welcoming to Christians of various stripes.
Biden, for one, regularly brandishes his rosary in front of cameras and fondly recounts his Irish Catholic upbringing to justify his political philosophy. However, his self-presentation as a working-class “Catholic Democrat” in the mid-20th century mold is suffused with exaggeration and artifice. Biden may have been born in blue-collar Scranton, Pennsylvania, but he was raised in a Boston suburb and attended Archmere Academy, an elite Catholic prep school.
While Christians should be pleased when politicians court their vote through sincere engagement, they should be wary of any attempt by a politician to wield the faith as a campaign tool. Such behavior reduces the divine to the earthly and exalts earthly leaders to the status of the divine. When Jesus flipped tables and drove money changers out of the temple, it wasn’t because he despised commercial activity but rather because commercial activity had no place in the temple. His response when asked whether or not it was lawful to pay taxes to Caesar further stresses the point: We are to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God not because they are coequal, but because their kingdoms are of entirely different orders. They are not on equal footing.
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