Jitterbugging for Jesus

Celsus was a 2nd-century Greek Platonist who wrote an extremely anti-Christian screed.

Televangelist Paula White of Florida (what’s up with Florida???) is one of Donald J. Trump’s favorite “spiritual advisors.” (Orange-headed gentlemen prefer blonds?) She’s part of a symposium of loud-mouth frogs who have helped Trump create a Swamp full of slimy money-grubbers.

In fact, the famous Christian apologist Origen made his fame by refuting Celsus’s anti-Christian rant in a document called “Against Celsus.” Origen picked apart Celsus’s flawed, wrongheaded assumptions about Christianity.

And Christians owe a debt to the influential Origen to this day for sharpening what we Christians believe about all things God, and why we believe it.

But you have to give Celsus credit for being a far more colorful writer than Origen. Celsus described Christians as “a swarm of bats,” “ants creeping out of their nest,” “frogs holding a symposium round a swamp,” and my favorite — “worms in conventicle in a corner of the mud.”

You also have to give Celsus credit for what was a perfectly prophetic, predictive description of Jerry Falwell Jr., Paula White, James Dobson, Robert Jeffrees, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Franklin Graham, Tony Perkins and all the other loud-mouth frogs “holding symposiums round the Swamp” that lying, crooked Donald J. Trump and all the aforementioned have created.