“I’m being indicted for you” sounds a lot to me like Jesus suffered and died for you.

When people say something to me that sounds a little too much like they are obviously tailoring their conversation to manipulate me it gives me the heebie geebies. Do people actually just get sucked in by it? I can’t fathom it.

Do you think it is an accident that Trump worded his latest statement about the indictment that way?

I once read an excerpt from a book that talked about how Bush used to purposely use religious terminology in his speeches, and that people who aren’t religious would not even realize it. After I read that I started to recognize more when this was happening, but I am sure a lot of it gets past me.

Sometimes politicians are very blatant and honest about it, saying they are quoting form the bible or some other holy book, but other times it is not obvious and instead what I would call the language of the church, which is like a foreign language to some of us.

Topics: religion, Jesus, jargon, Trump, terminology, Christians, persuasion