The Qualifiers and Conditionals That Republicans Think Are in the Bible

In the study of rhetoric, there are a couple of devices that readers need to be on the lookout for:

• A qualifier is a word or phrase that specifically limits the meaning of a sentence or part of a sentence (Ex: Several women drivers that I know are horrible.  This sentence does not say all women drivers are horrible, since qualifiers have been included.); 
• A conditional is generally an "if" clause (or the like) that states a singular criterion for the outcome to be true.  (Ex: If you study hard, the test should be easy.  This sentence does not say the test will be easy for everyone because a condition has been stated for the test to be easy.)

The Bible is generally pretty clear and does not offer too many of either of those when it comes to "rules to live by"; Christian Republicans who worship Trump seem to have forgotten that fact.  Here, though, is a handy-dandy (however incomplete) list of a few verses in the Bible that offer no qualifiers or conditionals even though current Christian Republicans seem to think they are there.

Citation	Actual Verse	Conditional/Qualifier NOT  Actually in the Verse
Leviticus 19:33-34	“When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God."	As long as that foreigner has immigrated through a legal port of entry and has proceeded through all the proper legal channels … and isn’t poor and brown
Genesis 2:15	“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work [better translated as ‘serve’] it and keep [better translated as ‘guard and protect’] it.”	Unless big businesses are impacted financially by environmental laws, thereby hurting jobs and the stock market
Exodus 20:7 AND Matthew 5:28	“You shall not commit adultery.” AND “I [Jesus] tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”	Unless you run for political office and are, on the surface at least, anti-abortion.  THEN you can get a pass (or 2 or 3 or 10 or whatever).
Proverbs 12:22	“Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.”	Except if you’re a Republican who has hit the 10,000-public-lie mark in under 3 years.
Matthew 5:44	“I [Jesus] say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”	Unless you can publicly bully your enemies with a tweet-storm of thoroughly uninspired, juvenile name-calling
Luke 4:40	“While the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and laying His hands on each one of them, He was healing them.”	As long as they could prove they did not have pre-existing conditions and could pay for His services
Micah 6:8	“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”	Unless you’re the President, since overt kindness and humility are for sissies!

Here's my point.  The middle column, without any additions or subtractions or qualifiers or conditionals, SHOULD be the Christian's moral compass; however, with this particular Republican in the White House, most white evangelicals have taken it upon themselves to excuse him rather than accuse him for his moral vacuity.  And if you are one of those, then your politics mean significantly more to you than your religion.