Every One That Asketh Receiveth

Evangelical Christians who saw the human immunodeficiency virus as a lucrative propaganda opportunity are having their faith proven in the Trumpster's bonfire of USAid. Although they campaigned for the Trumpster and his head-tribble on the grounds of their favourability to the coathanger school of gynaecology, some congregations are wavering because the assault on overseas aid has cut off the supply of anti-retroviral drugs to treat HIV. This could lead to a resurgence in cases and, at worst, a great many people in Heaven who ought to be paying tithes and hunting gays on Earth. While some organisations are taking the spiritual view and resigning themselves humbly to the punishment of their inferiors, others are doing their best to make clear that they practise Christian medicine as opposed to mere medicine and should not be forced to rely on thoughts and prayers. God and Baby Jesus, who recently took some little trouble to deflect an assassin's ammunition off the Trumpster's earlobe and into a nearby family man, appear thus far to be refraining from comment.