Q: Time for closing arguments? A: If those arguments are not heard, not yet.
I am a witness; a member of a church. I am not an ordained pastor. The readers who read my blog, know me to be critical and pointed. And, I have a place here, to advise and provide clarity regarding our world’s current times. It is an act of love that my Pope speaks of, in the meaning of the word mercy, expressed. For spiritual needs, religious service has no substitute. Receiving Gospel is integral to freedom. Without this, we are not suitable to be governed by any exemplary secular government.
I draw your attention to abortion. The good news is that every day that you are alive, you have an opportunity to repent for the killing of your baby. Repenting begins with feeling bad about it in your heart, and ultimately not promoting this activity to others. The bad news for those who flaunt against and mock our religion by promoting ideas contrary to life, in their obstinacy – contrary to Catholic and other religious teachings, seal their fate and abandon moral conviction. Their blatant disregard for the foundation of our very existence in body, make freedom and good governance in want; and leave us with a government that is vain and useless to us.
What is worse in that obstinacy, is the partaking of the joy and revelry of promoting such evil, or laughing with a face that smiles while underneath, exist contempt and hatred for us and for what we stand for. All the more harmful, is the disregard for the legitimacy of becoming a governor, through means that are flip, self serving, and power acquiring, through ruthless and immoral endeavor. That is why, it is our duty and is justified by the Word of God, to not only oppose such governance, but also to remove its ugly head from our virtuous government buildings.
Christians as a whole, in this country, make up more than 30% of the participating voters in the United States. This, and some more data I am about to share with you, comes from the studies of the “Faith and Freedom Coalition” whose foes are well known. In the mid-term election of 2014, “Faith and Freedom Coalition” states about it: “…self-identified conservative Christians made up 32 percent of the electorate and voted 86 percent Republican and only 12 percent Democrat.” The finding goes on to state that: “These voters contributed an astonishing 52.4 percent of all the votes received by GOP candidates.” Notice, this does not say Catholics only, (the powerful and consistent through history swing voting block). It says, “all Christians” which make an even larger block who collectively has the moral conviction to stand up against dictators who oppose Christian teachings and Christians. Again, we did, in the 2014 mid-term thanks be to God. Let’s finish what we started, and not be cowards, demoted and kicked aside despite our virtue.
John Adams, our second American president once said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Only for a moral and religious people! Are we still moral people? If not, that means that those of us who are, have a moral duty to ourselves and to others, to vote out religious leaders who seek to rule over us without such shared moral values in them! I do not want my next president to regard our Constitution as having less inherent value than toilet paper, do you? And Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president and the author of America’s Declaration of Independence once asked, “God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?” In similar supposition, I ask, “Should we vote for a person who has clearly demonstrated in the campaigning and what she said publicly, boldly and defiantly, that these convictions do not matter in today’s world anymore? No, we should not! I don’t want my children, or anyone I love, to face an America in which the “nanny state” meets and joins with “big brother”!
Clearly, there are people who have already made up their minds to vote for the next president based on hostile hearts that they have groomed: namely that they do not wish to be preached to about the lack of virtue of the female democrat party candidate. They will exact an unjust punishment by authority of their vote, upon all the men and women like me, who speak out in favor of virtue and tried to warn them. Such ignorance though, will bring pain upon themselves if their votes account for her win. They will try and undermine moral integrity by any desperate means during this campaign through to its very end. They already try to deceive and be tricksters. For some of them, they may be unshakable in talking sense to. For these persons who vote on that premise of rebelling against virtue, it might be too late to speak to them. For us hoping to convert them, it may be naive. Though, when we hear rumors of 30% voters polled, saying that this group does not wish to vote for either Democrat or Republican nominee this election 2016, be very careful not to believe the lie that seeks to disenfranchise the very voting-block percentage that opposes evil and carries decision. I’m talking about us, the Christians. Let not those who speak of uniting, create the delusion that evil and good can every be united to begin with.
