Posted on 11/07/2012 6:07:12 AM PST by marshmallow
Guys – have a quick puff of your joint before heading down the aisle with your boyfriend. In addition to re-electing Obama, various American states voted to legalise dope and gay marriage. OK, so they weren't necessarily the same states, but you get the picture. Last night was a victory for secular liberal America – or, to put it another way, America's emerging secular liberal majority. The United States is still pious by European standards, but the gap is narrowing every year.
You cannot visit American bookshops without being struck by the popularity of atheist cheerleaders or agnostic self-help gurus; when I meet a young New Yorker or Californian I assume – as I would in Britain – that they don't go to church, have liberal positions on abortion and homosexuality and generally despise the conservative religious activism that, until so recently, had the power to elect presidents.
Two points worth noting about this election. First, the Religious Right – and how dated that phrase already sounds – united around a candidate who, by most standards, is not even a Christian.
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I agree completely. The party that booed God at its convention has just won a second term. We can’t deny it any further. We live in a post-Christian society.
No. We are no longer in a society that thinks religion belongs in politics and the government. There’s a difference, as troubling as that might be to some.
Candidates that tried to put rape in some sort of divine context lost.
Look for the Catholic Church now to have its Emily Litella moment and go crawling back into the shadows in meek acceptance of the mandate. They will acquiesce to indirect funding of abortions, just as they have in Europe for over three decades.
Not once did I hear from any Catholic pulpit the appeal that it was our moral duty to vote against Obama. The “voter guides” we got on Sunday before the election were a muddy, muddled mess. Abortion, “social justice”, “immigration reform”...could not make heads or tails out of it.
I don't think it's been determined that even that happened.
I believe we’re in the end times. Jesus Christ, come back soon! The good news for his believers is in the end, we win!
Europe is just beginning to reap the joyful benefits of its deliberate detachment from God and Judeo-Christian principles.
When the collapse occurs, which will most likely occur within the next four years, and leads us into a global depression that makes the 1930’s look like the Roarin’ Twenties and eventually plunges us into another world war,
THEY and WE will go running back to God like children who were lost in a crowd when they finally find their father.
Don’t forget, we can still AFFORD to be prideful, atheistic humanists. Very soon, we will not be able to afford that luxury. And then all we will have left is the consent from government to behave as decadently as we want.
When the church becomes a social club and stops standing for anything, what do you expect? I drive by the smae church everyday with a rainbow flag outside that says: “God is still speaking.” I agree, but somehow I am hearing somethign different then they are. There will be a reckoning in the church, we have been lazy for too long.
This election is disapointing, but I also find myself inspired and more committed than ever to do the right thing, cling to Biblical principles, and keep the true Gospel within my heart and mind. I will choose candidates that have my values, win or lose.
No ad about the democrats booing God at their convention
No ad about Obama denying protection to babies that survive abortion attempt
No ad showing Obama supporting homosexual marriage which even in liberal Maryland was rejected by nearly 50% of the state.
Just total focus on jobs and spending...and what did it get us? Less votes than McCain got.
So now the answer is to further diminish the demoralize the base by reaching out to illegals, homosexuals, and drug advocates? LOL
Good luck with that.
God sees all and still reigns supreme. When the eternal Book is opened will your name be written in it for believing and standing on His Word no matter the opposition? This world is not our eternal home but people voted for either ungodliness or righteousness.
Exactly. The problem is that extreme social conservatives dominate the GOP primary process, but are badly outnumbered in general elections.
Even those who self-identify as judeo-christian (e.g. cultural catholics, jews) are scared of social conservatives. Akin and others were just useful idiots used to reinforce these fears.
True. This is because they've pretty much all gone out of business.
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As Dennis Prager says, there are two parties - the Dangerous Party and the Stupid Party.
We sat watching the ‘Pubbie’s Colorado campaign ads in disbelief...
“And I believe that the many folks in the GOP who believe in nonsense like this has turned away a great many rational conservatives over the last 20 years.”
Like who?
Name three that won the GOP Primary for President since 1980.
Dole, Bush, Bush, McCain, and Romney are not true conservatives.
I agree, so true...
Don't hold your breath.
If the so called “Religion Cons” could not bother to show up in 2008 or 2012 - you know what?
F THEM ALL.
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