My nephew asked my husband who is an ordained minister why Obama won, "because almost half of America voted for Mitt Romney." A member of a very dangerous cult where Almighty God does not hear their prayers.
I struggled with my vote as I fear for my country so much, but God is who we need to govern our lives not a man. I voted my conscience and my heart in a very blue state, I wrote in Ron Paul.
The vitriol is also against those who voted for someone else other than the candidate that was on the ballot, as well as those who stayed home (even though one doesn’t know how they would have voted).
I do not share in the vitriol, all of us registered voters have a right to our vote, guaranteed (supposedly) by our Constitution. However, as a Christian, I would not vote for a man who hates the Jewish people and believes marajuana should be legalized, i.e., Ron Paul. If he had been the only other candidate on the ballot, running against Obama—my, my, what a dilemma, even worse than this
one with Romney & Obama—I would really struggle with whether to vote for the lesser of the two evils (which one?)
or not vote at all.
Never thought about it quite like that, but I can't say I disagree. Whether the election was stolen (which it may well have been), or whether the Republican machine is less efficient, or whether we really are losing the right/left tug of war, in any of these things, we had our only true chance to overcome them if we also had God's blessing.
I understand how fear and panic drive a wedge between us and God, between us and our duty to do the right thing. I only wish it hadn't happened on my watch.
Not to say God will never bless us again. But I do not see how it can happen now, until and unless there is a moment of national repentance unlike anything this nation has ever seen. Our sin is great and our repentance must rise to meet it, a tsunami of sorrow before God, rising from the broken hearts of the people of God. May God grant us that repentance.
Peace,
SR