There is only one name on this list that could even be twisted and turned in some way to make it seem like the current administration was the lesser of two evils. (No, I won’t reveal who that is, sorry). With the current Prez and admin, that argument simply isn’t going fly against ANY serious Republican, Tea Party, or Constitution Party eventual candidate for Catholics. The current President has an anti-Catholic, anti-Orthodoxy record which is absolutely astounding. It will be very interesting this time when we get down to the wire to hear some of the justifications that a serious Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Mormon, Conservative Christian, Muslim etc. would even try to make in a public forum. There is no valid ammo for this group that will work on a genuine level against any of the major contenders. There simply isn’t.
The rub is that a huge percentage of Catholics are essentially brainwashed by “social justice” over virtually every other doctrine of the Church. a large bunch of Catholics are really secular, being Catholic only by culture or upbringing. Like we speak of cultural Jewish folks who would call themselves Jewish, but have only been to synagogue for weddings and funerals, and perhaps a bar-mitzvah. Unless all Catholics start believing and living their own faith, then the culture will continue to dictate who our leaders are, and they’ll find some sort of disingenuous reason for the culturally hypnotized Catholic to grab onto and make them believe in some way that it’s morally or ethically acceptable to re-elect this administration. It will be laughable to the orthodox believer, but sadly, most will take the poison. At the core, it is because they don’t want to risk a turn toward moral conservatism in this country, which the culture finds abhorrent.
Ah well,
so it begins,
God bless us all, and grant us all the peace of the Lord, Jesus Christ.
That’s why I did the best to unpack it that I could.
How’s that for a topical post?