Is it sinful NOT to vote???

[thewanderer]

Sorry, I was just reiterating the options for those in the please-Lord-neither-of-these-two dilemma. Since the OP’s opinion is that to vote for Obama is to invite the wrath of God, I guess I thought that base was well-covered from the get-go!

Yeah… I was slightly off-topic.

 

[pnewton]

From St. Michael Center:
On Nov 6 Election Day, will Americans vote for king Herod or Christ the King?

You gave me a great idea. I will write in Christ the King for president. I don’t think he is on the ballot.

 

[pnewton]

1. Bishop Thomas John Paprocki from Springfield, Illinois: Voting for Obama jeopardizes the eternal salvation of your own soul:
   rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/27/catholic-bishop-voting-for-obama-jeopardizes-the-eternal-salvation-of-your-own-soul/

I went to the first link because it sounded the kookiest. It is an outright lie, the title that is. The Bishop never made that statement. From the article of what the Bishop really said.

There are many positive and beneficial planks in the Democratic Party Platform, but I am pointing out those that explicitly endorse intrinsic evils,” the bishop explained. “My job is not to tell you for whom you should vote. But I do have a duty to speak out on moral issues. I would be abdicating this duty if I remained silent out of fear of sounding ‘political’ and didn’t say anything about the morality of these issues. People of faith object to these platform positions that promote serious sins.”

“Again, I am not telling you which party or which candidates to vote for or against,” he concluded, “but I am saying that you need to think and pray very carefully about your vote, because a vote for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are intrinsically evil and gravely sinful makes you morally complicit and places the eternal salvation of your own soul in serious jeopardy.”

Lies are the tools of the devil and have no place in Christianity. David Edwards in this article told a flat out lie in his title to this article.

 

[silicasandra]

You gave me a great idea. I will write in Christ the King for president. I don’t think he is on the ballot.

That is a good idea! Even most of the third party candidates on the ballot in my state stand for at least one grave intrinsic evil if not more. I have no problem with voters who vote based on who “stinks less” out of the two parties, and it’s pretty obvious to practicing Catholics who that is this time around (even though they both really, really stink). It’s just not something I can bring myself to do, and even though I’m in a kind-of swing state (it’s leaning Obama but not as much as, say, NY), it’s not going to come down to my vote. Even if I lived in Ohio it wouldn’t come down to my vote. My vote does not matter to the outcome of the presidential election, therefore I will vote my conscience, which says not to vote for candidates that advocate grave intrinsic evil.

I do vote every year, and when I was still registered in a major party I voted every year in the primaries too. I make an effort to learn about all of the candidates in all of the races. My husband works in local government so I have had a chance to see how much the local stuff really matters. Yet these are the elections that (almost) no one participates in. I remember voting for city council reps last year and the difference between several candidates came down to fewer than twenty votes. If you want to vote in an election where your vote will count - do it there! Municipal councils have a ton of say over what goes on in their communities - you might as well make sure it’s someone who is going to represent your views.

 

[InLight247]

A letter from Bishop Jenky regarding Election Day 2012

Citing unprecedented threats to religious liberty and with strong words of warning to Catholic politicians and their electoral supporters who “callously enable the destruction of innocent human life in the womb,” Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, CSC, has called on all practicing Catholics to vote in the coming election.

“Be faithful to Christ and to your Catholic Faith,” said Bishop Jenky in a letter to be read at all weekend Masses on Nov. 3-4, the weekend prior to the Nov. 6 elections. The letter was released to the media on Oct. 18.
Following is the full text of Bishop Jenky’s letter:​

Dear Catholic Believers,

Since the foundation of the American Republic and the adoption of the Bill of Rights, I do not think there has ever been a time more threatening to our religious liberty than the present. Neither the president of the United States nor the current majority of the Federal Senate have been willing to even consider the Catholic community’s grave objections to those HHS mandates that would require all Catholic institutions, exempting only our church buildings, to fund abortion, sterilization, and artificial contraception. This assault upon our religious freedom is simply without precedent in the American political and legal system. Contrary to the guarantees embedded in the First Amendment, the HHS mandates attempt to now narrowly define and thereby drastically limit our traditional religious works. They grossly and intentionally intrude upon the deeply held moral convictions that have always guided our Catholic schools, hospitals, and other apostolic ministries.

Nearly two thousand years ago, after our Savior had been bound, beaten, scourged, mocked, and crowned with thorns, a pagan Roman Procurator displayed Jesus to a hostile crowd by sarcastically declaring: “Behold your King.” The mob roared back: “We have no king but Caesar.” Today, Catholic politicians, bureaucrats, and their electoral supporters who callously enable the destruction of innocent human life in the womb also thereby reject Jesus as their Lord. They are objectively guilty of grave sin. For those who hope for salvation, no political loyalty can ever take precedence over loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ and to his Gospel of Life. God is not mocked, and as the Bible clearly teaches, after this passing instant of life on earth, God’s great mercy in time will give way to God’s perfect judgment in eternity.

I therefore call upon every practicing Catholic in this Diocese to vote. Be faithful to Christ and to your Catholic Faith. May God guide and protect His Holy Church, and may God bless America.

Most Reverend Daniel R. Jenky, CSC
Catholic Bishop of Peoria

thecatholicpost.com/post/…e.aspx?ID=2656

 

[InLight247]

CatholicVote’s Prayer for America video:
catholicvote.org/prayer

 

[InLight247]

In his 30+ years as a Pastor, Dr. David Jeremiah has never talked about election, but he could not keep silent this time.

Some said they won’t vote for either candidate to protect their holiness. Failing to show compassion of voting is morally lazy. Not taking a position on election is sinful.

Pastor Jeremiah teamed with Billy Graham and raised 3.8 million dollars to put Graham’s advertisement on major newspapers across the nation urging people to vote for Christian value. If you watch this sermon, you will know for sure that Dr. Billy Graham and Dr. David Jeremiah are both urging everyone to vote for Romney.
westernjournalism.com/pastor-david-jeremiahs-important-sermon-on-the-presidential-election/

God will bless or curse a nation according to the course Christians take on politics.

Pastor David Jeremiah’s Important Sermon On The Presidential Election:
westernjournalism.com/pastor-david-jeremiahs-important-sermon-on-the-presidential-election/