The duty not to vote

[Mar044]

hey, my mom is polish and my dad is american from minosoda, my mom came to canada etc and was born here, all i have to do is take a hour trip to the u,s consulate to buy a ticket to the race

to be honest though, im not moving anywhere right now, but funny to think i would have 3 citizenship if i did…lol

like i always say, i rather be proven wrong then right, so deep down i hope i’m wrong lol

 

[ZRight]

I think your logic is faulty on both counts. Catholics who live in the world have a responsibility to reform the world and to reshape it with Christian values. Part of this responsibility in a democracy is to vote for the candidate who will do the most good, or the least evil, in accordance with Catholic principles. This election in the U.S. is not about the “lesser of two evils” but about which will do the least evil. There’s no greater evil than murder of the innocent, which one candidate openly supports.

To claim that utter evil will never be allowed by God to hold authority is to ignore history, and to therefore claim that one ought not vote on that account is to tempt God.

The second faulty premise is that only God should reign and therefore voting is in some way usurping His authority might play well with Jehovah’s Witnesses, but we are called to be good stewards of the land we live in.

A vote NOT cast could well be the vote which allows the most evil to triumph, and the sin of omission would be upon the soul who sat out the election.

This country was founded as a constitutional republic not a democracy!

 

[Matilda_Bennett]

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