| How I feel about the vote.
It’s not about wanting a Republican or Democrat in control.
It’s about needing God in control of what’s happening.
I understand now what my mother taught me about the world at large.
We are one generation from God-less-ness. This is proving to be that generation.
( Remember the old saying Cleanliness is close to Godliness.)
When such a large number of people are willing to lay aside their own beliefs due to their mal content with one man, a human being, they’ve misplaced the value of what their vote can be. People shouldn’t base their vote on popularity, likeability, or immediate circumstances. “People will always let you down, God won’t”.
He remains faithful and true, Patient, but Just. (II Peter 3:9-10)
Little by little, my world has become more and more toxic with the “I, Me, My” entitlement attitude. Pardon me, but if we’re reading the same Good Book, where’d all blessings come from in the first place. They are resources and need to be used as such.
The America my forefathers founded has been diluted to the point where I see such a HUGE part of the current population taking part in no religion at all. Aimlessness. Those first Americans wanted freedom from religious persecution and here some of us sit a short 232 years later being persecuted again because that “God” isn’t politically correct.
What generation let go?
I look at the Blues and Reds of the map and can’t help but notice I’m squished in the middle. I’ve never wanted to leave this Great Country of ours, but it’s beginning to feel less and less like the old values of wholesomeness that made it so great. New isn’t always better, it’s just different, and different doesn’t make it right.
I waited a longer time than most to come on this elections board to start posting after it opened to speak my beliefs. I wanted to have a clear purpose of sharing and not bickering just to let off steam. Thanks for letting me share. My Mycoupons Homepage has some of the reasons I am voting the way I will.
My heart really does break for a country so torn apart by sin and anger.
That one generation of difference or indifference as it could be looked upon, seems to be now.
Barack Obama's religious background is more diverse than that of most prominent politicians, but it may prove to be representative of future generations of Americans who grow up in an increasingly diverse America. His mother was raised by non-practicing Christians; his father was raised a Muslim but was an atheist by the time he had married Obama's mother. Obama's step-father was also Muslim, but of an eclectic kind who could make room for animist and Hindu beliefs. Neither Obama nor his mother were ever atheists, but she raised him in a relatively secular household where he learned about religion.
In his book The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama writes:
" I was not raised in a religious household. For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness. However, in her mind, a working knowledge of the world's great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology.
On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. In sum, my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well.” end quote.
God doesn’t long for “suitable detachment.”
Ask him what He does want before you vote.
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Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28
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