The networks are now calling Ohio for Obama. That is all she wrote folks.
I have a number of mixed feelings right now. Disappointment for sure, but more than that. Profound sadness. Not for any political reasons. If America wants to play with socialism, let it. Of course I think that is simply wrongheaded, but we will survive. Confiscatory tax rates likely won’t kill anyone or prevent anyone from reaching eternal salvation. In fact, maybe the opposite. When things are taken away from us, even at the point of an IRS gun, we usually learn that it didn’t have as much value as we thought. America can survive its first Socialist President, even with a socialist congress.
My profound sadness stems not from the likely confiscatory loss of property and not even from our likely loss of individual freedoms which we cherish. No, my sadness stems from the loss of the innocents. Obama has promised that the first thing he will sign is the Freedom of Choice Act. FOCA will roll back many of the reasonable restrictions that have led to lower abortion rates. Obama may appoint 1, 2, or even 3 Justices to the Supreme Court prolonging the mandate of abortion on demand by Judicial fiat for a generation or more.
I am sad for the babies. More babies who will die because America didn’t care. They cared more about cheap healthcare and a better economy than innocent lives. Problem is, they won’t get that for which they callously traded those innocent lives either.
Besides sadness, disappointment, and yes a little anger, I feel resignation. I am resigned that horrors of this magnitude will not be tolerated by a just God forever. This world belongs to God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – not to the culture of death, not to Barack Obama and the Democrats, not to Satan and all his minions. I am not equating Obama and the Dems with Satan, but they certainly are his useful idiots.
At the end of the day, this is in God’s hands. We must always pray and work toward a just world where innocent life is not sacrificed at the altar of convenience and where loving one another as He has loved us is the rule and not the exception. But how we get there is in God’s hands.
I know that all I have said about FOCA and the Supreme Court is true if history continues on its current path. But God is in charge of history. Not Obama, not the Dems, not me, and not you. God. My faith is in you Lord. We pray that our nation is spared the horrible effects of the choices we have made. We pray, if it is your will, that we turn from the path we have chosen and repent. We pray for that repentance so that we may be spared your righteous anger. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
November 5, 2008 at 3:06 am
Thank you for words of encouragement. I feel a lot better after reading your blog. The truth will prevail! God bless!
November 5, 2008 at 3:16 am
http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/
pics/geo200/religion/catholic.gif
Here is a link to a map of Catholics by percentage of all residents. Lay this over the electoral college map. We must pray for the Church in America!
I also am most sad for the innocent children that we be slaughtered due to this “Change”.
November 5, 2008 at 3:28 am
Amen, and God help us.
November 5, 2008 at 3:33 am
Sad, but true, I fear. I can live with a little less money, live on simpler fare, and live with restrictions on some freedoms. I won;t want to, but if that be God’s will, to strengthen and deepen a spirit of detachment, then His will be done. So we will have to tighten our belts, keep our faces washed and pray pray pray.
And I wholeheartedly agree – the unborn will suffer more, and as a result, our nation will too. God’s patience is incredible – but for how much longer?
And as an aside – I can totally shocked about the spread in PA. As I write this, BHO has a 17 point lead, with 67% reporting. I guess Seanmaelstrom had it wrong??
November 5, 2008 at 4:04 am
Please, folks, let’s not fall upon our swords quite yet. I went to bed in 2004thinking about a President Kerry; and in 2000 about a President Gore. Just wait a bit longer before you unsheath the blades.
Moreover, we are Christians whose legacy of living under tyranny is epic. Surely, if we have survived such abominations as Nero, Diocletian, Elizabeth I, Hitler and Stalin, we can live through the pyrrhic victory of a skinny, dippy huckster and snake oil salesman from Hyde Park in Chicago.
Leftists like Obama are terrible in governing; if he wins along with the rest of the Party of Mordor, they all inherit a horrible economic mess for. which they are primary responsible.
And maybe as Catholics, we needed a wake-up call to get us out from under the cushy post-VC II world of Haugen-Haas-Joncas-Chittister, ad nauseum.
It may be time, folks, to pick up our crosses…and go follow Him, not him.
November 5, 2008 at 4:05 am
Shocking. And if the trends continue, ironically, it is African American babies who will bear a proportionately huge brunt of an Obama presidency.
Time to pray. My hope is that this will energize the pro-life movement as never before.
November 5, 2008 at 4:19 am
Patrick, I understand your sentiments and agree with them all, except one: Our Lord said very clearly 3 times in the gospel of John that it is indeed Satan who is the “prince of this world”. In the fallen state we (humans) are in, it is he who reigns. A sad fact, but no more poignant than what we see here.
On another note, I will say this: there are some bright sides here. This may prompt the Republican party to stop taking us for granted. This may inspire minorities and underpriveleged children around America that anything is now possible, instead of simply the immediate gratification they are surrounded with. And it may force us as Catholics to reexamine where our loyalties lie, or rather should lie moving forward.
Anyway, if we were around each other right now, I would absolutely join with you and everyone here in a commiseratory beer or coffee. But for now, life goes on, and we give to Caesar what is Caesar’s while trying to walk the narrow path.
November 5, 2008 at 4:28 am
Now is the time for us all to remember that we are not a silent minority. We must continue to advocate for the unborn, the elderly, and everyone who is a child of God. I’ve watched entire Navy bases turn upside down because a mom wrote her Congressman that her son hadn’t written a letter for months. Congressman writes Navy base, chain of command is invoked, son writes letter to Mom.
If Representatives respond to issues like these (important, for sure – how’d you like to be that mom?), they will respond to us as well. It’s time to open the floodgates and storm Congress. We must advocate for the least among us, because they will be first in Heaven.
November 5, 2008 at 4:35 am
We are in the crucible folks. Searing heat will be applied, but it is necessary for the impurities to be burned away. Don’t lose heart. The Church will come through this even stronger.
The slavery abolitionists faced hard and difficult obstacles, but they eventually won out…because they never gave up.
November 5, 2008 at 4:41 am
I think that what has disturbed me the most about Mr. Obama is the fact of his “star quality” for lack of a better word. That is the last thing I want in a politician at any level, least of all President of the United States. The phrase “Prince of This World” is ringing in my ears. Why don’t people understand and fear this as they fall down in adoration before this golden calf? Kyrie Eleison. Kit.
November 5, 2008 at 5:05 am
Time to pray. My hope is that this will energize the pro-life movement as never before.
I’m ready like never before. Let’s talk strategy.
November 5, 2008 at 5:23 am
We really need to challenge the notion that people who were born into Catholic families but who do not practice the faith are Catholics. They are lapsed Catholics at best. If you remove these folks from the tallies, the number of ‘Catholics for Obama’ decreases substantially. Count out the practicing Catholics who never heard about the Church’s uncompromising pro-life position from their bishop or pastor and the number is much smaller indeed.
November 5, 2008 at 5:35 am
Wow, a lot of posts got deleted very quickly on here. Something about Waterloo and why McCain is going to win… What happened? If you are going to stick your neck out to claim that McCain is still in this thing, at least be man enough to keep the posts up after you have been proven wrong.
A sad day for our country. Pray for the conversion of Barack Obama.
~cmpt
November 5, 2008 at 6:23 am
“A sad day for our country. Pray for the conversion of Barack Obama.”
Open his eyes, O Lord, or shut them forever.
November 5, 2008 at 7:18 am
Shocked and amazed. America has just voted in it’s own chastisement.
November 5, 2008 at 7:38 am
I recall Obamania rallies that easily remind one of the Nuremburg rallies. The cult of personality surrounding your next president is scary. A great people has elected a sworn enemy of the unborn, and many Catholics have been duped to vote for the culture of death. Can you say a major purification is just around the bend? The Church will prevail, but will a nation? History shows that no country is immune to corruption and decay. The mightiest of empires have fallen and are now nothing but mere memories. Folks, the barbarians are not only within your gates – you just elected Attila the Hun and his side kick for president.
November 5, 2008 at 8:04 am
Keep up the good work, we also have had our troubles, we in South Africa face daunting tasks, and horrid effects, at least your media, while liberal is not largely in control of whoever controls your government. We also have our liberal media, and secular newspapers though… And our own situation is still better in some ways- but I can assure you that even when the culture of abortion, socialist ideas, and ideologies like such can fill all the sky- still there is your hope in the eternal crown, hold it, hold it tight, and rejoice- your soul is yours, and we love your blog, even with the sometimes angry comments, and hilarious comparisons. Keep your good task til the night comes to day!
November 5, 2008 at 8:26 am
You people are sad. I have never been more apalled by the crass conceit of so-called christians, travelling your faux moral high road while skirting the many other issues that plague this country in these times.. oh, the many problems facing this country right now that this new president can make considerable progress toward solving and all you people sit here and do is cry, ‘oh no, the babies’…..
how about condemning the fools who instead of controlling their compulsive urges to engage in pre-marital and unprotected sex, decide to engorge themselves on this sin and use abortion as a means to avert earthly consequence for their torrid actions?
and to the claim of electing a “socialist” president? please. even if his policies touch the walls of socialism, they do so for the good of the common citizen. besides, adopting policies with roots in socialism is nothing new to America. have you ever heard of social security? socialist program. welfare? same. medicare? the free education system? all programs with a base in socialism. and it doesn’t stop there. plenty other things you don’t even think about in this democracy are adopted from other forms of government. but, well, what do you expect from a country whose citizens are descendant of people from all parts of the world?
socialism isn’t suddenly bad for democracy. it was merely a buzzword the McCain campaign used, unsuccessfully, to keep the American public scared of an Obama presidency. and I fell sorry for those of you who ignorantly bit hard on the concept instead of doing your research and being able to see through the bullcrap and into the truth.
November 5, 2008 at 8:29 am
and yes, I am aware I used poor syntax in my post, it is 3:30 am and I have other worries more important.
November 5, 2008 at 9:14 am
Thomas,
We know he’s a liar. We know he promotes murder. These facts allow us to see through the fancy rhetoric into the truth. He was a liar and a murderer from the begining.