America is in clear and present danger. President Trump has repeatedly shown himself to be severely and dangerously unqualified to be president. He is dangerous even to the point of flirting with nuclear war. He has put not only America but the whole world in danger.
At a moment in history that calls for profiles in courage, most of the majority Republican legislators are showing themselves to be political and spiritual cowards who are doing nothing but thinking of their own reelection. Thanks to gerrymandering they will be reelected and then continue to do nothing because they have nothing positive to offer the American people. The minority Democrats are simply ignored.
There is no political solution presently available to save us from possibly destroying our country and maybe even the world.
There could be a spiritual solution. A majority of Americans who identify themselves as Christians can speak up with one voice and denounce the obscene insanity that is now afflicting us and fight for justice, peace and love for all Americans and for the world. What are the chances of this happening? Right now, little to none.
Many politically active Republican Christians attend meetings and rallies where they loudly proclaim that Donald Trump is "Making America Great Again!" They are mostly White and their idea of making America great again means regaining the political and cultural power that they say has been unjustly taken from them by African Americans, Hispanic immigrants and homosexuals. To these Christians, a great America is a White, heterosexual America. Many arm themselves and say they are ready to fight a shooting war against any form of government they oppose. There is a terrible shortage of Christianity here.
Many Catholics, laity, clergy and bishops, voted for Trump to ensure that there would be a Supreme Court judge who would vote to revoke Roe vs. Wade and make abortion illegal. Unable to prevent their fellow Catholics from having abortions, they voted to do politically what they cannot do spiritually.
Today, our culture is marked by a cult of individuality in which others are seen as competitors or even enemies. Our Catholic faith should move us to oppose disunity and reach out to all people as our beloved brothers and sisters, without exception. Christians are supposed to humanize our politics and make them work for people of all faiths and of no faith. But too many Christians let politics dehumanize them and distort their faith.
Needy children will now get less food. Millions of Americans will now lose their Health Care. Our society is becoming more crude and debased. And we are flirting with the obscenity of nuclear war. The Ten Commandments are lost and the Beatitudes are out of sight.
There is a shortage of Christianity in America today. But it doesn't have to be so. Will enough Christians learn to rise up and start working to correct their terrible error of spiritual discernment and judgment and start working hard to put America back on the right path of justice, peace and love for all? An anxious world awaits the answer.
At a moment in history that calls for profiles in courage, most of the majority Republican legislators are showing themselves to be political and spiritual cowards who are doing nothing but thinking of their own reelection. Thanks to gerrymandering they will be reelected and then continue to do nothing because they have nothing positive to offer the American people. The minority Democrats are simply ignored.
There is no political solution presently available to save us from possibly destroying our country and maybe even the world.
There could be a spiritual solution. A majority of Americans who identify themselves as Christians can speak up with one voice and denounce the obscene insanity that is now afflicting us and fight for justice, peace and love for all Americans and for the world. What are the chances of this happening? Right now, little to none.
Many politically active Republican Christians attend meetings and rallies where they loudly proclaim that Donald Trump is "Making America Great Again!" They are mostly White and their idea of making America great again means regaining the political and cultural power that they say has been unjustly taken from them by African Americans, Hispanic immigrants and homosexuals. To these Christians, a great America is a White, heterosexual America. Many arm themselves and say they are ready to fight a shooting war against any form of government they oppose. There is a terrible shortage of Christianity here.
Many Catholics, laity, clergy and bishops, voted for Trump to ensure that there would be a Supreme Court judge who would vote to revoke Roe vs. Wade and make abortion illegal. Unable to prevent their fellow Catholics from having abortions, they voted to do politically what they cannot do spiritually.
Today, our culture is marked by a cult of individuality in which others are seen as competitors or even enemies. Our Catholic faith should move us to oppose disunity and reach out to all people as our beloved brothers and sisters, without exception. Christians are supposed to humanize our politics and make them work for people of all faiths and of no faith. But too many Christians let politics dehumanize them and distort their faith.
Needy children will now get less food. Millions of Americans will now lose their Health Care. Our society is becoming more crude and debased. And we are flirting with the obscenity of nuclear war. The Ten Commandments are lost and the Beatitudes are out of sight.
There is a shortage of Christianity in America today. But it doesn't have to be so. Will enough Christians learn to rise up and start working to correct their terrible error of spiritual discernment and judgment and start working hard to put America back on the right path of justice, peace and love for all? An anxious world awaits the answer.
