Posted on 11/06/2008 5:58:46 AM PST by NYer
James Dobson may be the only Evangelical whose Sunday school teacher apparently never warned him to be careful what he prayed for. Two weeks before Election Day, the Focus on the Family founder chatted with Sarah Palin on his radio show and shared his backup plan for the struggling GOP ticket. He was, Dobson told her, praying for "God's intervention" and that "God's perfect will be done on November the 4th."
Unless Dobson has undergone a dramatic political conversion, it's safe to assume he does not consider Barack Obama's election on Tuesday to be divinely ordained. In June, Dobson delivered a furious broadside against the Democrat, charging that he was "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own world view." And yet in a year in which the economy mattered more than social issues for most voters, Obama's comfortable victory included Democratic gains in every single religious category among the electorate.
John McCain's selection of Palin, a former Pentecostal Christian, as his running mate was supposed to help strengthen his appeal to religious voters. Republican strategists knew that undecided religious voters broke heavily for George W. Bush in the last weeks of the 2004 campaign, and they hoped Palin's candidacy would sway those voters to the GOP again this year. Instead, those late deciders — including white Evangelicals — appear to have split between Obama and McCain.
Nationally, Obama captured 53% of the Catholic vote, a 13-point swing from 2004 and the largest advantage among the group for a Democrat since Bill Clinton. Obama also cut in half the Republican advantage among Protestants. And he made significant gains among regular worship attenders. Voters who attend religious services most frequently are still most likely to cast ballots for Republicans.
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On the contrary, Amy, it very likely is God ordained.
And likely you're not going to like the long term consequences very much.
Exactly.
Or my personal favorite:
Matt 7:21-23
Many will say to Me in that day, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?”
And then I will declare to them, “I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness
My brothers and sisters,
As I tell my children, God will have His way, with you or without you, because of you or in spite of you. The only choice you have in the matter is on which side of that line you stand.
We have been blessed with eleven children, some of whom are special needs. My wife is a home-schooling, stay-at-home Mom. As much of a challenge as that is, and as difficult as it is to make ends meet at times, we thank God every day for our children. I cannot imagine life without them. My tag line sums it up for me.
Thank you for this.
“My prayer was that God would not deliver our country into the hands of Obama and his ilk, but I also prayed that God’s will be done. I also knew what that could potentially mean and I trust Him, even though I have had a hard time dealing with it. This election has gone this way for a reason, for His reasons, and this is our opportunity to shine and show ourselves to be His children.
Nailed it. I have young children so I struggle with knowing the direction we’re now going, but then I settle on: “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.”
I dwell and trust, therefore I rest.”
Amen. I have young kids too and looking at them and then picturing what our future could entail is really what breaks my heart. But I will still trust Him.
Those who profess to be Catholic or Evangelicals and voted for Obama are Catholics and Evangelicals in word only. Knowing Christ and professing Christ are two different things. Anyone who truly knows Jesus Christ could never vote for the principles that this antichrist (Obama) represents.
As a Christian Pastor, I believe God has allowed Obama to be elected President as an instrument of His judgment upon this nation. Obama will now lead this nation into captivity under the judgment of God.
This is based on exit polling, and their definition of "Catholic" is someone who says he's a Catholic.
If you remove (a) Hispanics; and (b) people who don't actually practice Catholicism (== don't attend Mass weekly), McCain won the Catholic vote by close to 10 points.
(And it stinks that it was only 10 points, but it's better than losing it.)
I haven't seen numbers yet for weekly-Mass-attending Catholics, Hispanics included.
This Catholic says: "Reverend, you just nailed it."
for later.
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