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To: redgolum
Dear redgolum,

I'm not sure whether you mean to agree with what you quoted, or whether you posted in contradistinction to what I said.

In either case, we are in agreement.

We must wait on God. He will do what He will do. Perhaps He will call our nation to repentance and so renew us. Perhaps He won't.

As followers of the Lord, all we can do is wait and pray. Obviously, we can and must continue to practice corporal and spiritual works of mercy, to do our best to mitigate the personal suffering that will come. We must continue to try to live justly, and to ask God for the grace of personal repentance and continual conversion, so that we better reflect him in our lives. To the degree that we any longer have any political influence (and we will have significant residual influence for some years to come), we can use that to perhaps smooth some of the sharper edges of the new regime to alleviate human suffering.

But your point is my point. We aren't going to fix this mess. It is beyond our abilities. It is beyond the natural order.


sitetest

55 posted on 11/09/2012 6:56:36 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest; SumProVita

And to that ST, I agree.

Let God use us to save who we can. Help who we can. And realize that we can not save them all. We can’t. God may, but we can’t.

Increasingly, we Christians are the outsiders. I have read history. I know what comes next. No matter what they say in Disney movies, dissent is not tolerated by the State. There will be a crack down.

And despite what most Christians in the US believe, I fear it will be very successful. Most are half apostate anyway. Most priests, pastors, leaders, etc are more afraid of being “mean” than being Good.

I fear for my child and my Godchildren. I don’t fear for myself.


62 posted on 11/09/2012 11:43:09 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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