Scales are Beginning to Fall From Some Eyes

Professor Bainbridge is rightly lamenting the tragic betrayal of the Bush administration and the GOP to conservative causes due to this immoral and unjust war in Iraq. What he fails to see is that this betrayal is in the cards of political power no matter what your political persuasion. Add your pet political cause to the phrase "if only x is in power then society will be better off." Too much hope is placed in the fallibility of men and not enough in God. There is only one scenario of "X" that power is properly handled and very few are truly willing to give due loyalty to it. That is the xpistos (Christos).

I'm willing to bet more Catholic Americans ("conservatives" included) truly believe in the Federal Government as savior than they believe in the real presence of Jesus Christ. There is only hope for our Catholic causes (contra abortion, euthanasia, & the culture of death)  if and only if we anchor ourselves in Christ.   Does this mean we Catholics should be trying to get Catholics elected to a masonic piece of political machinery? No, it means that we must evangelize the culture, inviting all to serve under the gentle and majestic Empire of Christ. The dictum is not, first seek political power for Catholics, then all else will be given to us. Rather as Christ teaches, "But first seek the kingdom o[of God] and its righteousness, and all else will be given you besides." Do we American conservative Catholics truly believe Christ in MAT 6:33, or do we just pay it lip service in Mass, Christ's great courtroom, on Sunday?

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I would not give up on the vote just yet - I voted for Michael Peroutka of the Constitution party in 2004 and explained the problems with the Dems and GOP. We are not called to use Caesar to fix the world, yet we are called to do civil duties and act responsibly.

The larger problem is that we are told to vote for the conservative, then get dozens of excuses as to why they can't fix anything. On my blog I wrote a long missive on just war theory applied to abortion - mainly to show that if you cannot justify violent action against this holocaust, you cannot justify it for any lesser thing, and even 9/11 and Iraq don't come close. Bush could have saved Terri Schiavo. He could defund Planned Parenthood today.

Or as I (with probably too much vitriol) chide my republican church members "Behold the lesser evil".

I don't know how this will be resolved. The previous national sin, slavery, was resolved in a very ugly manner. I simply have to stay informed and ready.