Politics and Religion
I haven’t posted to this blog since 2012 – right before the last U.S. presidential election, in fact. That is not a coincidence. In the days and weeks leading up to the election I prayed feverishly that voters would elect candidates who would lead the nation in a way that was more in-line with Catholic Christian doctrine. I didn’t single out specific candidates in my prayers – there was no “please let this guy win, and make that guy lose.” I simply implored God to inspire American voters to take the steps necessary to stop the downward spiral of morality in our nation. It didn’t happen. In the weeks following the disastrous 2012 election I was genuinely depressed. I specifically recall telling a friend that, for the first time in my life, I did not feel God’s presence. Three years after muttering those words I realize now just how foolish they were. The absence of God’s presence is the literal definition of Hell. Was I expe...