A sad day for America...

[olde_fashioned]

While it seems the majority of the country is rejoicing our new president-elect, I cannot help but be saddened at the direction this country is taking. I am saddened that we have just elected an untried and inexperienced man and given him the reins of this country. I am saddened that we as a nation have allowed the politicians and the liberal media to effectively pull the wool over our eyes and project another flawed human being as a god-like figure. I am saddened that we have just elected a president who will sign into law the Freedom of Choice Act which will effectively sign the death warrants of an untold multitude of unborn children. I'm saddened that we have sent the most radical, the most liberal, and potentially the most anti-American person we've ever had run for president to the highest office in the land to take power in January. I am saddened that our politics have degraded and deteriorated to the point that I couldn't even find a decent Biblically-qualified Republican candidate to vote for without compromising half my values.

And most of all? I am saddened that most people are rejoicing at all of this.

Part of me feels like crying. :-(

Pray, people. Even if you don't live here, pray for America, pray for not only our country, but all those around the world that will be affected by our policies and our actions, pray that our enemies aren't tempted to test a new and inexperienced president, pray that none of our rights (especially our first and second ammendment rights) aren't trampled on or even eliminated, and pray that whatever wheels Obama sets into motion that they won't permanantly damage this country or the world. God is still in control no matter if the Democrats or the Republicans are in office, and He can still use people, even the likes of Obama.

"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding."
~ Proverbs 3:5

What man intends for evil God often turns around and uses for good, so let's pray that this is another example. I don't understand why God let this happen, but He knows much better than me or anyone else, and if He can create all of the universe and everything in it, I think He can be trusted with an election.

The whole campaign everyone talked about Obama being an "inspiration" and about his bringing "new hope" to America in trouble times. Well guess what? Obama is only a man, a flawed, finite, tiny human being, and that's nothing, absolutely nothing compared to what God is. I don't trust polticians, I trust God. I don't put my hope in Obama, I put my hope in God.

"...put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore."
~ Psalm 131:2-3

Obama promises hope and change, but God doesn't change. Politicians come and go, "but the word of our God stands forever." (Isaiah 40:8b)

So take that, Obama!

Comments

[noctia.livejournal.com]

I did not want to offend anyone, but as a defensor of Democracy, and considering that your multi-cultural country houses many more religions, creeds and faiths than mine, I cannot believe that freedom of choice is still at stake at this day and age. I am an Historian and never in my academic life I have encountered such unfounded uncertainty. Who have been the agents that have demonized Barack Obama? Give the guy a chance and do not fear for your own faith, which I totally respect, so the least one can do is to give other faiths, races and beliefs a change to prove their point. Abortion is NOT a crime, as the so-called "baby", foetus whatever, has no juridical personality. It might go against your religious views, but you cannot forbid other people from aborting.
And I truly hope that his middle name is not scarying people off...
Once again, I apologise if my plural points of view have shocked or offended you.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Unfounded uncertainly? What is it that you regard as unfounded?

Who said anything about demonizing? The facts are fact, and I don't like them. It's a fact that he's going to allow and re-establish things in this country which are morally wrong, and nothing short of murder.

The "so called baby"?? That's a pretty callous way to refer to the state that you yourself once were. I think it is only a symptom of the dire depths that this world has sunk to that a tiny, helpless being is denied the privileges and rights given to chickens and cats, not to mention not even being considered a human being until it's deemed politically expedient.

Abortion is NOT a crime

Who died and appointed you judge as well as "defensor"? Why does your personal view that abortion is not a crime get to be any more "correct" than my view that abortion is murder?

[noctia.livejournal.com]

If I didn't consider my views to be correct then I wouldn't be defending them. My views allow other people to chose as they like, and this is what this debate is all about. What is imoral to your eyes is perfectly normal to mine. I do have principles, like freedom of speech, choice and to free health care, that I consider absolutely fundamental, but I do not force other people to think that way.
"Who said anything about demonizing? The facts are fact, and I don't like them."

If only you knew how much the rest of the world has wished for this day to happen... Right now, we applaude the US citizens for voting Obama. Citizens across Europe have rejoiced with the possibility of ending unfair and life-wasting wars, the possibility of lifting Cuba's embargo. There is a lot at stake, and as for abortion, I can cite many examples of how unfairily many Christians, not all, have handled the issue. I was once a baby yes, by my parents' choice who should have the right at anytime before the foetus becomes a human being to stop the process. Parents should only be so if they can raise a child with responsibility and love. I do not believe in God, or Christ as the son of God, and my views have to be equally respected for believeing that abortion is not a crime. I do not have your apocaliptic view (if I am allowed to call it so) of the world (or maybe that's just the fact that you did not want the Democrats to win the election as I am sure you'll feel a bit better in a few days), I don't think there will be a Judgment Day, but I am concerned about what we are doing to the world in an environmental perspective. For me, that's more of a priority because first and foremost the world is in a greater risk than laws allowing abortion. And I am going to be perfectly honest with you and running the risk of ignoring my views as an historian - I wish there were no religions in the world. They have caused so much pain, grief and destruction, greater than the little comfort it gives people with questioning their so feared mortality. I do not wish to impose my views to anyone. Maybe, and subliminally, we are equally "influenced" by the media in different ways. Again, I apologise if I have been offensive.