A Short Response to Modern Times

I've written half a dozen drafts since this morning, and none seem to hit the mark.

This time it's on voting, the church's lack of ownership for the moral decline of our nation, the over-romanticizing of a heroic salvation of the nation by one mortal being, and the need for ideological transformation.

But since I'm majorly jet-lagged right now, I'm refraining 🙃

Here's all I'm going to say:

No one person is meant to be the savior of a nation, other than Jesus Christ of course, and no one person should be worshipped or held in such a regard, again except Christ.

No one person will ever be perfect and champion a single issue exactly as single-issue voters would want them to.

Government is meant ONLY to ever PROTECT the rights of those WHO ARE CITIZENS of that nation.

When the government imposes regulations and restrictions on rights, even, and especially in an attempt to “protect” other rights, it is wrong in doing so.

It is not the government that is meant to champion morality and religion, but rather the individuals of that nation, namely the Church.

Any attempt to cast responsibility and blame onto the government for the decline of morality is simply a copout for neglecting the duty and responsibility of the Church.

The notion that all things can be righted in a single 4-year presidency is a hyper-romanticizing and incredibly ignorant idea that leads only in a continued cycle of defeat (which surely we're tired of, right?).

The long game is the only game in which you win when it comes to ideological and philosophical changes, which then result in consistent and sustainable economic changes.

Ignorance doesn’t negate truth, it simply hides it for a time.

And with that, I leave you with the shortest email I've now written and say goodnight.