To illustrate just how important the Democrats were to Catholics, she relates the question she asked a Catholic friend: “If Jesus were running as a Republican and Satan as a Democrat, whom would you vote for?”
“My friend hesitated a bit and said, ‘I suppose I would have to vote for Satan,’ ” she said.
In my lifetime I have seen the scary trend of people becoming more passionate about politics than even their own religion. Their own religion. Today we get a perfect case in point from Charles Lewis:
The two women talk about the race between John McCain and Barack Obama, and how the issue of abortion is playing into it. Both look strained when they discuss how they might vote. The issue runs so deep Ms. Conway believes voting for a pro-abortion candidate like Mr. Obama — something she might reluctantly do because she wants to end the war in Iraq — is likely an offence against God.
“If I do end up voting for Obama, then I’ll go to confession after and tell the priest my sin,” she said.
Note the fact that she is admitting that voting against the War in Iraq is not an offence against God (although — as someone might explain to her — sinning and then going to confession when you aren’t truly sorry for it is a worse offence against God than the sin, itself, and is in fact a sacrilege). It is quite phenomenal, and not in a good sense, that we can be so divided over our thoughts and beliefs about making our country better, that we are willing to go to hell in order to get our way. It is something that secular society promotes by eliminating God from all of our decisions so that they and we, alike, can consider ourselves a god over something. For when the Christian voter votes according to their religious beliefs — the first filter in a series of filters through which we ought to be looking through to make all of our decisions, political and otherwise — they are deferring to God’s will instead of their own, and God’s will is something that the media have no control over.
The same can be said for the Christian voter who votes according to party lines (or union lines) in each election. Republican, Democrat, or independent/3rd party, it doesn’t matter — not all candidates in either party are created equal, and none of us — even Pope Benedict — is perfect. No matter who we vote for, we are voting for an imperfect human being. Yet, when some people are going to the polls they will only look for the letter in parenthesis next to a candidates name, rather than exploring what they stand for through the filters of religion, life issues, and family.
Think about this the next time you go to the polls. If you are generous, think about the most defenseless group among us; think about the unborn. If you are selfish, think about your own salvation.
As for the Bishop’s letter and the influence of the Church in this election year, she considers it best to just ignore it.
“It’s Catholic guilt conscience. And Catholic guilt conscience is a terrible thing.”
It is indeed a terrible, terrible inconvenience when you are so busy worrying about yourself.
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