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Kguy's avatar

What if you do not vote but do not complain either. It is hard to see improvement without repentance. Every prophet God sent in the Bible preached Repentance. Everything Our Savior and Our Lord preaches is Repentance. That is what will save souls and create change. I do not vote but I don't complain. I pray for whoever is "selected". I pray for whoever votes. I speak ill of Noone who values this system we are in. However, God called us to test spirits, follow peace and to Repent and pray, pray, and pray.

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David Wolosik's avatar

Good points Jim. In my experience, the people who don't vote complain the loudest about circumstances. If anyone is confused who to vote for or thinks they don't need to, remind them at the Kamala rally when someone said "Jesus is Lord", she told them they were at the WRONG rally!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cm9HR4qa_w0

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Chris's avatar

I agree with most of what you say here. Yet, at the same time, I struggle to see this bizarre four-year ritual anything more than an intentional effort on the part of hidden-hand black magicians/controllers to rev large groups of ordinary people up, hoping that we inflict (both literal and emotional) violence on one another, while they gleefully sit back and watch. I also struggle greatly with the notion that anyone who is allowed to run for president is not deeply deeply "owned" by these hidden-hand elites. I hope I am wrong. But at this point, things do not make sense to me any other way.

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Marc Miller's avatar

Astute observation with a foundational underpinning on everything said by everyone on this thread so far.

It is clear to me there’s a malevolent force at work throughout human history that cares for nothing other than watching the world burn.

What other possible explanation could there be for all the grief, horror and sadness dished up since the garden rebellion onto the plate of humanity?

Such a tragedy.

But the end of the book reveals there’s victory to be had around the corner.

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Chris's avatar

Amen.

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Journal Pathways's avatar

I've never understood the position of abstaining from voting. As followers of Christ it's insane to think of politics isolated from faith. I would lovingly and highly encourage them to listen to Frank Turek's "God and Politics" on YouTube. The video aptly shows the direct correlation between a country's law and religious freedoms! Which I fear is slowly going down the tube's.

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Michelle's avatar

I agree with you wholeheartedly on a national level. I’m struggling with what to do on a local level, state governor specifically, where the state GOP refused to get behind an actual conservative candidate and instead supported an arrogant, lying RINO who won’t be much different than the lying, cheating, corrupt state AG the RINO is running against for governor. In a state that has perfected the art of stealing elections with all mail-in voting and rampant illegal aliens, dead people, people who have moved, felons, and underage people on the voter rolls... The election will most likely be stolen anyway, do my desire is to write in a candidate... The RINO had been friendly with the LGBTQ community. The only way he can claim to be conservative is that he claims to be strong on crime.

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Intercessor Todd's avatar

I can't understand people who don't vote. All they then do is complain and criticize. Voting, in some ways, is like praying or evangelizing. It allows us to participate in God's activity on Earth. Voting doesn't solve everything, for most of our issues are not political. But not voting is to

let "open the door for every evil ideology to fill the vacuum."

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Rightful Freedom's avatar

The stakes are high. In a way, it's too bad we're not Dems. Then we could vote multiple times.

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Catherine Hazur's avatar

"VOTING" = means doing exactly NOTHING to alter the outcome of averting God's Judgement as you remain glued like a rat in a trap to the sinful status quo thinking you are accomplishing something magnificent and heroic with your "VOTE." The world is not going to help you, including the World Government /sELECTION SYSTEM.

The trajectory is totally undisturbed and the needle stays Stuck Like Chuck.

The only thing that will help now is to repent of your blindness and ask God for His Grace and Mercy to see things as they are

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The Watchman's avatar

Not really a rant, Jim. I would say it's more like great points, which I will be linking today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

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BatTikvah's avatar

This is so well put. I will be sharing it around.

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Jeff Johnson's avatar

"Not voting against something is the same as approving of it." This is the bottom-line truth. The passivity of people is abhorrent in this day and age. It gets back to this: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Christians in particular are mandated to be people of action, initiators. Once again, the enemy is doing his best work in getting people to think they on the moral high road by sitting out. Lord, help us.

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Betty Moore's avatar

I pray that many believers will realize this and do their part to help elect a platform for good and not support the evil that could come from doing nothing!!

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Kevin Dzuban's avatar

Good one! And so true.

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Jim McCraigh's avatar

Thanks Kevin!

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Jack Sotallaro's avatar

What seems a simple choice is complicated by the choices of citizens. We know people who are ripe for conversion to conservatism that will not believe anything good about Trump nor anything bad about Harris. They have been brainwashed by the culture, media, schools, and the environment they grew up in. We try, in our Substack, to address these issues, but there's a lot of resistance. It will take a long time to re-educate people who've drank the Kool-Aid.

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Jim McCraigh's avatar

A very long time indeed... welcome to the fight!

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Ron Kays's avatar

Should be clear and simple. Getting tripped up by “personalities” is a sad commentary on the moral fortitude of the non-voter.

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Jim McCraigh's avatar

Well said. I had a boss years ago who taught that people hire in their own image... probably true for voting as well?

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Marc Miller's avatar

Birds of a feather…

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Kelley Keller's avatar

Well said!

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