Is best demonstrated here:
If we wonder why Ohio enshrined the sex, drugs and abortion culture into our state constitution, you need only thank the majority of Catholics.
Always remember, the biblical narrative is, as often as not, a minority witness. It's the majority of those called by God flipping God the high middle finger, and loathing those who remain faithful in the process. It is not a story where the majority always does the right thing and follows the commandments given them by the God who loves them.
Someone once posted a meme that, supposedly by a Baptist preacher, that if the Catholic bishops wanted abortion to end and actually acted on it, it would end. Who knows who "said" it, but I definitely agreed with that. If the Bishops had held the faithful to task about only voting for pro-life candidates and smacked down pro-abortion Catholic candidates, at the very least you'd have prolife options in both parties.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it is depressing when you see those who *should* know better either don't or won't. A friend of mine, Hillsdale educated, practicing Catholic, prolife (in practice) mother of 6, took the head librarian job at a big local system. She also promptly defended in policy a rather graphic book that was prominently placed in the teen section. At first there was some waiver as parents came to a board meeting to ask them to move the book to the adult section. By the next month the board had regrouped and prepared. Adult activists, too old to have children in the teen section anymore, flooded the meeting, heckled the parents who came to speak, and the board dug in their heels by adopting part of the American Library Association (run by a self described Marxist Lesbian) statement on providing access to all types of materials in opposition to parents' wishes. This head librarian then put her name on a letter to the editor framing the issue as a "free speech" issue...very disingenuous in my opinion. On top of that at a parish picnic, the topic came up with one of my friends and a parishioner who didn't know what side my friend fell on, lamented all the hubbub at the library and those who protested. Apparently it is her husband, also a parishioner, who does all the ordering for the library system.
Anyway, ironically your observation actually brings me some hope. We should expect nothing from others but strive to be faithful ourselves. That is something we actually can do.
Yes, it is a reflection I lean on. The Bible seldom said the people of God are in the majority, are doing the right thing, and blessings are flowing from it. It repeatedly tells a story of people doing wrong, getting it wrong, and abandoning their covenant relationship, as we're seeing today. Many just don't believe it anymore. And that's those still in the pews most Sundays. Many others are apostatizing and renouncing the faith altogether. Which will help us learn just what a world shorn of the Gospel influence looked like before the Gospel. Which I am sure will not be a pleasant thing.
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