Thoughts on Super Tuesday

To oppose one class perpetually to another - young against old, manual labour against brain-worker, rich against poor, woman against man - is to split the foundations of the State; and if the cleavage runs too deep, there remains no remedy but force and dictatorship. If you wish to preserve a free democracy, you must base it - not on classes and categories, for this will land you the totalitarian State, where no one may act or think except as the member of a category. You must base it upon the individual Tom, Dick and Harry, and the individual Jack and Jill - in fact, upon you and me.

Dorothy L. Sayers from Are Women Human? pg. 36.

I am not a very political person, but I will be voting in my first primary today because my conscience demands it. I feel like I am in the middle of a bad movie - a dystopian farce where an entire nation is adrift in the Bermuda Triangle. We've lost our common sense, integrity, and moral compass, and now we must choose between a crook, a communist, and Lord Voldemort for supreme leader. I'll let you cast the roles.

Part of me is discouraged that my country has sunk so far, for it looks like we are fulfilling Sayers' grim prediction. But the other part of me is clinging to the settled truth that God is in control. His kingdom is never threatened but is a very real threat to the kingdoms of this world. The gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church regardless of the form they take. And those who are called to eternal life will be saved. I will pray for a peaceful and quiet life for the sake of the gospel, but only God knows the conditions under which His kingdom will grow. He is God. I am not. It is much better His way.

Did we in our own strength confide, 

our striving would be losing, 

were not the right man on our side, 

the man of God's own choosing. 

Dost ask who that may be? 

Christ Jesus, it is he; 

Lord Sabaoth, his name, 

from age to age the same, 

and he must win the battle.

And though this world, with devils filled, 

should threaten to undo us, 

we will not fear, for God hath willed 

his truth to triumph through us. 

The Prince of Darkness grim, 

we tremble not for him; 

his rage we can endure, 

for lo, his doom is sure; 

one little word shall fell him.

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-20