Voter ID.....theoretically....requiring every voter to produce identification....would make for the fairest election. There would be less voter fraud. It would also disenfranchise low-income voters and minorities. Trump will claim that he is for fair elections....but disenfranchising many voters is just another way of not having a fair election. Many of us have no idea....or have forgotten....what life in poverty or near-poverty is like. I come from the latter....and I remember. We had trouble paying the rent and every utility bill. I cannot pinpoint the reason for the lack of mental acuity....or a healthy situational awareness. I just know that it exists....because I lived it. I am a benefactee of white privilege. I would not have escaped had my mother not found....(I continue to praise God for His mercies)....a cheap apartment right smack-dab in the middle....of middle America. Of my friends....(their houses no further than thirty yards from our duplex)....three became university professors....(Pitt, Carnegie Mellon and Clemson)....another was an economist...another an architect....another a child psychologist....and another a government official. I came in on their coattails. From what I have observed....when evangelicals....(friends of mine who for decades have been the most loving and compassionate of Christians)....when evangelicals are presented with problems like this today....amazingly they seemed to have lost all compassion. They see no further than the first sentence in this paragraph....because Trump's world that they live in....has told them to go no further....and they obey. Much of Christian Nationalism today is that church in Ephesus from the second chapter of Revelation....who "cannot bear those who are evil"....but have...."left [their] first love." Revelation 2:5a...."Remember....therefore from where you have fallen....repent....and do the works you did at first..."
Trump promises another executive order to force voter ID if the congress doesn't. There was a day....long ago....and in a different country.....when conservatives would rightly be against something like this.
The following is from an October post....OK....we know this....that before the Lord returns....there will be a falling away....(1 Thess 2:3)....that is the church folks.....us....there will be a falling away....in the church! Matthew tells us the same thing....in the words of Jesus....in the Olivet Discourse....24:10...."at that time many will fall away." I submit to you that what we see in the church right now.....with Christian nationalism reigning over the gospel of salvation....is part of the falling away.
The following is from a January 15 post....What about...."Not by might or by power but by My Spirit?" (Zechariah 4:6) What about "come out from among them and be separate?" (2 Corinthians 6:7) What about all the admonitions to stay vigilant ant awake and alert? What about all the warnings of false miracles and false prophets and a great delusion and a falling away that is coming....so strong of a delusion that even the elect....that is you and me folks....that even we can be taken in....if it were possible....which means temporarily....which is already what has happened to so many!
Love has grown cold on our side....and lawlessness abounds!
The 1933....Enabling Act....allowed the executive to make laws without the Parliament....and Germany was transformed.
