Christian Liberals & Progressive People of Faith
In reply to the discussion: Did anyone else find themselves praying night and day for DEMs to hold onto our Democracy? [View all]summer_in_TX
(2,727 posts)Christian Nationalists pray selfishly for things harmful to others. They prayed for Obama to die, for instance. Their hearts are not aligned with that of God.
Those who pray humbly and sincerely for the benefit of good in the world often see our prayers answered in whole or in part.
I certainly prayed urgently and earnestly for democracy to survive and for the forces of authoritarianism to be defeated. It is evident to me that God favors a system of government that grants freedom of expression, of worship, of the press to the people, that protects them from being thrown into prison for speech and thought. The trajectory of American history to grant more freedoms to vote to formerly excluded races is another. We've survived authoritarian movements in the 1930s and now as well as a civil war.
"The arc of the moral universe is long. But it bends toward justice."