Or the Vicar of Christ would not say this:
'Shun the worship of idols!', (1 Cor. 10:14), [Saint Paul] writes to a community deeply marked by paganism and divided between the observance of adherence to the novelty of the Gospel and the observance of old practiced inherited from their ancestors.
...The word 'idol' comes from the Greek and means 'image', 'figure', 'representation', but also 'ghost', 'phantom', 'vain appearance'. An idol is a delusion, for it turns its worshiper away from reality and places him in the kingdom of mere appearances.
Now, is this not a temptation in our own day – the only one we can act upon effectively? The temptation to idolize a past that no longer exists, forgetting its shortcomings; the temptation to idolize a future which does not yet exist, in the belief that, by his efforts alone, man can bring about the kingdom of eternal joy on earth! ...
It's the Eschatology, stupid!
It seems to me that whenever someone tried to make Jesus a king in this world, he either walked away or denounced their plans. In the end, he ended up riding into his own (excruciatingly painful) execution for our sins. Do any of these candidates really appears to dislike having power "thrust upon" them? And which of the two presidential contenders looks like he has suffered more pain for his people? Funny how the secularists search so hard for something- someone- to fill that god shaped hole in their hearts....
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