Thread by @SSawyerSJ

@NYCatholicRadio @KHalveyGibson @americamag @bcstm @Americaeditor @Kerry_Weber Need more than one tweet to answer here, so please wait for the /end on this thread before replying. Thanks.

Here's how Jesus responds to me:
"You seem anxious and troubled. Who told you to ask this question this way?"

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@NYCatholicRadio @KHalveyGibson @americamag @bcstm @Americaeditor @Kerry_Weber "Get behind me, satan!" — because the enemy can (and does) use Scripture and twist good moral claims to divide and desolate us. Jesus asks me if I think that he wants me to pay attention _only_ to the unborn while ignoring immigrants and the poor. And I say "Of course not."

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@NYCatholicRadio @KHalveyGibson @americamag @bcstm @Americaeditor @Kerry_Weber You want me to pay attention to all of them, Lord. But I don't see how — because we have such terrible choices in this election, and every option seems to result in supporting evil.

And Jesus says: "What do you read in the Scriptures and hear from my church?"

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@NYCatholicRadio @KHalveyGibson @americamag @bcstm @Americaeditor @Kerry_Weber To love God with all my heart, and mind, and strength; to love my neighbor as myself. And neighbors are everyone wounded, vulnerable, and in need: the unborn, immigrants, the poor, those who suffer from racism, and on and on.

Jesus says: "Do you think I can choose just one?"

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@NYCatholicRadio @KHalveyGibson @americamag @bcstm @Americaeditor @Kerry_Weber And then Jesus weeps, and I weep with him.

And Jesus says: "Listen to the church; there is much wisdom there, for the Father and I have sent the Spirit to guide and protect her."

So I listen to the church, which tells me that a vote is not automatic cooperation in evil.

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@NYCatholicRadio @KHalveyGibson @americamag @bcstm @Americaeditor @Kerry_Weber And I take that to Jesus, who says "So what are you really trying to do when you vote?"

To choose, in the face of terrible options, the one who I think will accomplish less evil and more good during their time in office.

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@NYCatholicRadio @KHalveyGibson @americamag @bcstm @Americaeditor @Kerry_Weber And Jesus says "And what will you do about the evil done by one for whom you vote?"

I will resist it, and protest it, and continue to work against it.

Jesus asks: "Then are you supporting this evil?"

No.

Jesus says: "So do not believe those who tell you that you are."

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