Matter..........................

     "Democracy, he admits, is always difficult, but only a Christian society has the fixed principles to face those difficulties.  To make democracy work, we have to face honestly the problems of injustice.  Chesterton reminds us very pointedly:  'God Himself will not help us ignore evil, but only to defy and to defeat it.'
     "There are some people who are very concerned about politics and insist that religion doesn't matter, just as there are some who are very concerned with religion and insist that politics don't matter.  But both matter. Just like both of the two great commandments matter and must always go together:  Love God and love your neighbor."
-Dale Ahlquist,  Common Sense 101:  Lessons from G. K. Chesterton