“The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23).

I’m worried about this election season in America. A problem with America is we’ve embraced the technologies of death and violence at the expense of love, love of thy neighbor and one’s fellow citizen. In one of the richest and most advanced nations, there is violence galore. Americans specialize in gun violence, and many consider guns the holy grail of freedom. With guns, Americans kill one another at higher rates than perhaps any other country on earth or in history. The number of mass shootings has grown, a shameful statistic. The transoms of newspapers and social media depict endless incidents of violence against women. To an extraterrestrial being, America might appear as a land of bullying, misogyny and murder, among other sins. We lack respect for the young and the old, with high rates of infant mortality and elder abuse. Many to most movies depict violence as normal. Yes, that’s it. We’ve come to expect violence as the norm in the United States of America. The life of a democracy guarantees little, and America has much to do.

So many of us look at what “our leaders” tell and say to us. We imitate them, honor them and revere their styles. That........

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