Well the election is over and the Repubs have wrested the Senate away from the Dems.  Now they are going to have do something instead of just complaining about the Senate.  It,s going to be an interesting two years.

I saw a headline the other day that screamed...REPUBLICANS WILL RULE FOR 100 YEARS....
Eh....I don't think so.   The reason they won so many seats this time was exactly the same reason they one in the last mid-term....Young people, African Americans and Latino voters won't turn out unless the Presidency is being voted on.   This mid term had the lowest turn out since 1920 and the Repubs were fired up.  So I believe that instead of 100 years...they will have two.  The statistics are against them.  The browning of America is here and the majority of them vote Democrat. 

And now for some religious headlines...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan announced that about one third of the Catholic Parishes in New York would be closing or merging with other Parishes.  That to me is good news.  It was also stated that although church attendance is down in New York, in some places it is up and new parishes are being built.  The final numbers for 2013 though reflect the fact that people are turning away from organized religion.  61 new parishes were built in the U.S. in 2013 while 191 were closed.

James Lankford was elected Senator from Oklahoma.  He gave an interview to Tony Perkins of the Family Research council and said this..."I come from a biblical worldview in the way I address issues,” Lankford said. “I look at Nehemiah and how he handled things when he stepped into Jerusalem. It was that the people were in disgrace and the wall was broken down, but the two things that he focused in on was the constructive side of things and the debt. Half of the Book of Nehemiah is just getting the people out of debt, so they could actually take on the other things.”

I don't know anything about the book of Nehemiah but I will read it and have more to say about it in my next entry.

It is amazing to me that we give even the smallest amount of credence to people who continue to follow and receive direction from a book written 3500 years ago by people who believed the earth was flat, diseases were caused by demons, stars were encased in a watery filament and weather patterns could be changed by animal sacrifice.