Repeating the same action, over and over

There was an article on Daily Beast this weekend concerning why Christian Evangelicals are so angry. Rick Santorum was cited.

Here's my answer: They're angry because they pray and pray and pray, with all their hearts and souls, and nothing changes.

Abortion doesn't stop. Teenagers have sex. Grownups have sex.

Most of the American people don't reject homosexuality any more.

Nothing changes. Or, the "sins" increase.

Judges uphold the Constitution instead of "religious values." And are verbally attacked as traitors.

One trait fanatics share: When all they see is failure, they ramp up the struggle. Abortion fanatics have murdered doctors, and blown up clinics, killing or blinding people.  Even after they won control of state governments, little changed.

America's Christian fanatics expected the people they fear and hate to destroy the country when Obama became president. That didn't happen either.

Some of them hate/fear "others" so much, they beg their god to jump-start the End Times so they can go to their segregated heaven.

Some of them will find nothing wrong with priming the pump. You've seen men with firearms patrolling city streets to "protect" citizens after race riots. You've seen men of the same ilk threaten to kill lawmen in Southern Nevada to protect a liar and cheat. And others marching through the Arizona and Texas deserts to shut out the desperate people of Mexico and Central America.

As for unanswered prayers: As my grandmother--and others--say, "Sometimes the answer is no."

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