Bonnie Jacobson
Nov 6 · 2 min read

Thank you, Ms Peck, for your thoughtful analysis of the state of Christianity today, and your interesting observations about our president, who has ingratiated himself to the evangelical fundamentalist Christian movement. As a lifetime Catholic, I am surprised by your observations about the “collusion” of fundamentalist evangelical Christianity and Catholicism. But I can’t say I’m too surprised.

As I’m sure you are aware (as we all are), Christians have been waiting patiently for the coming of the Savior, for the restoration of humankind through the dispensation of Jesus when He returns. 2000-plus years now we’ve been waiting, and there is no sign of him, notwithstanding all our fervent prayers, and our devoted worship. I am finally convinced that the fervor is not working, the prayers for His Return are not being heard, and the hope of Mankind is, essentially, lost. We are living in bleak times, and we’ve done a tremendous amount of damage to our world… our Garden of Eden.

We haven’t been good Stewards of the Garden, as was asked of us, and now we’re facing the outcome of our failure to preserve and to revere what we’ve been given. I can’t but believe that the despair that you’ve voiced so eloquently in your piece is a definitive pronouncement of that despair that we, as Christians, all feel deep inside. Has it occurred to you, as it has to me (and many others) that perhaps we simply are not worthy of the blessing that a Second Coming of the Son of God would bring?

And of course, there is the growing presentiment of the secular voices — the voice of the scientists and business leaders, the voices of all the non-Christian believers, and the Moslem and Oriental believers, that disagree with our Christian point of view about the Second Coming. Is it any wonder there is growing Christian despair.