Fr. Longenecker nails it:
Why are Americans tumbling headlong into the worship of a lying, lecherous, crooked Tiberius on the one hand and a scheming, ambitious, corrupt and lying Livia on the other?
Because sin has made us stupid. Sin blinds us. Why? Because first we start lying to ourselves. We justify our sins. We say they don’t matter. We say they aren’t really sins. When we lie to ourselves we believe our own lies and then we will very easily believe the lies of others. Donald Trump and the Clintons have been caught out in lie after lie, but we don’t mind because we lie all the time. We have chosen what we want to believe according to what is comfortable and not according to what is true. Therefore when someone comes along and tells us a lie that makes us comfortable for a moment, or makes us feel strong or makes us feel superior we swallow it hook, line and sinker.
For fifty years Americans have indulged in sexual immorality, abortion, war, murder, graft, corruption, abuse of the poor, sodomy, child abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction….and the list could go on. For the most part we’ve turned a blind eye. We’ve excused ourselves and excused others in the name of a weak kind of tolerance. Consequently, as a nation we are blind and stupid because sin makes you stupid.
(source: Sin Makes You Stupid…and Violent)
