[Comment on article that says, if Clinton wins, Christians should pray for her, not demonise people who didn't vote their way, stand up for religious freedoms and not be pessimistic]

We do not live in the Roman Empire where it's citizens, as well as Jews have no voice. Our nation was founded on the premise that the government is "of the people, by the people and for the people". As long as we have a part in that process, we have a responsibility to be the light of the world. If God is in control and we should just sit aside, we should then close down every church and outreach, every soup kitchen, etc because God is in control. If we sit idly by now, we will be sitting idly by when they come for us. Of course, if we take the attitude of the writer and many in this thread of comment, we won't have to worry about persecution because we won't be a threat while we sit idly by and pray in our houses. How many will go to hell because the church sat idly by and let all Christian freedom go down the drain because we just wanted to let the atheists take over and take what was once ours. Your comparisons with scriptural instances don't really compute with the opportunity we have in the United States. Of course, this may explain why it is not mentioned in prophetic scripture. Christians were lazy, apathetic, self righteous, and deceived, so they gave up their God-given rights and opportunities. We will end up like the Jews as they were loaded onto trains and taken to the furnaces.