A prayer against evangelicals and conservatives

Dear Lord, with the recent passing of laws in Georgia, which are based upon lies and a desire to suppress the votes of African Americans, and the bills being moved through legislatures in states across our country, I ask that you would work against those who would create laws to undermine freedom, and those who work to perpetuate injustice against others for the sake of power. I ask that their bills would fail, that their efforts would be frustrated and fruitless, and that they would turn their desires to seeking that more people would be allowed to vote, and hindrances would be removed instead of created. When conservative lawmakers speak lies to their base, may their messaging be ineffectual and confused – may their unjust motives be seen clearly despite their attempts to cloak them with distractions like “fraud” or “legal votes”. May their efforts be seen clearly as bad faith arguments and divisive tactics meant to create anger for their own political fortunes. I ask that you would open the eyes of my evangelical brothers and sisters who unknowingly perpetuate racism by supporting these policies and lawmakers.  Please show them the wickedness and folly of these policies, and please grant them wisdom and humble self reflection regarding these things.  Please make it clear to them how these laws might seem good on the surface, but in reality are based on opportunism to maintain power, and come at the expense of those who have suffered so much already.  Please allow them to investigate and ask questions to find out if what they think they know truly lines up with reality; may they see that they’ve been sold lies and disinformation.  Where there is pride in their self assured sense of righteousness and a false sense of being racially just, please let them see their bankruptcy.  Let them see that despite believing with everything within them that they are not racists, that they actually are.  I ask that you would change their hearts, and replace white supremacy with humility and godly sorrow. For those who knowingly peddle lies to those who are easily deceived, I ask that you would bring them out of power, and may their secret shame be brought into the open.  May Trump come to know you, and may he cease from disseminating lies to those who follow him uncritically.  Please touch the hearts of all conservatives who use the deception of “election fraud” to create laws and policies which are evil and unjust; please bring them to yourself, and please grant them repentance for their wicked behaviors and thoughts. I pray especially for the large number of evangelical Christians who are white supremacists and don’t even know it; who are racists, and have no clue; who are feeding systemic racism, unawares – all the while truly believing with all their heart that since they “treat all people the same” and that “they don’t see color” that they somehow escape from those labels.  Please show them the truth; please give them strength to face it, to know that while it’s not something they became willingly, it’s something they must escape deliberately.  Please let them be willing to consider that if sin has truly tainted every part of life, then might it be that it has tainted our culture, our politics, our policies, and our language.  Please open their eyes to the fact that speaking words and sharing thoughts in a way that considers others before ourselves is included in our mandate to love our neighbor, and not something to be derided and labelled pejoratively as ‘woke’ or ‘politically correct’. I ask for strength for them to face these things about themselves, which are heartbreaking to learn, and for me to deal patiently and lovingly with them, as I remember that I too have been guilty of all these things for the larger part of my life. I pray all this in Jesus name, amen.