After a recent bout of watching YouTube videos of our new President Elect, I was inspired to compose this piece of writing which I feel is important for all Christian people to meditate on. Because of the nature of the topic I will dance around the issues for a moment, basically in an attempt to dispell and pre-concieved notions about where I stand, before I let you know where I stand, so bear with me.
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Look, if you want to be a Christian in government stop looking at Republicans as God’s army in our government for the “moral” issues. Stop looking at Democrats as God’s army for “social moral” issues. Become educated, don’t accept what’s shoved in your face by popular “Christian” speakers like Chuck Swindoll and the like. I personally don’t even know who such people would be (beyond Swindoll) because I refuse to have my beliefs decided for me.

It’s time for Christian people to live up to their responsibilities as citizens of this world. I know that in John 15:18-20 Jesus talks about how we are not of this world. But I think that we have corrupted what he was saying here to try to claim that Christ doesn’t care about our political responsibilities. We can see an easy contrast to this in how God attacks the ruling authorities of Israel and Judah as well as the individual people’s practices. Here’s where many people say, “Uhoh, not another liberal who is going to try to turn me into a democrat by saying that God is a socialist.” And to that I respond, “You’re right! I’m not a liberal who’s going to claim that God is a socialist.”

But what I am going to claim is that God honors our free-will and the reason that he “created us in his own image.” That is to say, God created us to have creative powers, both intellectually as well as physically and we therefore have the responsibility to utilize those creative powers in our best effort to serve him and consequentially serve humanity.

Therefore, we should no longer look at our government as being simple, and when stop we can by consequence of such a decision, understand the ramifications of our actions easily. Furthermore, we cannot pretend to think that we should try to be God for other (or godless) people, since God himself doesn’t force himself on others.

With that in mind, here is how government should be viewed. Government should be the highest example of how individuals should live their lives:

Economically: Is it any wonder that people are foreclosing on houses right now? Our government has been virtually bankrupt for more than 50 years they just keep avoiding the penalty for it by creating money out of thin air. I believe this is called counterfeiting and is a federal offense, and yet we allow our government to do this without any consequence (well the consequence is coming). People with socialist ideals see poor people as needing help from the government, and yet the government is causing more and more people to be poor by creating more money out of thin air. Inflation doesn’t hurt the rich, it hurts the poor. How can we as Christians endorse (which many do) this kind of activity? They simply are not educated to know the ramifications of such decisions.

Socially: Why is it that we have people living a homosexual lifestyle demanding to be allowed to marry? Our government says that it has some sort of right to regulate marriages and therefore marriage, which should be a religious institution, has become a government institution and has infringed on our religious freedoms. By giving tax benefits to marriages (which no one complains about until the government does something they don’t like) people choosing the homosexual lifestyle now have the grounds to claim that the government is discriminating against them by not allowing them to have access to the same types of benefits. If you give up your freedoms (keeping marriage solely as a religious institution) in order to gain a benefit (tax incentives) then you are endorsing unconstitutional and ungodly behavior of the government to simply remove the liberties of people. So what’s the issue? People do not evaluate the ramifications of such infringements because at the time their seems to be only benefits, but whether immediately or after a long period of time, the negatives of giving away liberties will come around and slap you in the face.

Internationally: What happens when we try to force God, or our sense of God on people? War is what happens; in this country and especially in our government we have idolized democracy and have repeatedly tried to force it on people. It could also be argued that many in our government have not idolized democracy but yet their recognition that the people have idolized it has motivated them to commit tremendous atrocities overseas in the name of democracy. Not only that, but our government cannot afford the money that’s being spent on our troops/bases/wars overseas. It is a threat to our national security and therefore a threat to the very purpose of government which is to protect our liberties.

These are just a few issues where the general populace of America is ignorant and far too many Christian voters. Education is the key folks, and it doesn’t come in the form of watching the news, watching the news comes after the education.