Seeking God's Blessing How Then Should We Cast Our Vote?
By Al Cronkrite The Covenant News ~ October 07, 2008
As I stand in the checkout line at our local Wal-Mart the lady in front of me at the register pays for her purchases with food stamps. My taxes help finance the food she is buying and her vote for the liberal forces that supply it will cancel my vote for the conservative forces that oppose it. If there are more of her ilk than of mine, the Robin Hood state will continue to steal my money and distribute it to whomever they see fit.
The upscale neighborhoods in my town are home to numerous McCain/Palin signs while the Black neighborhoods are solidly behind Obama/Biden.
Voting in the United States is somewhat similar to going to church. With very little understanding of the true objective, voters often get a feeling of satisfaction that an obligation has been fulfilled and a moral duty accomplished. Support for the two major political parties is also similar to supporting ones alma mater; it is personal, often tainted with tradition, and is vigorously defended.
Some voters cast their ballot for the man as opposed to the party, others are members of ethnic groups and tend to vote as a block, there is social pressure to vote for a particular party, local party politics sometimes mandates the vote, most are either Democrats or Republicans. The party supporters seem to treat elections like athletic contests. They exhibit a visceral hate for the opposition, inundating it with denigration and vitriol. Few have any real understanding of their proper role as a voter. There is thick propaganda urging dumb voters to vote.
One of the largest and most tragic voting blocks is the vast population of converted Christian Evangelicals who sincerely believe they can predict an imminent Second Coming of Christ. With complete disregard for their own nation they commit a grievous sin by supporting the illegitimate nation of Israel in a vain effort to help God along. With these voters eschatology trumps all else.
Another large block of voters that has a sizeable overlap with Evangelicals, maintains that third party candidates are not viable and therefore should not be supported. Surprisingly, Reformed leader Gary DeMar is a member of this group. He writes, “Many Christians are pushing Chuck Baldwin and the Constitution Party. Baldwin doesn’t have a chance, and he knows it. The system is against him. Moreover, he doesn’t have any electoral experience. The same goes for Alan Keyes who has no business running for president when he couldn’t win a Senate seat in Maryland in 1988 and 1992 and couldn’t beat Barack Obama in a Senate race in Illinois in 2004. At least Ron Paul and Bob Barr have won some elections and have a legislative track record.” Read Gary DeMar’s essay here.
If God’s Son had reasoned like Gary DeMar, salvation would never have come to His creation! Using DeMar’s wisdom, He would have determined that “the system (was) against him” and instead of being obedient unto death, He would have made peace with the high priests, joined them and attempted to reform their thinking. Thank God Jesus did not think like Gary DeMar.
Ambitious individuals often evade difficult truth that might disrupt the steps they intend to use for their journey upward. Conspiracy theorists and third party supporters are not popular in high Christian circles. Gary DeMar has been warming himself on the embers of the D. James Kennedy ministry and could aspire to the lofty error of people like Dobson, Schlafly, Wildmon, Robinson, or the late Jerry Falwell; all were afflicted with Pragmatism, a common sin in those who aspire to leadership.
The humanistic logic Christian leaders use to justify supporting evil is self defeating. Righteousness cannot return to our nation because not enough voters support it and not enough voters support it because God’s servants put winning before obedience and reason before faith. They seem to worship a different god, one that allows support for blatant sin as long as it is the lesser of the two sins. That is not the God of the Bible! The One True God expects obedience without regard for consequences. Unfortunately, most of our blind Christian leaders are also stubborn and unteachable.
There is a widely accepted premise that the larger the percentage of the electorate that votes the better the quality of the democratic process. Each individual voter is considered important. If that bit of wisdom is correct, we are in deep trouble since the 65 percent of the adult population that voted in 1960 dropped to 51 percent in 2000 and in the 2002 congressional primaries only 18 percent participated with 39 percent participating in the election itself.
It is no wonder the population has lost interest in the electoral process. In the presidential race candidates are pre-selected; dissent from conventional wisdom is squelched by the press; and the campaign of illegitimate promises and outright lies is boringly protracted. Congressmen have designed their districts so their re-election is almost assured. Ninety five percent of them are regularly re-elected. In the late Nineteenth Century as many as a third of the House would often be replaced. Our crafty elected officials have made sure that does not happen in our time.
The congressman that represents our area was a big supporter of term limits but when it came time for him to retire he quietly continued. He was originally elected in 1989 and is now up for re-election. He is considered Conservative even though he supports the United Nations and seldom takes his oath of office seriously. He should be replaced but party politics will not allow it.
Obama is campaigning on a promise for change. Since George W. Bush’s reputation is rightfully in the tank, change is a key attraction to voters. However, the only candidate that promised real specific changes was Ron Paul. He is an America first, open market, anti-abortion, law abiding, family man who accurately predicted our current financial debacle. But he was chided by the establishment candidates, ignored by Christian leaders, and brutally marginalized by the media. If there is to be any hope for change, righteous candidates must find traction.
Our system bears some similarity to the system used in the old Soviet Union. During Stalin’s reign, candidates were overwhelmingly elected since there was only one candidate on the ballot. In the United States we have two candidates on the ballot but voters still have no choice since both candidates are selected by party leaders who got to be leaders by selling their souls to the hidden forces that control them. If you need proof of that control just consider the pressure party leaders put on our elected officials to vote for the $700 billion dollar bailout, the biggest fraud in history. They voted it down once but the majority of our elected officials have very little endurance.
A democratic form of government cannot be sustained without an informed and alert electorate. Our forefathers warned us that our government was designed for a moral people who are willing to be obedient to the mandates of the Constitution.
Centralization is anathema to democracy. Theoretically, presidential candidates are to be chosen at state conventions and delegates from each state sent to the national convention to support a particular candidate. This cumbersome system was replaced by party leaders who have vested themselves with the power to choose candidates.
Political parties distort the best interests of the nation by putting loyalty to the party above the best interests of the nation. The competitive exchanges of the Hegelian Dialectic are anathema to righteous government. On issues that involve right and wrong, long time compromises with evil will produce today’s scenario – Chaos; financially, morally, spiritually, and legally.
Christians who believe they are serving God by voting for the lesser of two evils are serving Satan instead. Righteousness and freedom are progressively obliterated when citizens in a democratic nation vote pragmatically. The only road to righteousness and freedom is pervasive, long term voting for the most righteous candidate. It is not the responsibility of the Christian voter to determine the outcome of the election. Their responsibility is to obediently pursue righteousness leaving the outcome in the Hands of The King.
Gary DeMar grudgingly admits that Ron Paul’s honesty, obedience, decent private life, and plain talk might qualify him for president but chooses instead to support the lesser of two evils acting on the bogus promises and crafty inferences that have brought our nation to its lowest ebb. He is wrong! It is this spurious reasoning that is responsible for the election of our most pernicious leaders.
President George W. Bush has arguably been the worst president in United States history. He has allowed a group of secular Zionist intellectuals to commandeer our government, sullied our image by supporting torture and aggressive warfare, engineered the potential collapse of the dollar by creating more debt than any other regime in history, peppered his administration with homosexuals, prayed to foreign gods, lied to the people, exported our industry, diminished our standard of living, abolished Posse Comitatus, allowed our infrastructure to collapse, siphoned our wealth to foreign nations, passed tyrannical laws, and through it all has swaggered like a third world dictator.
President George W. Bush, like the infamous leader of the Third Reich, received much of his support from rightwing Christians.
It is not the quantity of the electorate that is paramount but the quality. We have cheapened the vote by allowing hopelessly unqualified voters to be manipulated by an agenda driven media that studiously accommodates the mission of an elite cabal bent on controlling the world.
The two major political parties will not allow a candidate like Ron Paul to bring the change that is needed to re-invigorate our nation. Their allegiance is to the shadow government that is using and abusing our nation in the name of world government. Obama or McCain will soon become the puppet in Washington that will do the bidding of that shadowy group and, unfortunately, the one that does will be doing it with the blessings of many of our Christian leaders.
The Bible warns us to know them by their fruits. The fruits of the two-party-system are slowly poisoning our nation.
Ron Paul was able to establish the issues but had now dropped out of the presidential race apparently feeling he could be more useful as a congressman in the Republican Party. He has announced his support for Pastor Chuck Baldwin who is little known but is by far the most righteous candidate. Christians who support godly government should support Chuck Baldwin.
God cannot bless the two headed evil that dominates United States politics. Until Christians achieve the wisdom and gumption to condemn evil and support righteousness, asking God to bless America is a vain request.