Posted on 01/11/2015 7:14:22 AM PST by Moseley
Is it a requirement for all Christians to vote? The question is not merely whether Christians should “dirty their hands” by participating in politics. Are Christians actually required to participate in politics? Can you be an obedient Christian without voting?
I am starting to believe that nothing else can save the Republic. Everyone comments that we are a sharply-divided nation, with really no clear majority for either the Republican or Democrat Party. However, what if 10 million new voters showed up and voted Republican? The nation would no longer be 50-50. The balance would tilt sharply to the GOP
Every U.S. election in the last 50 years, federal, state or local, could have been different (where the conservative did not already win) if most conservative Christians took their responsibility seriously to just vote. That is why I think every tea party activist should care about Christians voting, even if they are not themselves religious or Christian.
It is estimated that 18 million Christians considered conservative are not registered to vote. Of those who are registered to vote, half do not vote. Of those who do vote, many do not bother to inform themselves.
I am seeking to become the Faith-Based Community Outreach Chair for the Fairfax County Republican Committee. Although recently returned from Florida, in years past I was a voting member of the Loudoun County Republican Committee and ages ago of the Arlington County Republican Committee.
To advance these efforts, I arranged a video of Dr. D. James Kennedy, encouraging Christians to vote. Kennedy was pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church until his death in 2007. I will be working to distribute this to Fairfax County churches.
I hope to encourage churches to play this short 7 1/2 minute video to their entire congregation.
(Excerpt) Read more at fairfaxfreecitizen.com ...
Conservatives and tea party supporters – if they are church-goers – might want to share this with their own church/ I realize that not all tea party members are religious, and the tea party has its focus. But Phyllis Schlafly always taught:
I don’t care why someone votes with me, as long as we win the election or the bill passes the legislature that we want. I will take their vote no matter why they are motivated to vote my way.
If more Christians were to vote, would they vote Republican? Not all. But remember that the Democrat National Convention actually booed God in 2012, even knowing they were on national television doing it. While the parents and grandparents of many God-fearing Christians were lifelong Democrats, the revolutionary “New Left” hijacked the Democrat Party in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Remember the 1968 riot at the Democrat National Convention in Chicago.
The modern leadership of the Democrat Party is opposed to traditional America society and seems hell-bent on evicting God from the United States of America. Most Bible-believing Christians faithful to God would vote Republican more often than Democrat. While God is neither Republican nor Democrat (but is entitled to be Lord of All), the spiritual war between good and evil has spilled over to the political sphere.
Is it a requirement for all Christians to vote?
It is a requirement that Christians render unto God what is His.
Caesar owns the electoral process — let Caeser have it.
Christian duty to vote?
My thought at the moment is yes. Even though the US govt is man made, and not perfect, I am a member here on earth.
As such I should vote, and do even more.
But watch out for a ‘new religion’ of you must vote, or vote republican, or campaign for XXXXXX, etc.
How many Christians voted for Obama? And how many voted for Mitt?
That being said, to choose not to vote is a valid decision. When you choose not to decide, you still make a choice. You leave the matter to a smaller number who may have a superior pool of wisdom with your absence.
So, voting for the sake of going to the polls and participating can be the least responsible choice. And its perfectly moral to vote and skip races on the ballot where you lack wisdom.
Therefore "voting" is definitely NOT what the "Rock the Vote" clowns would have the easily commanded celebrate it as.
Is it OK to vote for evil?
If both parties are crap, why would a Christan vote for either of them?
Vote for gay marriage, abortion, and open borders, as long as it has “R” by the name on the ballot.
Its what Jesus would do.
It really needs to be made clear what the term “Christian” means in this article. Most mainline denominations are comprised overwhelmingly by practical atheists in this day. Just because they attend these rotting corpses formerly known as Christian churches, or even stand in the pulpit, does not make them Christians.
And even in my mothers Southern Baptist mega-church, she tells me of well-know parrishioners (or whatever you call them in Baptist churches) who vote solid Democrat. Unbelievable.
SOME BIBLICAL REASONS CHRISTIANS SHOULD VOTE
The government is on Christ’s shoulders.
We are to be salt and light in the world.
Jesus promises to fight our battle for us. (He needs soldiers)
Jesus tells us to take up our cross and follow Him.
We are to be the head and not the tail
We are to be in the counsel.
He will spew the lukewarm out his mouth.
If I vote for anyone who supports homo-marriage, I would be giving my tacit endorsement of evil. That’s something I will never do.
“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” - Psalm 146:3
“This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the LORD.” - Jeremiah 17:5
“And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar’s” - Luke 20:25
The vast majority of Christians who bothered to vote, voted either for communist 0bama or socialist Romney. They voted for government controlled medical practice, they voted for gun control, they voted for abortion, and they voted for sodomy.
I always vote. I don’t need someone to command me to vote.
I’m not sure I want people voting who have to wait around for someone to command them to vote.
Absolutely true. But the upside of that is that those who don’t care what the Bible or Jesus say about anything else won’t care what they say about voting and their responsibility as citizens, either. In fact, responsibility is one of the greatest evils to such people.
If the only option is to vote for evil should Christians still vote?
Good luck and God bless. I always viewed voting as a sort of rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, namely my patriotic duty.
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