Very thoughtful series of comments. I’m always glad when you’re on the thread, HiTech.
I do this because I believe I understand more and more a larger plan of God. Something that transcends political systems and human ideas of denominations.
Bu doing so, I bring discontent to partisans of all kinds. But I hope if I protest, I do it in the way that Martin Luther originally envisioned. He didn’t have a new denomination in mind; he was hoping to raise awareness within the Roman church. I hope that lefties would learn to reach rightward, and that righties would learn to reach leftward, and unite in a balanced, harmonious whole that, on the way, excludes idols. And governments are a very problematic idol today. I see God reaching through Donald, a man who isn’t even overtly religious and yet very affirming towards Christian faith’s role in America. The more God we embrace, the less government is going to be needed. People today are so hard wired into “the government ought to” that they forget “by the grace of God acted upon, the people ought to.”
A Christian society would have, in part, a kind of small-government leftism. Nobody would have to be taxed for benevolent purposes because all would be inspired to share in other ways, for the sake of the supernatural reach of gospel. It would break past many of our own earthly ideas.
And now I need to get back to working so that I may wisely share the results.