I am not saying that the Rapture is not important. What I am saying is that some people are neglecting their here and now responsibilities by not being more aware of what is going on in their country. The purpose of having a republic is to have participation by a well informed citizenry.
Here is an example—Obama is getting 80% approval ratings! Some of those people must be Christians. As a Massachusetts Catholic, I have been dismayed to see Catholics voting for pro-abortion candidates such as Kennedy and Kerry for many years. Something is getting lost in the translation. We are supposed to be a Christian nation yet we are voting more like a European socialist nation.
I like to know what is going on in the world and I have been that way since I was a teenager. But, just because I am that way and the people on freerepublic are that way, doesn’t mean that we are the majority. I believe that we are the minority. I think most people do not go out of their way to seek out information. They are not well informed and it doesn’t help that a liberal news source such as AP controls most of the news that people read in their local papers. Nor does it help that our schools and tv media are dominated by liberals. That is why I think that the churches should be doing something to inform Christians. I know that there are great Christian advocacy organizations but not every churgh goer belongs to any of these groups.
You said — I am not saying that the Rapture is not important.
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The Doctrine of the Rapture has absolutely nothing to do with what’s going on in this country. That’s what I’m saying...
You’re bringing up a “straw-man issue” for the sake of bemoaning the sorry state of affairs, in terms of the “so-called” Christians and what they are doing. I was just posting on another thread about the declining state of Christianity in this country (a Newsweek magazine article). What I was basically saying there is that it’s the “dead wood” that is being cleared out of Christianity, and not really the true Christians, themselves falling away.
So, what you’re saying about the approval ratings — I’m saying merely represents “so-called” Christians (that “dead wood”) and not true ones...
The true numbers of Christians are really a lot smaller than what is indicated in popular polls, where some people think they are a “Christian” because they are born in America... LOL...
[... We are supposed to be a Christian nation yet we are voting more like a European socialist nation...]
AHA!... There it is. You think we are a Christian
nation. We were founded on Judeo Christian principles,
but now that we have abandoned them, the glue is gone
and the great ship America is disintegrating.
Your Catholic voters may be “religious”, but certainly
by their voting record, they are not Biblically literate.
Thus you have answered your own query. It is not
Christians who neglect their political responsibilities.
It is rather the “spiritually” hijacked who have left
their Christian moorings and abdicated to the dark side.