Trying to keep our government true to its republican standards and articulating a desire for a basic moral framework to our society is not imposing Christianity on unbelievers. See, Christians are so fractured that they are worthless. Some think politics is evil on its face. Others think that we must compromise like crazy. Then there are those like me who think the church needs to focus on the truth of the gospel, but that Christians, even Christian leaders, also have an obligation as citizens of this country. WE THE PEOPLE are the government. Those who vote in Washington and in state houses are simply our representatives. If the government is corrupt and immoral then it is our fault. The gospel doesn't belong in government, but what happens in government effects our right to preach and share the truth, so we'd better pay attention.
And we are sort of in that same place with Hamas being duly elected in a fair election. And in 5-10 years if they vote the same stuff into iraq waht do we do? See what these guys are supporting is not exactly democracy they want a government that supports christianity by legislating it from congress or the bench.
And when the liberals legislated their atheism and anti-god stuff and still are we are all angry and pull no punches of how we feel about it but this has nothing to do with the Gospel and Chirst -- it is for our own self comfort so people can not publicly say and do thing to offend us --so we try to make the unsaved act atleast partically saved and if they don't we use government and the courts as our sword to convert or atleast act so in public hence the FCC laws, and all kinds of stuff. This has nothing to do with general laws of all civilized societies and the ten commandments, and I might add that abortion is clearly murder I am not talking so much about that
I am rather discussing or I hope I am how we get back to better government and that would be as Rush would say him convincing people one person at a time (salvation one on one) until we see eye to eye and simply vote our consience with out threaatening or brow beating the unsaved into submission.
unfortunately few see it that way and would prefer giving the libs the same treatment they have given us -- (how enlightened, how christ-like). They instead prefer that we become activists and do this in your face shoutdown of those who disagree. And I do not find this behavior in the Gospel and epistles. But these people insist that to lay down our lives and to let people reward our good with evil is being a wimp and a failure. They insist that we are to stand up and seize this earthly kingdom from the devil and put him in his place -- this is largely due to the preaching of Kenneth Hagan, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell And these men have done a lot to shape evanglicalism fundamentalism and the Chrismatic movement since the early 1980's and I think it is fair to say that the bulk of the converts in these movements are from that time on -- the majority of the churches I have been in that are growing are filled with young people -- rather than the old faithful so we incerasingly have a church that has heard only this activist in your face Gospel and accepting without reservation that this is the truth and this is the way that it always has been.
Let me just say that when Jerry Falwell first began talking about the moral majority I lived in virginia, Alexandria just up the road from Jerry Falwell church and school amd He was rejected by many evangelicals fundamentalists and charismatics as a blow hard and self-righteous. Whether you know it or not he was deposed by his own church in lynchbug and he fellback to the bible school he had build. In those days nobody envisioned what would happen in the church over the next few decades.
Some things are not at all the way they might appear.