[Don'tMessWithTexas]

First, this nation is not what it was 200 years ago. It has drifted far from its religious moorings. As a christian, I know that can only be restored by a revival brought about by God. Conservatives see the world for what it is and deal with the situation appropriately. In that respect, christianity and conservatism are at an uneasy tension with one another.

Second, many presidents have been professor of the christian religion, but that does not mean that they actually embraced Christ with a true faith. This country has always had leaders who professed Christ, but often their politics got in the way of their faith. Something that modern evangelicals seem to forget.

Third, evangelicals must realize that they have, like it or not, become part of a political coalition. Many establishment libs hated Clinton for approving welfare reform, but they did not abandon him. Rather they still effuse love for the guy. Evangelicals do not have the same affection for someone who deviates from their evangelical principles.

Fourth, which christian magistrate is the most useful to God's people? The one who professes Christ but does is soft in combat and actually does nothing to protect God's people from the Muslim horde, or one who is extremely inconsistent in his principles and profession, but annihilates the buggers from off the face of the homeland?

I am casting my vote for a commander in chief, not a pastor. Both have their useful roles but I will not confuse the two.

[donna]

I’m voting for someone who knows the value of life.

[LibLieSlayer]

Read his attack dog email about Fred. This man has a black heart and is not man of Christ. He is a vile and self-centered man... and I have supported him financially for years. No more.

LLS

[Finny]

Oh, good post. Well done.

[roamer_1]

I am casting my vote for a commander in chief, not a pastor. Both have their useful roles but I will not confuse the two.

Neither need they be mutually exclusive. The most qualified candidate would be qualified as both a Christian and a Commander in Chief (and he is).

[Cvengr]

Good post, although the best Commander-in-Chief shall place God first in his thinking in all things at all times. That doesn’t prevent him from exercising legitimate national authority in the defense of the nation, even by the use of offensive tactics.

IMHO, we’ve succumbed to the notion that living within the world implies one must be worldly in their thinking, rather than recognizing His Plan is best fulfilled by those remaining in faith through Christ in all things first, including the defense of the nation from antiChristian assault by active measures.

BTW, I also do not advocate those who seek Christian crusades. Instead, every believer is to respect those institutions God has etablished and their legitimate authority, which are available to believer and unbeliever alike, namely free will, marriage, family and national governance.