Maybe its my protestant upbringing but I get nervous about powerful governing authority within Christianity. Its why I like the tea party, multiple disorganized groups.
Besides, the National Council of Churches claim to be Christian but they have a pretty clear green socialist bent.
I agree. The last thing I want is any sort of theocracy. I want God to be acknowledged and to guide our country, but I don’t want someone who says “God told me...”. That can lead to all sorts of problems.
I, too, would resist an attempt to unify a “christian” voting bloc, though I have no objection to the outreach described in the article.
We don’t need to be told by some earthly authority how to vote...we are led by the Spirit.
I see in other countries they have political parties with “christian” in the title- don’t understand it quite. As citizens, we should vote our conscience, and the Spirit is not divided- but we can never vote in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Yep we should only let the Muslims organize and vote as a block, Christians need to stay out of the Frey.
Winning With Evangelicals
How the 2004 presidential race turned on religious outreach
After the 2000 election debacle, which saw Bush lose the popular vote, White House political don Karl Rove estimated publicly that 4 million white evangelical voters had stayed home on Election Day 2000. He vowed to reinvigorate them for 2004. . .
When Ralph Reed left Christian Coalition after the 1996 election, the organization-which had boasted an $8.5 million budget and a thousand nationwide chapters-more or less collapsed. Membership dwindled and the group fell into debt. But, the Bushies theorized, neither GOP strategists nor Christian right groups had appreciated the vacuum in voter mobilization efforts left by Christian Coalition’s implosion until the exit polls came back from 2000. . .
In 2004, Bush’s campaign instead hired Reed to work from the inside. Officially, he was the Bush-Cheney chairman for the southeast region of the United States. But his more important assignment was to construct a vast volunteer infrastructure, extending into tens of thousands of voter precincts, to get evangelicals to the polls. “ . . .
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070225/5excerpt.htm