I don't compartmentalize my Christianity. Everything we are supposed to think, say and DO is supposed to reflect Christ and Him Crucified. EVERYTHING.
The Founders understood that.
Godly character was supposed to be the hallmark of the representatives we chose to be our standards in government.
We may not be electing a pope - but scripture is clear about the kind of personal requirements God sees as fit for office over a Godly people.
Electing someone with a record of everything antithetical to my faith and Conservative principles IS NOT reflecting Christ. It's surrendering to this evil world and it's standards and values.
If we refuse to be governed by God - then we will be ruled by the tyranny of men.
Here we are. The fruits of compartmentalizing our faith and principles for expedience as a nation and people.
I've repented of it - and will not do so again.
” Electing someone with a record of everything antithetical to my faith and Conservative principles IS NOT reflecting Christ. It’s surrendering to this evil world and it’s standards and values. “
I see how you arrived at your conclusion. You see faith as black & white, but leave out fallible, innately sinful acts
done by the human species. Strict adherence to your principles(at least as you have outlined them) would seem to necessarily preclude your ability to vote for anyone.
My minister once asked our congregation the following....
If you were harboring a dozen Jewish kids in your basement, and two of Hitlers legmen knocked on your door, and asked you if you were hiding any Jews, would you tell the truth,and turn them in?
If your choice is to vote for an admittedly sinful, flawed politician, in order to remove one you believe to be tantamount to a disciple of satan, would you vote for the lesser evil to remove the satanic politician?
Your steadfastness regarding christian principles is laudable. I just don’t see how you survived in this world
completely insulating yourself from human sinfulness. Jesus spent an inordinate amount of time with sinners.