A Christian Vote - Nah, Let's Move On

I was going to finish up with reasons why an Obama vote would not be a Christian vote, but what is the point? I would list his associations, including terrorists. They don't care. That information has been out there for months. Listing it again isn't going to help.

I could compare his economic policies to that of Jesus and the apostles. What? There is not comparison? That's my point.

Jesus said to help the poor. He did. The apostles did. How many times did Jesus or the apostles petition the Roman government to institute social programs? ...crickets chirping, crickets chirping... They never did.

How many times did Jesus or the apostles rant and rave that some people had too much money, that it should be taken from them and redistributed? ...crickets chirping, crickets chirping... That's right, they never did.

Instead, they hit the streets. The got together, pooled their resources. Made a difference. We cry, "separation of Church and State, separation of Church and State, " yet we want to carry out the Christian commission through the government, just like Jesus did (aahhhhhmmmmm).

Never mind that the top 25% of wage earners in this country pay more than 80% of the Federal Income Tax collected. It is honest to say that the poor (who don't even pay taxes in this country, 40% of Americans don't even pay taxes) are unfairly burdened. It is totally rational to suggest that we should raise certain tax brackets to potentially over 50%. Imagine that, some people want to TAKE 50% of another persons income. Yep, just like Jesus did...no wait, Jesus never did that. It's called stealing.

So what do we do? I have ranted and raved over the fact that people don't care. I have complained and whined that ignorance and apathy are dragging the greatest country ever formed right off the cliff. Truth applies only if it fits the agenda. A huge part of the population is so invested in a personality that they are willing to call the world flat again with a straight face.
Like a drug addict who cannot get help until he admits he has a problem. I don't know how to help these that, rather than seek the truth, wake up to form it to their needs.

Consider my last post where I said that Obama views the Constitution as a rough draft, a literary work in need of fixing. Since it was adopted, political scientists and historians have marveled at its mastery. Surely, human beings could not have anticipated all the characteristics of human nature, accounted for the many possibilities and variables, foreseen the changing times, and still composed a rule of law that would breathe and grow to protect freedoms, even those in the age of horse-and-buggies, those in the age of the telegraph, and those in the age of the internet.

Why did it capture their attention? It did so because they were educated and understood human history and government. Instead of sitting in front of the TV every night watching sitcoms, they read and studied. They new that the American Constitution was unlike anything ever crafted before.

When one reads the history of the Founding Fathers, their works, it becomes quickly apparent that they had a deep respect and genuine relationship with their Creator. They were deeply religious men. Time and time again, history records their relentlessness efforts daily seeking God's guidance, blessings, and protection.

The Constitution is not "God-inspired", only the Bible was "God-inspired" (see comment from previous post)? So Rick Warren wrote a Purpose Driven Life of his own device, no "inspiration" from God? It sold millions of copies, changed millions of lives all because of Rick Warren, no help from God?

C.S. Lewis. The Screwtape Letters. Mere Christianity. The Great Divorce. Literary works that have influenced millions of Christians. Clive Staples did this on his own, huh? No help from God? He didn't have any inspiration from God?

John Bunyan woke up one day and said, "I think I'll write a book. I'll call it The Pilgrim's Progress. It will be considered one of the classic Christian allegorical works of all time. I hope I can do it all by myself..."

A little obsessive aren't I? That is my point. I make an entry about the fact that Obama wants to edit what many great scholars consider the greatest framework every composed for a government, that considering the background of the authors, God had to have a hand in it and this is the response I get, "The Bible is the only God-inspired work, nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah..."

What does one do? The comment's author knows that I don't place the Constitution on the same plane as the Holy Scriptures, that I was saying that since these men sought God's guidance, He provided it and Obama wants to change it (I even included references). Normally, I would have let such a comment through and then ignored it for its absurdity. I didn't because it represents a majority of our country.

So many, so many are so emotionally and personally attached to a politician, a political party, etc. that they cannot see straight. Take an intellectual approach, lay out the facts that don't fit their template and watch the logical fallacies fly. Ad Hominem: "Well your a ...." Straw Man: "Well you don't care...You think..." Fallacy of Composition: "The Bible is the only God-inspired work". All elements of sound argument and reason fly out the window. Try to have an intelligent discussion and one would think that you insulted their mother. I have even had discussions where individuals debate facts that are as true as I am bald.

Besides continuing the series, "The World Is Crazy: Now What?", where I am cataloging Biblical instances where similar questions where asked and how God answered, I will spend time "educating". Apparently, the public schools are failing. What am I talking about? My father is a retired teacher, my mother still teaches, my brother is about to graduate and be a teacher, and I studied to be a music teacher. Ask them all, the public schools have failed!!!

Rush Limbaugh says that ignorance is the most expensive commodity in this country. Never has this rung truer than in this election. When tomorrow is done, Barack Obama will have been elected as the 44th President of the United States. He will have done so because a majority of this country looks to him, needs him to save them, to fix their lives, to fix their incomes, to make things right. This is not done by a politician.