Election thoughts for Christians who read this blog

The election is history, and who knows if we’ll be around for the 2016 edition. The whole process begins at the grass roots level, or used to, and to even influence the county committees is virtually impossible, or so I’m told by people who’ve tried to make a difference about who gets on the ballot. Even so, at the national level, it’s now all about technology and who has the right smart phone apps, the databases of who lives where and of course, the PAC money for internet ads. Here in Ohio where we get nothing but political ads for 6 months, it’s hard to believe that millions fewer voted this week than in 2008. Most of the loss in people believing voting mattered was Obama voters, but he won anyway because of the 18-29 year olds and the Hispanics.

But the big loss is the American people. If I vote in 2016, will there be anything or anyone I recognize? Will California belong to Mexico as LaRaza believes the whole southwest should? Will Louisiana secede? Will 75% of the people be dependent on government instead of 50%? Will we be like the Roman masses in pre-Christian days of Europe satisfied with games and goodies just as long as it is fun and someone else pays? Who knows, but the Democrats have been taken over by the ugliest big government philosophy--whether you think that’s socialism or progressivism or crony capitalism, it makes no difference. The Republican party as it exists now will probably expire in a gasping death, the party of Lincoln who desperately wanted to keep the country together, now seems to be factions of RINOs, Libertarians, Christians and patriot groups who barely speak to each other because the other isn‘t pure enough.

People who read my blog and Facebook entries seem evenly divided between believing I’m a modern day prophet calling people to wake up and see the evil of abortion and statism, and those who think I am evil and don’t represent anything they recognize as Christian or prophetic.

I choose to think that if you had lived in the 1850s you would have been helping with the underground railroad even if you had to be silent with your neighbors or at the market as you assisted fleeing slaves get to Canada. Even if you couldn’t look at a black woman in rags and see yourself, I hope you would have seen her humanity. I like to think you might have marched with the suffragettes, or tried to close down the saloons that were causing workmen to drink their pay and their children to starve. I choose to think that if you had lived in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, you would have told your children that they shouldn’t hate their Jewish classmates as told in school, or that you would have given money to help those whose businesses had been destroyed by the state, even as you grieved for sons and brothers lost in the battle for the Fatherland. I will continue to believe that if you had overheard plans to bomb a black church in Mississippi, you would have found a way to warn people, even if the sheriff was your friend and would not stop it.

Every generation faces social problems that can only be addressed by the clear word of the Lord. I have chosen abortion and those who support it, fund it, ignore it, and who try to silence me as the one I tackle. The pebble thrown in the pond has huge rings, and there is an all encompassing view of life and creation that over arches my views that goes far beyond the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973. I know my views are not popular or even common among most Christians today, and that some are extreme, like believing a child conceived in incest or rape still is a citizen and a child of God. But I am not going to be quiet. While I still have first amendment rights as an American citizen, I will speak out. I have God’s written and living word on which to stand. And You?