Palin

Posted by Admin in Articles on Dec 28th, 2009 | no responses

It was interesting to watch the RNC VP candidate tear it up the other night in contrast to DNC Convention I watched last week. What is also interesting is to watch people get excited over all that is going on. Most think this country is electing a president (and a VP), which is true but not all the truth. Religious people are very concerned about the election so far; they had been painted out of the election before the convention. In February, James Dobson practically swore he would not vote for McCain but has flip-flopped in recent weeks, just like Obama. What is more interesting, religious people are getting cranked up over Palin, a candidate religious conservatives have gone gaga over. The most interesting detail is that she is in the second seat, in other words an appendage in the prospective administration…

Palin is merely window dressing. McCain is still a liberal, left of Kennedy in the 1960s. It is true that Palin may see the driver’s seat at McCain’s age. Yet, this is not what the political system is betting on. They are betting the voting public will go along with the offering that is being made. It certainly is a choice, unmasked Socialism in Obama and more moderate Liberalism in McCain, but Liberalism indeed cloaked by a religious conservative. Folks this is no choice. It is an ambush. The political system is playing all odds against each other to see how little voters will settle for.

There is no winner in this situation. People who say they follow Christ ought to really follow Him and not help perpetuate a system that continually offers more compromised, lesser of two evils. We ought to quit hoping to postpone ultimate “evil” by by voting in one who is less evil. That is like settling for a demon over and against the devil himself. Where in scripture do you find an admonition first of all to make a choice under these circumstances? Secondly, where in scripture do you find support for considering yourself, as a follower of Christ, to be part of the society of mere men who have not been regenerated? And thirdly, is the only form of presenting what you believe to the world have to be done through a political platform?

I am glad Christ was not like the modern church person. I am glad He was an alternative to the political left and right of His day. I am glad that His kingdom is not of this world, so that the kingdoms of this world would be upstaged and made insignificant.

I am however, very saddened that believers today think, unscripturally I might add, that their place is to help perpetrate a kingdom of the world while they deny and abdicate their duty and unadulterated service to the Kingdom of the God they claim to follow.

America will continue to careen downhill and off a cliff until either it is too late or until the supposed believers within it recognize their adulterous affair with the state and repent, so the unregenerate can see their real condition and also repent. Partisan politics is not mightier than the alternative Christ was in His time on earth and His kingdom still is. God is not saying “Vote” for McCain. Politics has put in your head that it would be best to vote for McCain as the country continues to lumber towards totalitarianism.

America may be the greatest empire to grace the planet in man’s efforts to prove God wrong; that man can be good without Him… America does not know God, how could they? Church people, most of them, do not know God and they say they are in the business of representing Him. Is America anywhere close to competing with the Kingdom of God? If not why are you excited or worried about this election?

This election is not so much about choosing a president than it is about casting another vote for your real god.

Sincerely,

Timothy L. Price

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