Perfect Grammar
by Sandra Moats
Executive Director of New Hope For Adopted
International Kids
As we celebrate the birthday of our nation on the
4th of July, we
should also celebrate the fact that as individuals
we are able to vote
and have a say in the way our nation goes. We are
standing at a great
crossroads and the Christians can make a
difference; that is if they
will vote in the upcoming Presidential election.
Never has our nation
been so divided, endangered, and in need for
Christians to stand up
and take their place in voting.
Our presidential roots began with voting.
“Among the first things
the Jamestown voyagers did when they set up
English America’s first
permanent settlement was conduct an election.
Nearly as soon as they
landed—April 26, 1607, by their calendar—the
commanders of the 105
colonists unsealed a box containing a secret list
of seven men picked
in England to be the colony’s council and from
among who the
councilors were to pick a president.”
Christians are called to be salt in a nation.
Mt 5:13; Mr 9:50.
Voting is our fundamental right in the democracy
we live in. We are to
be the voice that calls our government to account.
We are supposed to
stand against the abuse of power. We must stand up
for what is right
when everybody else is heading in the opposite
direction.
Our country currently has in place many laws
that are ungodly and
would never be in place had Christians stood up
and took their voting
privilege and responsibility seriously. Because of
the fact that
Christians have laid down their great gift to vote
we have abortions
in this country. This is only one area, but it has
cost the lives of
58,586,256 babies since the Roe vs. Wade decision.
Christians will say
they don’t believe in abortion, but how many stood
up and went to vote
at every opportunity to stop it? It is easy to
complain after the
fact, but it is sin to not stand up during the
time to stop murder.
Abortion is murder.
Christians seem to be confused about voting
and many I have spoken
with say they will not vote in this upcoming
Presidential election. To
react that way is to give leaders with ungodly
principles an open
field. It is a Christian’s duty to vote more than
any other citizen.
Even if you don’t fully agree with the person
running, look at the
party stand in issues that will greatly affect our
way of life.
The Bible tells us in Proverbs 14:34 that
“Righteousness exalts a
nation.” As a Christian voting you have the
opportunity to bring forth
righteousness in your community, state and nation.
But if you shrink
from that responsibility the liberals and ungodly
will surely run
forth, such as happened already in our nation.
One well-known pastor encourages the
Christians in his church to
forget about voting. He even claims that it is a
form of idolatry. He
has tens of thousands of listeners on his pod
cast. But he also
preaches against many things that our government
does. That makes no
sense and I would question his leading as a
Shepherd guiding his
flock.
The Bibles says, “When the righteous rule, the
people rejoice
(and) when the wicked rule, the people groan.” Pr
29:2. I have heard
plenty of groaning from Christians, but when I ask
if they voted about
ungodly issues they give the excuse that their
vote doesn’t matter.
Yes, it does! Other than praying, which is first,
it is the only way
provided by our country to change ungodly
policies. Those policies can
change if the Christians will get out and vote.
And it needs to be the
whole of our company arising in our nation.
In a Presidential year there is usually
between 53 and 57 percent
of the people that vote. If a Christian votes this
year your vote is
almost twice as strong as during a
non-Presidential voting year. Over
the last four elections the Christian community
voting has dropped
over 40 percent. “In the 2012 Presidential
elections, 4 million
evangelical Christians did not vote who had voted
in the 2008
elections. In 2012, President Obama won the
popular vote by just over
3 million votes.”
Christians have many excuses why they have
neglected their voting
responsibility. Up to the 1840s about 100 percent
of the Christians
turned out in America to vote. They believed it
was their duty to God
to vote. In the last 30 years we have seen
Christians giving away
their right to vote, along with other rights that
they have been lazy
about addressing. This laziness has cost the
people in our nation in
the form of godly rights and freedoms. To vote is
still a freedom we
hold.
We have two problems that affect the Christian
community on
voting. One is a choice to not vote at all. Many
Christians that I am
currently hearing from righteously say they will
not vote for a
candidate that is not a godly choice, yet they
will not turn out to
vote when issues are present that need to be taken
care of. There is
something to think about above our like or dislike
for a candidate.
There are several parties that have taken a stance
against abortion,
same sex marriages and other important ungodly
issues that this
country has approved to practice. We need to grasp
every opportunity
to vote until these ungodly issues are turned
around. I believe that
it is still possible to turn this country around,
even though some
feel there is no chance, and our country is
doomed.
Our founding fathers would be appalled at the
lack of voting
action of Christians in this country. If we don’t
stand up during this
election we are going to see children in public
schools being taught
about sex in a filthy way. That is in the plan! We
are going to see 5
judges appointed that can and will make a vast
difference in our
freedoms. We could possibly see America disarmed,
just like Germany
was before the holocaust even as we face
terrorists that possibly
could surpass Hitler.
The last President made way for all our early
history of America
to be removed from the schools. Most of your
children in the first 8
grades don’t know anything about the godly
beginnings of our country.
The Common Core teaching is one of the most
destructive tools that
have been put into the minds of the American
children. Why would our
godly beginnings be removed from the classrooms?
Slowly your children
are being groomed for the New Age and liberality
beyond Sodom and
Gomorrah. And if the current push for Muslim
teaching continues to
enter our schools you will have another Britain
situation in our
country. We are not far behind them!
There is a chance if Christians will stand up
and take their
place. This Presidential vote is probably the most
important one in
the history of our country. Our country is split
and we need to bear
our weight on the righteous side more now than
ever before. It is
essential that Christians vote even if they don’t
approve of the
candidate, but at the very least go with the party
that holds to godly
freedoms. If you don’t vote we will be swept down
the liberal valley
that brings much harm to our country and your
children.
Christians in many countries are oppressed and
persecuted and
suffer under governments where they are powerless
to change. They hate
their faith and want to stop their voices. We are
fast approaching
that point in our country. If we do not stand up
in the midst of the
apathy and indifference found among Christians and
wake up, we will
find ourselves in the very same position.
Some say “To vote or not to vote”. I say, “For
whom should I
vote?” By not voting or by spoiling a ballot, one
does little more
than abdicating one’s right to be governed by
consent to the next
person. If the next person does the same, very
soon such “democracy”
becomes a minority of party bosses governing a
majority people.
Accordingly, for a democracy to remain functional,
the right to vote
must be conceivably viewed than more than a right.
It is arguably also
a responsibility and a duty – if only a moral duty
– to participate in
such democracy and to do so in an informed and
responsible manner.
Jason Brennan in The Ethics of Voting eloquently
elaborates upon the
importance of this duty and responsibility where
he contends that
“voting is morally significant” as it “changes the
quality, scope, and
kind of government”. “Christians stand up and take
your place! Vote!
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