In the wake of the shocking headline that tens of millions of Christians are unlikely to vote in the 2024 election, there have been any number of articles urging Christians to vote. The articles’ reasons why they should range from patriotic duty to Christian duty to Biblical reasons. But there’s one overlooked reason why Christians absolutely need to turn out to vote: Influence.
Before we get there, let me address the two biggest reasons cited in that study from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University. Some 68% of respondents said they were uninterested in politics. Plato, who lived in a democracy some 300 years before Christ, said, “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” It is as true today as it was then.
But extrapolate that out to the church. “One of the penalties for Christians refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by atheists.”
Christians in particular, but voters in general, fail to remember that elections mean that you are giving someone else legal authority over your life. That includes your family, your business, and even your church.
The Biden-Harris administration started its rule using COVID as the excuse to shut businesses and churches and use social media to shut up anyone who disagreed with their mandates or questioned the science. That was how they started. Throughout their administration they used to FBI and DoJ to spy on school board meetings and arrest Christians who didn’t like woke teachers pushing pornography and transgenderism on their children.
By the end, they went even further. Just months ago, they rewrote Title IX to remove protections for women and girls in favor of biological males pretending to be women or girls. Whatever and wherever a female could go and do the Biden-Harris administration opened to biological males. Participation in sports, locker rooms, bathrooms, showers, dormitories… they were not only open to males, but women also no longer have the right to say no. And it isn’t just in education, but those rules will roll over into the business environment. Do you honestly think they won’t try to force that on churches as well?
Worse, and in case you think they don’t mean it, Biden-Harris and elected Democrats as a whole have adopted an ideology that would physically remove children from parents who won’t agree to mutilating surgeries. In other words, they will take children away from parents who won’t let the state tell them how to raise their children and tell them what they ought to believe on gender. This has already happened. Children have already been taken away from parents who said no and stood up to this extreme ideology.
I Spy Radio Show, airing on seven AM radio stations around Oregon, which has become the Wuhan Lab of leftist policies. He holds an MBA and is all but dissertation in his Doctor of Business Administration, which focuses on rebuilding trust once broken.
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