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Lets be honest, how did voting a Christian named George Bush turn out for America 8 yrs later. Even though i would prefer a believer to be in office, i dont think an atheist president would make a difference now a days as they are all bought with the right price: just say what you wanna hear to get your vote.
If you are a Christian and had to make a choice between voting for a Buddhist or an Atheist, who would you choose?
Neither. If Jesus Christ isn't on the ballot I am not voting. You guys can pick who you want, I'll try my best to follow the laws passed, but this place isn't for me. I am just passing through.
By the way, when Israel wanted a king God felt he was rejected. Therefore I only want Jesus as my King. He is the king of kings and the lord of lords and I shall never again vote for someone else to rule over me.
Don't get me wrong, I've voted for the "less evil" as a Christian a few times. However, voting for the less evil is still voting for evil. Since this world is not my home I am no longer worried about it.
Neither. If Jesus Christ isn't on the ballot I am not voting. You guys can pick who you want, I'll try my best to follow the laws passed, but this place isn't for me. I am just passing through.
By the way, when Israel wanted a king God felt he was rejected. Therefore I only want Jesus as my King. He is the king of kings and the lord of lords and I shall never again vote for someone else to rule over me.
Don't get me wrong, I've voted for the "less evil" as a Christian a few times. However, voting for the less evil is still voting for evil. Since this world is not my home I am no longer worried about it.
Oh my... intellectually divorced from the necessities of daily life: who will pay for the new sewage line extension, or what about a discussion of Federal funding for the proposed high speed train from NYC to Orlando, or what about negotiations with Europe regarding their failing currency issues?
Hardly something of a day-to-day nature that the antique bible could ever hope to provide rational answers for. But perhaps... it would be used to murder unwanted children or enslave those who disagree with it's tainted and antiquated writings that only applied to a tiny sliver of the actual physical world, which is itself a nano-part of the Universe as a whole.
Sure; go with that historic solution! BTW, such a fantasy country would begin to completely fail within a week or less... Absolute religious bedlam, murders in the streets, wars for who gets the best territories, based on some ambiguous interpretation of one version of that contradictory old book. Wow!
Fact: (as per our Constitution, btw...) there should be absolutely no "taint" of religion in the running of this country. Bush's "faith-based projects" only incensed and enraged the immediately disenfranchised social elements, and ensured that those of us who see the world without the taint and fog of religious overtones also get to witness the fouling of the administrative nest, as it were. Example: The incredibly inane invasion of Iraq because why again? Oh yeah: God told George to do it. Even his father went nutzo over that one..... but kept to himself what a cooko-kid he'd raised...
If you are a Christian and had to make a choice between voting for a Buddhist or an Atheist, who would you choose?
Who says those things are mutually exclusive?
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Originally Posted by cowdog
Neither. If Jesus Christ isn't on the ballot I am not voting. You guys can pick who you want, I'll try my best to follow the laws passed, but this place isn't for me. I am just passing through.
Well Jesus has never run for office as far as I can tell, so I take it you've never voted. And besides, it's very possible, if not likely, a non-Christian candidate can be more "Christ-like" and do more good than a Christian one.
Is the premise behind this thread that Christians will only vote for a devout Christian?
I suspect that most people vote based on either a few specific political items, or a conglomerate of all... and although an individuals position politically may be influenced by their faith, that doesn't mean a candidate must share that faith, to have a like political position.
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