Election 2006: Analizing Evangelical Christians?
In a post that I wrote one month ago today, I talked about a conference I went to involving values voters and the issues that matter to them. In that post I defined a values voter as follows:
"As I see it these voters are indiviuals who vote based upon canidates that aspouse the same values that these voters hold dear, mainly the Right to Life of an unborn child, the defining of marriage in the traditional sense of one man, one woman, and Religious Liberty."
I still stand by what I wrote then, be there no doubt of that, as I frimly believe that the Almighty does have something to say about issues that have become "hot button issues" in recent years.
What brings me to today however is the fact that there have been some articles lately that have been published that seek to take these voters (Evangelical Christians specifically) and figure out what makes them tick, to try and predict what the turn out is doing to be two weeks from today. The particular article I am referring to is within the pages of one of the latest editions of Time magizine. The article talks about what the GOP is doing to "court" us as it were and get us to the polls, not to mention discussing the implications of the Mark Foley scandal and other Republican woes that have surfaced.
I'm not baffled as to why in the last six years Christians have all of the sudden come to the forefront politically as if we're some new breed of constituency; those that call themselves followers of Jesus Christ have always been here. The reason we've come out of the wood work within the last few years is simple - decisions are being made by the government of the United States on key issues, decisions that followers of Christ know are wrong because they go against what is written in the Scriptures. Not only is this the case, but the knowledge that the Founding Fathers set the country up to operate in a certian manner, a manner that is now being violated by the leviathan of big government, a manner that is supposedc to respect all religions, not attack Christianity as it tends to do through court decisions.
Canidates and the Media want an answer, and I have one for them: stand up for what is Right and not what is politically expiedent or popular.
Dr. Ben Rush (one of the prominent Founding Fathers we no longer hear of) said it best in a letter he wrote. In this letter there response by John Adam's reply of "Yes if we fear God and repent of our sins" to Rush's question of how they would fare in conflict against Britian. In light of that question and response Rush wrote the following:
"This anecdote, I hope, will teach my boys that it is not necessary to disbelieve the tennats of Christianity or to renounce morality in order to rise to the highest ranks of political usefulness or fame"
If only such an idea were wider spread and understood, there would be no such need by the media to figure Christians out, they'd already know.
"As I see it these voters are indiviuals who vote based upon canidates that aspouse the same values that these voters hold dear, mainly the Right to Life of an unborn child, the defining of marriage in the traditional sense of one man, one woman, and Religious Liberty."
I still stand by what I wrote then, be there no doubt of that, as I frimly believe that the Almighty does have something to say about issues that have become "hot button issues" in recent years.
What brings me to today however is the fact that there have been some articles lately that have been published that seek to take these voters (Evangelical Christians specifically) and figure out what makes them tick, to try and predict what the turn out is doing to be two weeks from today. The particular article I am referring to is within the pages of one of the latest editions of Time magizine. The article talks about what the GOP is doing to "court" us as it were and get us to the polls, not to mention discussing the implications of the Mark Foley scandal and other Republican woes that have surfaced.
I'm not baffled as to why in the last six years Christians have all of the sudden come to the forefront politically as if we're some new breed of constituency; those that call themselves followers of Jesus Christ have always been here. The reason we've come out of the wood work within the last few years is simple - decisions are being made by the government of the United States on key issues, decisions that followers of Christ know are wrong because they go against what is written in the Scriptures. Not only is this the case, but the knowledge that the Founding Fathers set the country up to operate in a certian manner, a manner that is now being violated by the leviathan of big government, a manner that is supposedc to respect all religions, not attack Christianity as it tends to do through court decisions.
Canidates and the Media want an answer, and I have one for them: stand up for what is Right and not what is politically expiedent or popular.
Dr. Ben Rush (one of the prominent Founding Fathers we no longer hear of) said it best in a letter he wrote. In this letter there response by John Adam's reply of "Yes if we fear God and repent of our sins" to Rush's question of how they would fare in conflict against Britian. In light of that question and response Rush wrote the following:
"This anecdote, I hope, will teach my boys that it is not necessary to disbelieve the tennats of Christianity or to renounce morality in order to rise to the highest ranks of political usefulness or fame"
If only such an idea were wider spread and understood, there would be no such need by the media to figure Christians out, they'd already know.
posted by A. R. Welty at 7:06 PM
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