I'm so very glad we don't live in a democracy... and re: the new Christian left

You know why I'm glad the US isn't a democracy? Because then we'd have a bunch of ignorant, armchair wannabe politicians running a show they know nothing about. I'm glad I have the power to elect a set of values to do the hard work of research and decision-making.

That said, that's not the point of this post.

When I was a kid, if you were a Christian, you were a Rush Limbaugh listening, James Dobson loving, pro-life, party line Republican.

Or at least close to it.

Now days, it seems it's the opposite, especially with young people. Young Christians seem bent on political liberalism. And at least part of the reason for that is that they're rebelling against the excesses of older Christians who often subjugated Scripture to political agenda - often speaking without love for the opposing side.

News flash: those of you in this 'movement' - you're doing the same thing. And stop pretending you're the little minority doing the right thing in complaining against this big majority of old mean Christians who hate poor people. Seriously. Get over yourselves. You're a result of reactionary groupthink.

When I was in seminary, I had a crisis. Should I be against 'gay marriage?' (I mean in a legal sense. Of course if anyone in the church did that we'd discipline them and excommunicate them if necessary.)

But what about the laws of the land? Should they prevent 'gay marriage?'

This resulted in a search of what the Scriptures said about governments and how we as God's people are to interact with such institutions.

Now, you might, and rightly, say, that there was no representative government in those days! Well, that's sort of true. But so what? Do we believe the Scripture is sufficient for every good work or not? That means it will provide us a framework through which to think about how we interact with government - about how we vote and who we vote for even.

And quite frankly, I think it's quite stupid to assume one knows what that framework is unless one has studied it.

And a greater weight of responsibility lies on the pastors in God's Church to make sure his sheep know what that framework is.

And as a closing thought - it makes me sick to see how Christians are swayed by smooth talking, content lacking, emotion-grabbing politicians. But hey, the same is true of a lot of pastors that are popular today. Guess it shouldn't be that surprising.