It’s pretty alarming to find out that millions of Christians, especially Evangelical Christians, are not going to vote. People who listen to the Biblical commands to help the poor and to be a good neighbor, should not turn their backs on God’s expectations of His people to be fully involved in all aspects of life.

There’s the old joke about the God-fearing man caught in a flood. His neighbors offered him a ride out during an evacuation, but he turns them down saying “God will provide for me.” As the water rises, he retreats to the second floor. A rowboat comes by his window and offers to rescue him. But, again, he refuses saying “God will provide for me.” They leave and yet the waters still rise. Now the man is on his roof and a helicopter comes by and lowers a harness. Yet he refuses to leave saying “God will provide for me.”

He is swept away from his roof and drowns.

He now finds himself in heaven at the feet of God. He is sorely disappointed asking God, “Lord! I loved you and trusted you and you did not provide!”

God responds, “I sent you a car, a rowboat, and a helicopter. What more could you want?” /end

That certainly goes a long way to explaining why millions of Christians are sitting on their hands rather than being actively involved in a system of self-governance that Founding Father John Adams described:

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Starting at 6:09 above: “… any other our founding fathers assumed that the Christians would Steward, they would keep the Republic, they would uh take it seriously enough to defend a nation that was built off of judeo-christian worldview values – the Bible. Unlike any other place on Earth this country is worth fire for, and for crying out loud, uh you can’t do it in North Korea. You don’t have a constitutional republic there. You can’t do it in Saudi Arabia. But you can do it in America. And instead of us protecting and defending it and advancing it, Christians have become lazy apathetic and they’ve said things like this … oh I don’t get involved in politics which is ridiculous. Every time you fill up your gas tank in California you’re dealing with politics per gallon … ”

I urge you to watch the whole interview between Dennis Prager (practicing Jew) and Pastor Jack Hibbs. Christians may have several reasons for not voting — from dislike of both candidates to belief that “God will provide”. But Faith, dear Bible follower, isn’t just a noun. It’s a verb.

Just as a person’s body that does not have a spirit is dead, so faith that does nothing is dead! ~~ James 2:26

And beware, too, that when you do nothing, you leave room for people like this to further browbeat Christians to stay away from the voting booth.

VCG, as The New York Times described them in 2018, is “a group of progressive Christians” whose “goal is to urge Christians to vote for Democrats and counter Trump administration policies that oppose their religious beliefs – especially on immigration, health care, and poverty.” And just to demonstrate how far left they are, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) has previously served in an “informal” advisory role for the group.

Not surprisingly, VCG is all-in on the “women’s rights are under attack” narrative, too, dropping this Julia Roberts-narrated special interest ad actually trying to make it sound like women only have “one place in America” left where “they still have the right to choose” – the ballot box. Further, the ad implies that women nationwide would be taking risks by voting differently than their husbands in the presidential election, something that is patently absurd.

In the voting booth, women still have the right to choose.

Thank you to Julia Roberts for helping us make the choice clear – November 5th, let’s all choose a new path forward.#progressive #progressivechristianity #voteblue #harris2024 #prowomen #evangelicalsforharris pic.twitter.com/fchO3yj1na

— Vote Common Good (@VoteCommon) October 28, 2024

Wow. Could these “Progressive Christians” (oxymoron, I know) condescend any more? Yes, of course they could — they could have had those women in robes from The Handmaid’s Tale.

Democrats are busy lecturing men on how toxic and woman-hating they are if they don’t vote for Potemkin Kamala and women are being told if they vote for her they gotta keep it secret or else their hubbies will beat them.

And, frankly, to pretend that women’s rights hinge on making sure there is no limit on abortion – legal through all nine months of fetal gestation and even for minor females without parental involvement (you know, like the bill Tampon Walz signed into law) – is the only thing between women as free citizens and being sent to breeder camps is beyond just insulting. It is evil.

The Left has tried shaming Christians into not voting for decades. And for the last nine years we’ve heard the drumbeat that No Real Christian could vote for Trump because he’s (checks notes), divorced, philanderer, mistreats women … yadda yadda yadda.

Old Christian bumpersticker: “Christians are not perfect, just saved.” And yet the steady drumbeat of “How could you!” from people who don’t blink twice at the warts on their candidates should make people who know their Bible laugh in the face of the fake pearl clutchers. The Bible (and life) is full of flawed people who do noble things. God has a tendency to choose to work through flawed individuals.

If you’re standing on roof with water threatening to wash you away, you shouldn’t care if the guy or gal piloting the helicopter once cheated on their spouse. Grab that harness.

And get thee to the polls, Christians. Be a good Steward of this nation.

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