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What We Really Want

Despite the rumors, evangelicals will not be on the sidelines this election.

A Christianity Today editorial | posted 1/15/2008 08:38AM

In the past two presidential races, evangelical voters have given a margin of victory to President Bush, and now pollsters and experts are handicapping the candidates to predict who will get the evangelical ...

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Tracy

Posted: January 22, 2008 11:53 AM


There are many opinions but one word of god!

Sherrey Moore

Posted: January 17, 2008 4:05 PM

I agree to a certain extent. However, I am not understanding why you are not backing one of your own that is running, for instance Gov. Huckabee. I am shocked at the Baptist Convention and also at Pat Robertson for backing a candidate that isn't altogether for right to life. What is wrong with the Baptists. If we don't back our own then who is???????? Please help me to understand this. Jerry Falwell himself was deep in politics. I wish he was still here.

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Sage	Posted: January 15, 2008 8:34 PM


Very well said...just wish you could have expounded on it a bit more :)

Richard Lee

Posted: January 15, 2008 8:29 PM

Christians have moved to the left in such a matter that I deplore. For instance, my alma mater Fuller Seminary, a bastion of CT writers, has pushed leftist ideology via Glen Stasson's classes. It is as though to be truly an evangelical Christian is to disarm the country, open the public coffers, set criminals free, and go globalist. Here is what my answers are to the above set posed to readers: What is your plan for Iraq and the Middle East? Get out. What would you do to stop the genocide in Darfur? Nothing, it's none of our business. On expanding religious freedom worldwide? Practice it here. On reducing abortion and to protecting innocent life in general? Tell people to stop fornicating, and execute murderers. How would you secure our borders against terrorists? Build a huge fence. As for permitting more refugees to resettle here-NO WAY! How would I promote equal economic opportunity? Promote more capitalism. Protecting the environment? It can protect itself, as it has for eons.

JohnW

Posted: January 15, 2008 7:22 PM


I agree that evangelicals should not be considered a voting block-they shouldn't be, but maybe they are. Karl Rove certainly thought he could count on the evangelical vote during the 2004 and 2006 elections and he wasn't disappointed.

Patrick Gann

Posted: January 15, 2008 5:35 PM


Good article. I agree 100% with Marianne. The evangelical political "agenda" was shown well in scenes of the documentary "Jesus Camp," which included statements from Ted Haggard, who appeared rather shifty in the film (this was before his being exposed, of course). Now then, if I may voice my opinion: RON PAUL in 2008!

Stan Baldwin

Posted: January 15, 2008 4:04 PM


Ah! There is hope after all. Thanks for the call for evangelicals to be truly Christian.

Ted Voth Jr

Posted: January 15, 2008 2:55 PM

The modern Western shepherd drives his sheep with dogs, by fear. If you remember the movie Babe you remember how the sheep hated and feared the dogs. The older shepherd, the shepherd of the Middle East, leads his sheep. They follow him because they love and trust him. This is the way our Lord shepherds us. As to fear? He hasn't given us the spirit of slavery again to fear, but the Spirit of Adoption, of Sonship, by Whom we cry out 'Abba, Father!' ( A better translation of Abba is 'Daddy!') Our Lord does not want us to be afraid, to be frightened, to live in fear of anyone or anything, any creature. God does not want His People to be driven by the dogs of fear. not even when we vote. Our concern for Justice should derive from the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms- Read Psalm 82… And the Gospels, where Jesus our Lord denounces injustice, particularly in the very wealthy, very religious Pharisees. 'Keep busy', He said, 'till I get back'

Lindy Scott

Posted: January 15, 2008 1:49 PM


This is one of the best CT editorials I have seen in a long time. Wouldn't it be very good if the NAE "For the Health of the Nation" document were studied in an adult Sunday School class in every local church? I endorse the challenge that CT has given us.

Caroline

Posted: January 15, 2008 1:42 PM


Following a candidate for substantive reasons, like support for those in humanitarian crisises, refugee admissions, and foreign policy is a direction I'd be eager to see more Americans take. I really appreciate Deborah's comment, and admire the way she is raising her children. Thank you for a well thought-out article.

Turboman

Posted: January 15, 2008 1:32 PM


Your article effectively outlines what I hope is intuitive to many Christians--uh, er evangelicals.

Jason C

Posted: January 15, 2008 12:22 PM

The world has grown utterly sick and tired of terrible US meddling in international affairs on the basis of non-Christian and anti-Christian corporatistic and lobbyistic pressures. The Founding Fathers recognised the dangers of this approach and warned against it, knowing only too well that neither people of other countries nor the American people would stand to benefit from this. Only international pressure will stop the present devatating trend of warmaking on the basis of lies that the present government has been following. To the extent that lobbyists now dictate policy to the government, US democracy has become a farce.

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