IS IT A SIN TO VOTE FOR OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS? [View all]

[nadinbrzezinski]

With the recent proclamation of a Green Bay bishop that Christians who vote for someone supporting the gay or abortion agenda is putting their soul in jeopardy, there's been an increase in the amount of email in my inbox asking my take on whether it is a sin for Christians to be Democrats.  I think a lot of people assume this is a difficult subject for me to address.  I hate to disappoint them, but it's not.

I recently read an article from a self-proclaimed "Christian Democrat" explaining why they would be voting for Obama, and to a larger degree, supporting the Democratic Party.  I am intentionally not linking to the original article for a reason.  The article was full of the very kind of "fine-sounding arguments" that Paul warns us in Colossians to be on guard against.  Given the sorry state of biblical Christianity in America, I know that several of these arguments could easily ensnare and trap a lot of confused Christians -- and I won't willfully provide a potential stumbling block to any believer.

It should be an axiom for Christ followers that while our faith should inform our politics, our politics should never inform our faith. But this particular author, as is often the case with Christian Democrats, has made an a priori commitment to supporting the Democrats and then seeks to find faith-based reasons to justify it. But here's the uncomfortable truth such individuals must confront: while it's certainly true that not every Republican is worthy of our support as Christians, any individual who runs under a platform that justifies the legal slaughter of innocent life made in the image of God is an unacceptable choice. Period.


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http://onenewsnow.com//perspectives/peter-heck/2012/10/29/is-it-a-sin-to-vote-for-obama-and-the-democrats

Yup, I am a sharing person.

Problem is people believe this shit.