Re: David Limbaugh at UNCW

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From: "Innovatia" <dennis@innovatia.com>
To: "ASA Listserver" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: David Limbaugh at UNCW

> Moorad,
>
>> The attitude you indicate by Christians is why the USA is today the world
> capital of pornography, students can't pray in school, marriage is an
> ambiguous term, abortion is the law of the land, etc. Christians have to
> wake up and do God's work, the best you can, with your vote.
>>
> I don't think we do God's work by voting. I don't see any commendation of
> voting in scripture, and for good reason. It's not God's way for humans to
> make collective decisions. Republics/democracies are not God's idea of how
> we should be organized. (See Mark Ludwig's downloadable book, The Third
> Paradigm, for more on this, at www.ameaglepubs.com) As Justyn Martyr said:
> "Opinions should be weighed, not counted."
>
> Voting for president means little. Nobody even can run for president
> unless
> they already are approved by the Money Power. No outsiders get in unless
> they go along unwittingly, as did Reagan. A vote for either candidate is a
> vote for the Money Power, for the rulers of evil behind the scenes. It is
> because American Christians do not know what is going on in terms of power
> and the world-system in our time that they have not been an effective
> influence for God in American society.

    The First Lesson in the lectionary for this coming Sunday, Jeremiah
29:1, 4-7, is relevant here. The Jews taken into exile in Babylon are to
pray, not for the destruction of Babylon but for its welfare. Even if we
feel alienated from the country we live in for various reasons we should
pray for its welfare and do whatever we can to be God's instruments toward
that end. The vote of each individual may count for little but the non-vote
of each individual counts zero.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Mon Oct 4 20:05:57 2004