Is voting Democrat an evil act in God’s eyes? That question rose from a recent Sunday-school lesson on 1 Kings 21, where King Ahab wanted Naboth’s vineyard, but Naboth would not sell. Then without the king’s participation, Queen Jezebel arranged a plot to kill Naboth. Then she took possession of his vineyard and gave it to the king who willingly accepted it. Though the murder and the initial taking of the land were done by the queen, God held Ahab as responsible as Jezebel for both.
The question raised is a most serious question, especially for those who seek to follow Jesus. Before getting into that, consider what this narrative teaches about the nature of God and His views toward humanity, both as individuals and as civilizations.
The God of the Bible is a God of justice. God values people as individuals, not simply as a collective. Godly order includes individual property ownership and even a king has no right to someone else’s property. While a person’s property includes material property, it also clearly includes earnings, creations, designs, and even our conscience that guides how we live. Taking a human life is not only an act against the person, but it is an act against God, the creator, and redeemer of all human life.
Like so often with teaching on Biblical narratives that relate to government, this lesson missed important applications for citizens in a nation where citizens are part of the government.
Nations are setup by God and are under God; America is no exception. American governing authority is derived from the people, not from a king. As such, those we elect are agents we empower to carry out the governing tasks.
As seen with Ahab, God does not give a pass for the government to commit evil acts. Neither does He to those who empower government, bad actors. Yet every election, politicians who advocate for policies that embrace what God calls evil are elected to public offices by the votes, or lack of voting, of millions of Americans who claim to be God-followers.
The cost of this neglect is incomprehensible as adult Americans have thrown aside self-governance and sought self-indulgence. Among other evils, over 60 million defenseless pre-born Americans have been legally murdered while future generations have been shackled with staggering debt. Seduced by promises that government will make life easier, tens of millions of Americans willingly vote thieves and murderers into public offices throughout our nation.
How can we be surprised when so often it feels like a choice between evils? The road to better options requires that we study our candidate options, including the political party that winning will empower. A party is simply a vehicle; who controls the vehicle and where they drive it is of utmost importance.
While human rule will never deliver utopia, and candidates that embrace evil ideas can be found in any political party, it is the ideas presented in and through party platforms, conventions, and top candidates that make clear the acts that our vote will empower.
Today’s Democratic Party completely rejects Biblical teaching on morality and human nature – that man’s fallen nature cannot handle great power. Rather, it embraces pagan ideas, including the state being supreme. As such they work to shift power (responsibility and control) away from the smaller governing spheres of individual, family, church, community, etc. to higher and higher governing levels, including unaccountable international bodies.
The Democratic Party platforms and actions present an agenda that includes:
- Abortion with no limits.
- Doctor-assisted suicide for those deemed as not worthy of normal legal protections.
- Rejecting of God’s design of marriage and creation of male and female, thus exploiting and indeed creating sexual and gender confusion.
- Destructive life-altering hormone and surgical procedures in children of all ages.
- Creating destabilizing unrest and divisions among Americans, with current efforts dividing by wealth, skin color, gender and sexuality.
- Disenfranchising legal voters through weakening voting laws
- Greater state control of individual healthcare decisions.
- Suppressing the Christian-informed conscience.
- Producing godless citizens through public schools where children are essentially drafted into the front lines of their war against God.
So while there are politicians of every party that we must stand against, how can voting to empower such evil not put one in a place very much like Ahab? It would be a grave mistake to pretend that the God who called Ahab to account for the evil he empowered would overlook evil we empower with our votes and other support.
Ahab repented and God relented. Indeed, God is a God of mercy, but God’s mercy was a response to Ahab’s repentant heart. While Jesus did not condemn the woman caught in adultery, he did say: “go and sin no more.” A pathway for a new beginning is both unique and core to Christianity. Only those who do not have faith in the work of Jesus to completely cover their past are trapped in their past.
While some may claim that this column advocates for a theocracy, a theocracy goes much further than using a religious book as a guide for morality and good governing practices. A theocracy dictates religious beliefs and practices. The fact is it is the Democratic Party that is all too eager to force and coerce its pagan beliefs and practices on the entire population.
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This article is very accurate. Nothing about the Democrat party platform is in line with the Catholic Church’s teachings. It is a party of immorality, hate, and division and is blatantly anti-Christian. Each person will be held accountable for how he exercised his right to vote. The millions of lives lost to abortion will not be forgotten.
The current Democrat Party is now fully socialist and admittedly anti-American. Yes, it is an evil entity – and voting for any Democrat is an act of evil.
you are realy disgustingly sick
And you are rapidly losing your “useful idiot” status.
Amen, Brother John!!
Eric and your buddy Johnny here and that Progfascist from the Future… you need to do more than just call someone sick if you want to raise the level of debate as I am encouraging you guys to do.
I could just say to every comment you have and have in the past, that your mother is a communist whore. I did so because the level of your comments warrants nothing more than that. They are not interesting. They add nothing. They are the same as mine… ok mine is more funny. But just emotional…
So why don’t you and Johnny here do something more?
Job report was great today for Dementia Joe.. Could he drop below 38 percent approval?
Wait for the shortages this winter! They say they are coming.
I always encourage posters to simply ignore these troll posts. They need the oxygen of attention to survive. Ignore them.
Stoner, Sometime saying less days more. This is one of those cases. Brother John has a knack for cutting to the heart of the matter, after all.
When a piece warrants my comment, I will provide comment. This one simply does not.
you are a useless ignorant loudmouth
YES! to the question in the title.
AMEN! to the entire article.
What does God have to do with it? Everything you said deals with the past. The Book of Revelation is the future. The present reveals not even the purported “most religious” are worthy of redemption.
The Catholic Church provides for automatic excommunication for any Catholic who votes for politicians who support abortion, regardless of party affiliation. Democrat and Republican (former) Catholic politicians are automatically excommunicated if they vote for abortion laws. All of them, voters and pols, are in for one Hell of a surprise when they stand before Him to receive their just punishment. Unless they repent of their sin, seek absolution and reinstatement into the church, they will burn in Hell for all eternity.
stop pretending you know what God will do……it is obnoxious
Is putting a political party ahead of principle and voting for her candidates no matter what an act of evil? I’d argue it is regardless of which party it may be.
I’ll add one more to your list: Creating a global vaccine infrastructure to serve as the platform for distributing the future Mark of the Beast, the taking of which is an unforgivable sin.
mark of the beast? Good God. The vaccine will soon be required, as it should be
Spoken like the true totalitarian socialist you are. You have just advocated or the reintroduction of slavery.
Yes, voting Democrat is an act of evil.