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A very important election is close at hand. Next Tuesday, choices will be made by voters that will affect the future of our nation for generations to come. Are you prepared to vote?
The truth is, only 32 million—of the over 100 million people who say they’re born-again—voted in the last election. Most of these are sincere people who are trying to live as God wants them to live. Why then do they not go to the polls and vote? I’m glad you asked.
Up until 1900 the Christian population of America controlled the outcome of elections. No candidate could be elected who did not acknowledge God’s place in the history of our nation. Actually they had to go further than that. In their speeches and writings, they had to acknowledge that Jesus Christ was God’s Son, and that the Bible was the best book to live by in this world. Had a candidate for political office in the 1800’s stated that he believed abortion was a woman’s choice he would have ended his political career then and there. If a candidate had stated that homosexuality was just a different way of family life he would have sealed his political doom. What changed? Why are we in the political slime which has politicians scampering for a way to appeal to homosexual voters? Why are most government servants no longer statesmen?
It all started when Christians backed out of the political realm in the 1920’s. When Christians lost the battle over legalizing liquor, many Bible-believing Pastors began to say, “That’s it! The government is no longer responsive to the church. Therefore, we’ll make it our focus to get people saved, and we’ll leave the government for someone else to do.” And someone else did it!
The few who hated God and wanted to see America turned from its Biblical worldview, began to move into positions of leadership in the education system, and the government. By the 1930’s, many of the department chairmanships in colleges had been infiltrated by these humanists. They then easily duplicated themselves and their evil ideas in unsuspecting students, who then went out to teach in schools across the country. Some of the leading humanists ran for political office and made their way into high places in government. At least one became a President, while many others became Congressional Representatives, Senators, or Supreme Court Judges. By the 1960’s they were ready to launch their full-scale attack on Christian values in our culture.
Prayer and Bible reading in government schools were disallowed in 1963. In 1973 the murdering of unborn children by abortion was legalized. In 1980 the Ten Commandments in public places were ruled unconstitutional. In the 1990’s the recognition of homosexuality as a normal lifestyle began to be pushed on us. All of this was done, not by laws which Congress passed, but by a federal court system, which has usurped more and more power from the states—even denying the true definition of marriage!
Why can they do this? Because most Bible-believing Christians have stayed home instead of going to the polls and voting. We have allowed others to choose the Presidents and Senators who have seated these Supreme Court judges. We are at fault! And yet, there are enough of us to swing any election in favor of candidates who stand nearest to the Bible position on issues—if we would vote our Biblical values.
Will you decide to be the “salt and light” Jesus told us we were? Will you go to the polls and vote this coming Tuesday? Your choice is: Vote your Biblical values—or one day have your children look at you and ask, “Daddy, Mommy, what were you doing when freedom in America died?”
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you—and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you. I’m Don Pinson; this has been Think About It.