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One thing I don’t get is how, in most people’s minds, not voting relinquishes the right of an individual to “complain” afterward. It might be said that by not voting one reserves that right. He is acknowledging beforehand that no matter which candidate is elected our country is going to hell in a hand-basket.

But that is not my reasoning exactly. You see, I look at the choices and I feel that there is no man up for election, with a chance of winning at least, who I can in good conscience support. If I vote for one candidate I support the killing of innocent children in our country. If I vote for the other I support the killing of unsaved women and children in another. I will not be responsible for either candidates policies.

Here in America our god is power. We worship the civil religion, and our sacrament is voting. We march into the voting booth and partake, praying to the powers that be to save us from the ills and woes of the previous administration.

America has been sold a bag of goods and Christians have bought in wholesale. We have forgotten who God is. God is the God of nations, kings, and presidents. He, and He only, can decide who the next leader of our pitiful nation will be. God swings the hearts of nations. He controls this election if I vote or not. Every Christian in the country could forgo the polls and God’s man will get into office. God’s man may bring judgment on our heads, but he will be God’s man, make no mistake.

A duty to do something is not decided by the right to do it. Nowhere in the Scriptures am I commanded to vote in the next election. I am expressly commanded to pray for our leaders, and for our nation, and for our children. To pray for repentance. We will not get a good America by getting a good president. We will get a good president when Americans turn to God. Not the god of personal peace and security, but the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The God who judges the wicked and rewards the faithful.