Years ago, I registered people to vote. Our obligation was to register voters to any party. Many did not even know the names of the parties! Other’s either did not know the current president nor even his party. Basically, Jonathan Gruber was right when he said, “We depended on the stupidity of the American voter.”
Voters need not be stupid. Rather
than to vote stupidly, I challenge you to consider, even people you hate, intelligently.
Put your antipathy aside of a change and consider doing what is right, not for
you alone, but for our country and its people.
Never vote just because of the opinions
of the majorities or those who you admire, but for what is right for the nation
and its people. If you are not informed it is unfair to yourself and others to
even vote! I will not discourage you from voting but encourage you to vote informed
and with wisdom.
Election day is nearing. Although
I have my own preference among the two, this commentary is not about candidates
who do not even know my name as the propaganda machine claims; it is
about what is right and what is wrong.
What most people do not know is
that Judeo-Christianity throughout is political. It is about who would be king.
You see, there was one king but many, many pretenders. Regardless of how many
contenders to the throne there was, there was only one “Pretender” — the Devil.
Everyone wanting to rule was the
way to usurp God’s rule.
To be honest, there is corruption
in all political parties, leaving voters left to vote for the least offensive
or the most right. However, even some Christians have cognitive dissonance:
“a psychological phenomenon that occurs when a person holds two contradictory
beliefs at the same time”
For instance, a Christian who accepts
the command, “You shall not murder” and yet supports the party whose main
platform is murdering the most innocent. If they are truly Christians, if guilt
does not ensue, them they suffer from cognitive dissonance and they are not
right in the head. Their thoughts are not the Thoughts of God (Isa 55:8).
Christians are encouraged, or
even measured, by how much their thoughts parallel the divine Thoughts of God.
That activity is what Paul called, “In Christ” wherein the thoughts of
Christians are symbiotic with the Thoughts of God. Christians must be in unity
with God and with each other… “in accord” (Acts 2:1).
Why, then, do Christians vote
differently. Are both party platforms the same, are both candidates the same;
or are Christians different. Neither Democrat nor Republican Platforms are
perfect. However, they can be tested by scripture. I could do that for you, but
only you can get your mind is order with the precepts of God. “Prove all
things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil” (1
Thes 5:22-23). You have the responsibility to inquire, not just to accept promises
as if they were already done!
Proving to yourself to the standards
of God is testing your own myths. You have a predisposition (bias) within your
mind that is natural due to original sin. That is the “scotoma” that blocks you
from the truth that is the genetics of the Wicked One in you.
As the “Serpent” indicated, “God
knows that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you
shall be as God, knowing good and evil” (Gen 3:5). In fact, due to sin, people think
they know more than God.
Not that abortion is my own litmus
test for politics, it is for many. Now, even Christians accept abortion because
so many, even church leaders, think that mankind cannot not live without
freedom from the precepts of God. Somehow, many have worked into the
commandments that you must not kill has exceptions. Abortion essentially
punishes the child for the offenses of the mother and father.
Even more examples can be used to
excuse people from following the Law of God. For instance, homosexuality is an
abomination to God.
The excuse is that Jesus never
said anything about homosexuality, so the absence of condemnation rationalizes
the sickness of the mind. Many Christians think that they can diminish God yet
belong to God. That is not only cognitive dissonance — not right in the head —
but spiritual dissonance — not right in the soul. The psyche of the person who
thinks that they can have things both ways may cause their own demise in that
they are spiritually sick and in need of wholeness with the flesh subject to
the spirit.
God calls homosexual behavior “disgusting,”
but people condone it. Condoning what God condemns, makes your authority
greater than God’s.
The way to hang onto what is
good from the body of knowledge (and behaviors) is to test it to scripture
(the Old Testament wherein the Law is found.)
There is a cause for both your
cognitive and spiritual dissonances; you have two sets of laws in your mind.
You must always accept one or the other to be normal, but so many accept
conflicting thoughts. Jesus said, “He that is not with Me is against Me” (Mat
12:30). Added to that, Jesus also said, “No man can serve two masters: for
either he will hate the one and love the other” (Mat 6:24).
People must make up their minds
and go with what is most right. The Word of God is ALL right, but again I write,
we are not God. Political parties all come short of the glory of God; and it is
up to us to go with the one that comes less short of the glory of God.
One idea that should be examined
closely is division. The purpose of Christianity is commanded: to love
God and others: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with
all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your
neighbour as yourself” (Luke 10:27). That is the greatest commandment. It is for
us to avoid division and do what is best from everyone. It is putting selfish
interests aside and having empathy, not sympathy, for those less prosperous.
Equality is empathetic while equity is just guilt ridden sympathy.
Divine love is not emotional; it
is having goodwill for God and others. Having goodwill for others is having
good laws.
Defying God in any manner at all,
as it turns out in scripture, is not good law because mankind is inherently
evil.
Admit it; what goes on in your
minds would impress the demons. Even if you are a Christian, demonic thoughts
enter your mind. That is not for me to say, but Jesus referred to “your father,
the Devil” (John 8:44) That is not biological but the content of your thoughts.
You think like Satan and the only correction from cognitive dissonance is the
Word of God — the “helmet” that shields our minds from deception from anything
that can get into our minds. Our minds are our own worst enemies; for so many, it
is not so important what God thinks, but what we think, according to the law of
sin.
What is it that Satan (Lucifer)
thinks? “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most
High (God)” (Isa 14:14). His thoughts are not the Thoughts of God. When we
elevate our own internal moral code above the standards of God, then that is
prideful and even arrogant. However, that is the way so many think! For them,
it matters not what God thinks but what they think. They have within their
foolish minds the fantasy that the world is egocentric wherein it is the people
that everything revolves around. Egocentricity is that we are the true God and that
the “Ego Eimi” (I AM) is not.
People often ask, “What do you
think about whatever?” It matters not what we think but what God said
about any topic. Our minds are not the Bible; the Mind of God is the Bible!
Remember that it is not what
people say they will do, but what people have done. With the first sin, the
Serpent did not sin himself; he got others to sin at his suggestion. He
deceived two naïve people, and they took the bait and essentially “voted” for
Lucifer to be their “King” over God Himself.
Their sin was violation of the
first commandment: literally to have no other gods with my face (Exod
20:3). Lucifer as the “Bringer of Light” had the “face” of God who is Light.
The point therein is that things are
not what they appear to be. Lucifer may have appeared to be a star but inwardly
he was a creepy, crawly worm. So many politicians wear the face of good, but inwardly,
it is power that they want just like the creepy, crawly Serpent.
You must never look at the outward
man or woman, but the inward person. You must look into their souls to see who
they really are.
King David looked into his own
soul and did not like what he saw. He was a murderer like his “father” the
Devil and an adulterer like Eve (I believe; Gen 4:1), but as God left the flesh
intact He changed the nature of the man within. David became a new person with
the same ugly exterior (to God) and so it should be with any political leader.
Voter, you must see into the soul
of the candidate. There is a “window” of sorts to see within a person. You
cannot look only at outward appearances and status, or even gender or the color
of the skin. As Martin Luther King put it, “I have a dream that my four little
children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the
color of their skin but by the content of their character.” It is not the skin,
the clothing, the smile, the beauty, the age, or even the status of the person
that should be examined. The standard of fairness is the content of their
character!
What is character? “It's their
motivations, desires, fears, quirks, and personal history that dictate their
actions and reactions”
Consider two choices; and ask yourself:
·
Why do they want the office? Is it for their own
empowerment or for the people?
·
What do they want to accomplish? To elevate
themselves, or to elevate the lifestyles of the general public?
·
Who or what do they fear? Competition? The Constitution?
The other party proving themselves better, or is it the fear of change that may
turn out to be downward? Do they really fear the people, or do they fear just the
loss of their own power?
·
About quirks: Are they consistent in their
ideologies, or do they change when people notice how weird they are to the rest
of us?
·
About personal history: Have they done things beneficial
for the people or things that constrain them? Do they protect freedoms or regulate
behaviors, or even thoughts? Do they want to lead or do they seek to control?
Is their history what is best for them or best for the people? Do they
always go with the party or with the people?
·
Do they seem rational or are they crazy? Do they
behave normally or artificially? Would you want to be like them?
·
How do they react to questions or policies? Do they
laugh at good ideas and denigrate the idealist, or do they thoughtfully
consider what is best for the most, not forgetting that we are all in this
together?
·
Are their actions consistent with their promises?
Do they promise prosperity while proposing regressive policies?
·
Is the candidate genuine” Are they able to admit
that their party has sometimes failed the people? Do they twist the truth or
admit what is true? Do they claim success in the midst of failure? Can they
really obtain what they propose? Will they even try to be who they say they
are?
Hopefully, you get the idea.
Elections are not popularity contests or ways to obtain equity. We are not to
break glass, or any other ceilings, but do what is right for the most people.
Some need not suffer for the gain
of others! There must be ways around that wherein all can prosper without
hurting anyone. Does the candidate propose to grow the economy or rather to commit
usury by taking away from one to advance the other?
Test all things. Use their
history. Which party has ALWAYS been on the side of good?
Hopefully you get the idea, and if
you are not motivated to test the candidates, perhaps you should not vote because
of a name or any other outward characteristic.
“Ask not what your country can do
for you; but what you can do for your country” (John F. Kennedy). Do you not
love your country? Or do you despise it so intensely that you would risk the
loss of our republic? If you think an amateur can do the hardest job in the
country, perhaps you have cognitive dissonance yourselves.
If you test those things and prefer
one over the other, then good for you. In your test, test by asking, “Is this
only good for me, and people like me, or is it best for everyone.”
Nowadays politicians forget “we
the people” and see America as a conglomeration of diverse people wherein each
segment of the population must get more for them to prosper.
People deserve to keep what they
have worked so hard to obtain… “Know you not that they which run in a race run
all, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain,” just as Paul
said. (1 Cor 9:24). So many do not run the race, but expect others to run the
race for them to get the rewards.
The best candidate has a plan for
all to run, not just stand there at the finish line with their hands out to receive
what the others have worked so hard to obtain. Paul was speaking against Marxism
long before Marx was ever born.
With that said, don’t vote your
minds but your conscience. The mind can be easily deceived but the conscious is
more genuine. Good voters vote with God. Since God is not running this year, or
any year, then we must vote for those who best manifest his principles.
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