Excellent article discusses the principles that characterize a “Christian vote”. In summary:
- A Christian vote is a vote for others. It is basic to the Christian outlook that life is to be devoted to the good of others before ourselves. In the political realm, Christians should use whatever influence they have to contribute to others, to ”consider others better” than themselves.
- The moral health of our community will provide another motivation for the Christian vote.
- Christians will think of promoting the Christian message.
- Christians will mainly have in mind the poor and powerless.
Christians ought to resist the temptation to vote for the party they think will shave more off their tax bill or add a percentage point to gross domestic product. They should be thinking of others. Nothing else can be called a Christian vote.
See, In the political realm, birds of a feather don’t necessarily flock together by John Dickson. Thanks, Russell Morton.
