Bowing to Mammon in the Coming Election

The econ­omy is one of the most impor­tant aspects of any pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, and I don’t find that too sur­pris­ing. In a nation (and world) com­prised of those who have no eter­nal inher­i­tance in the king­dom of God, a focus on trea­sures here on Earth is almost expected.

To my Christian read­ers, I encour­age you to go read the Sermon on the Mount. If you’re not already famil­iar with it, read it mul­ti­ple times before vot­ing this November. Pay atten­tion to pas­sages like Matthew 6:19–24 and real­ize that eco­nomic issues aren’t a pri­or­ity for the Christian.

I have heard more than one per­son say they are vot­ing for Obama on eco­nomic grounds despite his sup­port of abor­tion, for exam­ple. I do not think it unrea­son­able to con­clude that when you value eco­nomic con­di­tions over human life, you are in effect bow­ing in wor­ship to Mammon and are antag­o­niz­ing Yahweh.

I’m not going to tell you for whom to vote — I’ll leave that up to you and your con­science before God. All I know is that accord­ing to the CIA World Factbook, there are some­thing like 155,862,043 Protestant Christians in America. ((https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html)) Just imag­ine the result­ing change on soci­ety if we all embraced the Sermon on the Mount in not only our own lives but also tak­ing it into account when vot­ing. It’s only three chap­ters of Scripture (Matthew 5–7), but the impli­ca­tions of liv­ing accord­ing to the prin­ci­ples therein are astounding.

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7 Responses to Bowing to Mammon in the Coming Election

  1. Mike Rowley says:

    The prob­lems with Obama isn’t just that he’s pro killing of chil­dren, he is also pro demise of the white race. I hope and encour­age Every God Fearing Christian to vote against him.

  2. Senior says:

    he is also pro demise of the white race”

    Would this be an indi­ca­tion that you don’t think peo­ple will find Obama’s abor­tion stance suf­fi­cient cause to vote against him and so you must come up with base­less slander??

  3. Rick Beckman says:

    Senior: “Pro-​​demise,” per­haps not, but his racism has been doc­u­mented (that and many other sites, accord­ing to a Google search for “Obama racism”).

  4. Senior says:

    Rick,

    I fol­lowed the link. I read the page. I viewed the You tube.

    The only racism I see doc­u­mented there is the racism of the per­son who put the page up.

    I guess if you define racism as “an aware­ness of race” then Obama is guilty. But I’m pretty sure it is not pos­si­ble to grow up Black in this coun­try with­out some whites mak­ing you aware of race with regularity.

    It is easy to grow up white with only a vague aware­ness of race.

    If one is going to make accu­sa­tions, one should have real evi­dence, not a bunch of inter­net blather.

  5. Rick Beckman says:

    Senior: “It is easy to grow up white with only a vague aware­ness of race.” Perhaps it is, but Connersville har­bors quite a bit of racism. I saw it from mid­dle school on up and even in church after high school. I know what racism looks like.

    If the quotes from Obama are accu­rate, I can say with con­fi­dence that were a *white* per­son to have said them, much of it would have been con­sid­ered racist.

    In any event, he can believe what he wants to about race. It’s been my opin­ion for quite a while that any­one who focuses on race is get­ting such a nar­row pic­ture of humanity.

    I think most of us tend to expect a bit too much from elected offi­cials. God hand-​​picked both Moses & David to lead his peo­ple, and they were both mur­der­ers! (And Republicans thought Clinton was bad!)

  6. Senior says:

    In any event…

    Mike Rowley’s com­ment above that “Obama…is also pro demise of the white race” is unsub­stan­ti­ated and uncalled for.

    Nothing has been said or referred to here to jus­tify it.

    If the quotes from Obama are accu­rate, I can say with con­fi­dence that were a *white* per­son to have said them, much of it would have been con­sid­ered racist.”

    If a white said them per­haps it would not be con­sid­ered racist, or maybe it would be con­sid­ered racist, and, depend­ing on the con­text, per­haps it would have been. Obama is still being con­victed on a mighty thin case.

    Racism is often not a clear right and wrong issue. Just because there is a men­tion of “race” does not mean the speaker is racist.

    The link above (to a Rand site no less!!!!) just gives a list of words lifted from the book with no con­text what­so­ever. This proves only that the per­son doing the list­ing has no idea of what he or she is doing.

    All the “racist” quotes in the YouTube are not what Obama is say­ing, it is Obama explain­ing some­one else’s point of view (if not quot­ing some­one else outright).

    If there is a bit of actual evi­dence in there it is buried under­neath a lot of irrel­e­vant stuff.

    God for­bid that any­one ever give any­one the ben­e­fit of the doubt. Every lit­tle slip by a politi­cian is piled upon as proof of his or hers unfit­ness for office.

  7. Walt Dickinson says:

    Senior, “Every lit­tle slip by a politi­cian is piled upon as proof of his or hers unfit­ness for office.”

    Freudian slips. :) Gotta love ‘em. Or, see­ing as our cur­rent pres­i­dent has so kindly lent his name, Bushisms.

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