After about 15 minutes, no matter how I turned things around and tried re-examining the subject, the answer kept coming back the same: Nothing. And so that post evaporated without even coming close to the keyboard.
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It makes perfect sense to lots of Christians to use the power of their numbers to influence and guide public policy. There's so much evil in the world, from local merchants demanding to open their doors on Sundays, to state legislators mandating what Biology textbooks are approved for public schools, to Capitol Hill and self-serving legislative agendas, that it only seems natural for believers to want to wade into the fray as one body and demand that their rights be respected along with everyone else's.
"Let's take our faith from the pulpit to the polls," in other words. Just look at the evil times we're living in: isn't it time to stop turning the other cheek and start fighting back?
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Rome was a fairly debauched place during the days when Christ preached the gospel. Contemporary accounts detailed all kinds of perversion, corruption and excess ... yet somehow Christ's message didn't include directives about organizing his church into political action committees "to stamp out evil and make the world a decent place."
What Jesus did say was that the day of Salvation is at hand, that he'll be coming back on the day and time of God's choosing and that when he does, God's word will be the weapon he wields to crush evil and destroy wickedness forever.
Not a handful of clever bumper stickers. Not a letter-writing campaign. Not any politician's vision, not any political action committee and certainly not either of our two political parties.
