StanJ
Lifelong student of God's Word.
Welcome to CB DogLady19...nice to hear a level headed POV on this issue. As a Canadian, I seem to get flack for even having an opinion on American politics. Apparently some believe I am not allowed to voice it. :huh:DogLady19 said:I live in a state with open primaries, so I know about indies being able to vote in them, and yes, they do influence which candidate a particular party ends up with (but not to the degree that some people claim). Personally, I think that's fair considering only a limited few of the people who wish to run for office are actually allowed on the ballot because party politics have been codified.
As for socialism, yes, some money from working people goes to non-working people. Two thirds of those non-working people are elderly, disabled or children - people the Church is supposed to care for (especially in a country that has a church on every corner!)
What concerns me more is how much money from working people goes to millionaires and corrupt officials. We spend far more in corporate welfare than we do in poverty alleviation.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." -Frederic Bastiat
Personally, I don't God is on any country's "side" any more than He cares what football team makes it to the Superbowl. He wishes ALL would come to repentance, but that requires individual choice, not a national one. This nation was founded by sinners - some saved by grace, some not - and I don't think God ever promised He'd bless our nation... perhaps we have been a little too presumptuous to ever think that.
I whole heartedly agree that God is not on any NATIONAL side. His plan is to build a church that will inherit the NEW earth and as such continuously works to that end.
BTW, I have 2 dogs.