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Certainly. If the long term course of events is set, the thousands of political decisions and choices along the way are not.
President? I though the vote was to decide if they are going to raise our property tax. That is all anyone seems to talk about. My property taxes are under $3,000 a years so I consider myself pretty lucky that I do not have to pay two or three times that amount. We go to look at a house I do not ask how much the house is, I ask how much are the taxes.
If one's preference is to vote Democrat then no, there is no purpose in voting. May as well give up.
1,000 years from now would be closer to the beginning of the new heaven and new earth. Of course every end has a new beginning and every beginning follows the end of something.
That's a little baby with the bathwater-ish; we could spend the time instead helping our neighbors, helping the needy, evangelizing the lost, and preparing for what comes at the end of the road instead of arguing which path we are going to take there.
There is a verse in Jeremiah, written to the northern Kingdom (Israel) when scattered in the nations (where they still are) and it basically says (and I paraphrase) to do what you can to bring peace into the communities we find ourselves. Now, we can't legislate morality, but we can vote for the person who while fallible, does the least damage. For me it is a simple choice... I can't justify abortion because by the time a woman finds out she is pregnant, not only does the babies genetic code declare it to be a unique human being, but the heart is already beating. So on that point alone, I can't vote for anyone who aligns to that kind of culture of death. But, that is my problem and how I deal with it in the ballot box.
My position is, liberal or conservative, their agendas all come from the same source and lead to the same end.
Goes along with "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil". But the Republicans and democrats have proven themselves to both be such liars - so do we decide to vote for one set of lies over another? Is voting for the lesser evil still not a vote for evil?
That goes along with what another poster said, that there are still issues to address along the way. Abortion being one of them. But again, can we really sway the path we are on? We vote in Trump as the lesser evil over Hillary. Many seem to think he's the anointed one. BUT - his is the group that steals from the poor and middle to enrich his already rich buddies. His is the group that, when faced with pleas from the sick, buys up the companies that make medicines and jacks the prices up. The face of the conservative movement isn't Jesus, it's Martin Shkreli. Do we empower greed and selfishness just to over rule abortion?There is a verse in Jeremiah, written to the northern Kingdom (Israel) when scattered in the nations (where they still are) and it basically says (and I paraphrase) to do what you can to bring peace into the communities we find ourselves. Now, we can't legislate morality, but we can vote for the person who while fallible, does the least damage. For me it is a simple choice... I can't justify abortion because by the time a woman finds out she is pregnant, not only does the babies genetic code declare it to be a unique human being, but the heart is already beating. So on that point alone, I can't vote for anyone who aligns to that kind of culture of death. But, that is my problem and how I deal with it in the ballot box.
But that's the point - neither party is responsible enough to vote for. They BOTH promote evil, unBiblical positions. Vote against abortion and you vote for those serving mammon. Vote against mammom-grubbing and you then vote for liberal causes like abdication of personal responsibility and any-sex you want to be thinking. When individual issues come up, I can see voting on that, but the hodge-podge mess that is the republicans and democrats? Either way, it's a vote for evil.
But the republicans don't uphold Christian values. They are the party of money and greed, both distinctly un-Bibical positions. As much as Bill Maher is a nut case, he gets it right on that...
