Election 2012

Where is Rick Santorum? Because in a perfect world, as an evangelical Christian I wouldn't be voting for Mitt Romney. But my chance to have a representative who held to my theology ended with the primaries earlier this year.

It is a reflection of our culture--no, it is a condemnation of evangelical Christians that over the last 40 years they have not been able to convince their neighbors that t heir way of life is worth living. In the last 40 years we have gone from a moral, to an amoral, to an immoral society: Unheard of to most species, by the millions, American mothers kill their children for their own convenience, (note to DNC--only 1% of abortions are done for rape or incest.) Gone is the instinct to nourish and protect, while abortion is sanctioned and encouraged by society at large. No wonder that children are abused by both parents; they are given no value as a "fetus" and the realty is that everyone knows there is no magic in the birth canal that suddenly creates a human life. If we don't value them before birth, we will not value them after birth.

At one time sex was saved for marriage, now living together and premarital sex is the "recommended way" of choosing a life partner; 95% of Americans have had premarital sex, so it's no surprise that 50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce. You can't undervalue part of the equation without destroying the whole.

We accept the finding of scientists as fact, even though they seem to contradict themselves in every new addition of the AMA Journal. So if they say there is no Creator, in their all knowing confusion society accepts it; no God, no morality, no rules. And while homosexuality defies the natural order of things (up/down, in/out, positive/negative, left/right, man/woman), if there is no God, and there are no rules, then there is no good or bad, there is no sin.

We want to blame the country's spiritual demise on a government who took prayer out of schools, but it is people who make up a country. It is us, the evangelical Christian and those who share our values. Once upon a time we were an overwhelming majority.

But where are the Christians now? 1 out of 5 of them is struggling with pornography, 80% has had premarital sex, 50% of their marriages have ended in divorce, and they account for 20% of the abortions. The protestant church and its leaders should be ashamed that they have produced hypocritical witnesses for God that can only offer society empty promises of a future that they can't prove! It is the evangelical Christian community that has devalued the Word of God, has eradicated the mosaic law (along with the judeo/Christian values it represented), and has fully adopted the lifestyle of the world around it, throwing on the cloak of "grace" whenever anyone dares to lift an accusing finger their way. With such an example is it a surprise that the majority, 52%, of Americans believe that the government should not promote a traditional set of values?

The evangelical Christian has no representation in this election because long ago they gave up the lifestyle that God set forth for them, to adopt the worldly practices around them, and can no longer offer any hope, or any practical answers for peoples' real life problems or to a community starving for a God that represents what is good, and right, and holy.

It is embarrassing that Mitt Romney, a person with a religion that most evangelicals despise, practices a more God-glorifying behavior than us. And because he does I am voting for him. He may not be a Christian, and his platform is much more liberal than I'd like, but there is plenty of evidence in scripture that if an unbeliever honors God, God will honor him, just as we will be disciplined for our own insolence of God's word.