Are You Voting Christianly or Christendomly?
John C.
Nugent08/05/16
Kudos to believers who strive
to vote like Christians. Some do so by electing candidates who best represent
the Christian values they cherish most. Others do so by electing candidates
whose overall approach to government they believe best serves the good of all.
By voting in these ways, believers attempt to love and seek the peace of their
neighbors.
Unfortunately, many people who
are attempting to vote Christianly are actually voting Christendomly.
By “Christendomly,” I mean striving to retain or recover the collaborative
relationship that Christians have long enjoyed with Western governments. (See
this recent Wayne
Grudem column as an example.) Such collaboration began in the fourth
century, when the Roman Empire went from ignoring and persecuting Christians to
tolerating and eventually embracing Christianity as the state religion. Since
then, believers have grown accustomed to promoting Christian values through
civil mechanisms. In several places, Christianity became the mandatory state
religion.
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