There was a fellow being interviewed by Fox News today.  He is the national security advisor for the Christian Action Network.  Who are they, and what do they do?  Well, a former editor for Jerry Falwell’s “Moral Majority Report” started the CAN group.  His name is Martin Mawyer, and he said that the organization was “created to protect America’s religious and moral heritage.”

Does our religious heritage need preserving?  And how do you protect it?  I guess you could remind everyone over and over that we started out as a “Christian” nation, but there will always be those who will challenge that fact, because most of our forefathers believed substantially different things from what our Christian churches teach today.

And why do Christians need a national security advisor?  Don’t we have God? Won’t He protect us?  Or does He only help those who help themselves?  What about helping the helpless?

This group also promotes CPA’s.  No, not certified public accountants. Christian Political Activists. What do they do?  From what I’ve read their goal is to take over America for God.  That is, they want to put fundamentalist Christians in all levels of the government, so that all laws can be in complete alignment with God’s Word — the Bible.  I personally don’t see how you can get the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government to agree on “Christian” laws.  Is it doable?

Neither Jesus (in the gospels) nor his followers (in the letters) seemed to advocate Christian political activism.  Why should we?  How about our daily walk with Christ?  How we relate to family and friends. How we relate to enemies.  Do we really need to pour our money and time into forcefully wrenching our government from the sinners?

Maybe we should pray about it.  What’s that?  We already did?  I wonder if God just isn’t into this movement.  Or maybe we didn’t get the answer we were looking for.  So it’s up to us.  Or is it?

The Bible says that we are “in the world, but not of the world.”  What does that mean?  Are we just “passing through” like the old gospel song proclaims?  Or should we get involved?  If so, just how involved should we get?

There is a growing fear with some in our country that many who have conservative values are fanning the flames of fanaticism.  Neal Gabler with the Los Angeles Times thinks that there is something terrifying happening in the nation (see Politics As Religion In America).  He writes:

Perhaps the single most profound change in our political culture over the last 30 years has been the transformation of conservatism from a political movement, with all the limitations, hedges and forbearances of politics, into a kind of fundamentalist religious movement, with the absolute certainty of religious belief.

Now, I really don’t care to write about politics, but, as a Christian, I have to ask myself, “What is my role as a citizen within the context of being a believer?”

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