Christians must vote for the sake of culture and the Constitution

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Monday, October 21, 2024

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OPINION:

Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in California called out Christians who don’t vote as disobedient to God’s will; as shirkers of their biblically based responsibilities and callings; as cowards who embolden wickedness; and as rejecters of truth. He did it from the pulpit this past Sunday.

That this is news at all shows how far America has strayed from the Founding Father ideals.

As Hibbs said: “For nearly 400 years on this continent, there have been election sermons.”

So what’s happened to make politics from the pulpit seem so radical to so many Americans?

Leftists — Democrats — secularists and atheists — have successfully silenced much of the Christian voice in politics in recent decades, and they’ve done it by threatening Internal Revenue Service action, by threatening lawsuits, by threatening protests and intimidation campaigns and rallies in the streets and media-fueled public condemnations. More truthfully, they’ve done it with the permission of Christians who have failed to stand up to the pressures from the left and keep faith and biblical values alive in government.

All this booting of the Bible from the public square is having a disastrous effect on American politics, culture and society at-large. It’s become a nation of governing by human will — by fleshly desire — by humanist lust — rather than by godly virtues and concern for and regard of an ever-watching Creator.

Look at the LGBTQ agenda alone. It’s not just proving a destructive force that’s steadily attacking God’s designs for family and for His children, and eroding the traditional building block of all well-functioning societies; it’s also been wreaking havoc on the mental stability of an entire nation of people.

Think about it. There is really nothing in life that is as basic as the truth of what it means to be a male versus what it means to be a female. Males have XY sex chromosomes; females have XX. Males have male genitalia; females have female genitalia. Males produce sperm; females produce eggs.

Let in the lunatic fringe, though, and suddenly those biological truths become cause for controversy. Suddenly, the idea of two sexes and two sexes only, as created by God, becomes confining and restrictive and offensive. Suddenly, calling a male a male and a female a female is hate speech, and insisting males do male things and females do female things — like use bathrooms and public dressing rooms and school showers that correspond to their respective sexes — is hateful action.

Confusion comes.

Chaos results.

And that all works to bring an end to the Constitution.

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” as John Adams warned.

“The Constitution’s not going to work for you … if you live carnally,” as Hibbs warned in his sermon.

This is common sense stuff. But where atheism roams, wisdom departs. This nation is certainly being destroyed for lack of knowledge.

The fix for America — for an education system that fills kids’ heads with radical anti-American and ungodly ideas; for an economy that’s filled with debt and fueled by fiat and fake money; for a political class that holds itself as separate and above the taxpayers who provide their salaries; for a broken border that rewards lawlessness and punishes lawful; for all the rot that goes forth in the entertainment industry as normal; for a woke business world that pushes the rot even more onto the American public; for a rapidly crumbling model of governance that upholds individualism and rejects collectivism, in all its various socialist, progressive, communist and Marxist ways — the fix for all that’s wrong with America is, ding, ding, ding, for Americans to return to God.

That means Christians must vote.

That means those who know God best must have active voices in their education systems, in the business and finance worlds, in the political offices.

If those who best understand the concepts that forge the basic idea of American Exceptionalism — that of God-given rights and liberties — refuse to involve themselves in the government, in the political world, in the culture, in all of society and not just church on Sunday — the ground is ceded to the secularists; to the humanists; to the atheists; to the “nones.”

And wickedness becomes the land.

“The Bible says to him who knows good and fails to do it — to him it is sin,” Hibbs said.

To those who know which candidate best represents godly principles of life, liberty and justice and fail to vote — the land becomes sin-filled.

“[Politicians] used to be called public servants,” Hibbs said. “Now we serve them.”

Who’s to blame? The tens of millions of Christians who have failed to vote over the years, and who are predicted to sit out the vote this November, as well.

Christians who refuse to vote have only themselves to blame.