{"id":8859,"date":"2020-08-06T13:28:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T18:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8859"},"modified":"2020-08-06T13:29:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T18:29:32","slug":"lesser-than-two-evils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8859","title":{"rendered":"LESSER THAN TWO EVILS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many times I’ve heard the “lesser than two evils” objection brought up by those who voted (and will vote again) for Donald Trump. Here is David French:<\/strong><\/p>\n

And yes, Christians also hasten the decay if we vote for policies and people who would scorn the church, denigrate the value of unborn life, and celebrate other values contrary to biblical truth.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>But we do not have to choose between evils<\/em>. Our nation\u2019s two political parties do not dictate to the church how it must use its vast cultural and political power. The church must instead communicate its standards to our parties.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If the world\u2019s wealthiest and and most powerful collection of Christians are supine before their political masters in the United States, marching to the beat of secular drummers (even if allegedly \u201cholding their noses\u201d all the while) then I fear the message that sends is that we do not have faith that God\u2019s providence governs the nations. We cannot and must not \u201cput our trust in princes.\u201d There is no such thing as a \u201cbinary choice.\u201d We can choose not to yield to the spirit of the times.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Theological truth can also create a pragmatic reality. Over time, perhaps the best method of cleansing our political class of the low, narcissistic characters who all too often occupy public office is to stop voting for them. “<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Many times I’ve heard the “lesser than two evils” objection brought up by those who voted (and will vote again) for Donald Trump. Here is David French: And yes, Christians also hasten the decay if we vote for policies and people who would scorn the church, denigrate the value of unborn life, and celebrate other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,43,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-christianity","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8861,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859\/revisions\/8861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}