I've been heartened by recent articles in Charisma, the magazine for charismatic and pentacostal Christians, on immigration and global warming. These are issues with important political implications for Bible-believing Christians. When it comes to immigration, I've decided to look at it this way: God doesn't give a rip what nationality you are or where you're living. And He wants fairness and justice to be reflected in our laws, not only for the laws themselves to be observed. So if He doesn't care about nationality, and wants laws to be just and fair, then what does that say about people who advocate an enforcement-only approach to dealing with immigration? That approach guarantees that some 12 million illegals remain an underclass who live under the radar, get paid under the table, and whose families often get plowed under by our dysfunctional system.
About global warming ... I read some strong biblical arguments for the protection of private property, but since when does the Bible promote consumerism and protect the interests of corporations? I'm all for conservatism in the sense of protecting private property because that's plausibly biblical, but I don't see anything the Bible that tells me we can't increase CAFE standards or refrain from racking up credit card debt for the holidays.
Anyway, both illegal immigration and the environment are both issues that the Republican party just isn't doing well on, from my viewpoint. I don't think I'm alone. I wonder how long till a new "Christian coalition" forms that reflects these same concerns? Will the Republican party get on the clue train by that time? Hopefully, because I still care about pro-life and traditional marriage.
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A generation ago, the Democrats were the party of religion. Today it's the Republicans. But I think this is partially just the media trying to force their categories on the populace to make their job easier. Christians tend to be more diverse in their thought than other groups, and much more diverse than the media gives us credit for. In most of the intellectual debates throughout history, you had devout Christians on both sides.
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