Politicians will steal your Soul

First off this is not a rant about Ms. Bachmann, because frankly I don't care. But with all the press she has received lately, and the articles I linked in the previous post she is the easiest person to use as an example. Not to mention she is a politician who makes no qualms about allowing her faith to directly influence her political decisions (which I find odd considering America was heavily founded on religious liberty and the separation of church and state).

After reading the a fore mentioned article, I'm terrified. The thought of Michele Bachmann (or any similar candidate) becoming president terrifies me, and here are some of the most pointed reasons.

1) Her desire to make her religious beliefs the basis for laws passed, and decisions made. Now I'm all for policy makers allowing their religion to give them a solid moral compass that is then is one of the available tools used when decisions are made. I get really scared when someone believes certain actions are right/wrong and then begins to make decisions that affect our whole country based solely off that belief. In this particular case there are several that can be pointed out: Creationism taught in schools; Abortion; American blindly supporting Israel as a state.

Now this may come as a surprise to many people, because I suspect there are very few people who actually read my blog and even fewer who are not of a Christian background, but I don't want Christian beliefs at the center of our nations policy making. That only paves the way for other religious beliefs to be the center at a future date and time, and I'd rather live in a country that has actual religious freedom. One where my beliefs are as valid as any other and we can all live in the beauty that exists when people find worth in differences as well as similarities.

2) She is a true politician, twisting the facts to say/support what she needs them to say/support. I wish it wasn't true, I wish people would just say the truth and let people connect with them that way, but that isn't politics and that doesn't win elections. From what I've read and heard out of her campaign she preys on people who don't think for themselves, or are so bound up that their view of America/politics/religion is right they can't see past their noses. She uses her "conservative faith" as a platform to reach constituents, and I frankly find that offensive. I feel like she is hijacking Jesus the same way the terrorists on 9/11 hijacked the whole of the Muslim faith. Because just as I don't believe what Bachmann believes, there are thousands of Muslims that don't believe in blowing up buildings to get their point across.

I'm just tired of hearing Politicans use their religious beliefs as a basis to keep freedoms from others. Just because we disagree with someone doesn't mean they don't have the right to make that decision. Bachmann claims to support liberty, but I don't see that in her stance against Gay Marriage, which seems to me to be supported by the Constitution, and a legal rather than religious issue.

So yeah, I pointed out Bachmann quite a bit, but this extends to all politicians. Huckabee, Obama, etc...

I think it is time we examine why we support any of the politicians in Washington, and consider removing them. The establishment seems to have forgotten who they answer to, and quite frankly we haven't called them to answer in a very long time. The corrupt flourish while the honest voices are downed out.

As a Christian the wicked are in power, and the orphans, widows and aliens in the land are being forgotten. There is no perfect government, and when Israel was given a King the Lord said it was what they wanted not what he wanted. When Christ came he didn't stir up political revolution, but a revolution of the heart that found itself in opposition to the Caesars Regime. I find myself in opposition to the current Regime and helping to elect another Caesar doesn't seem like the answer.