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following the way of Jesus in the land of our captivity10 Reasons to Vote: A Sympathetic Challenge to Mark’s 10 Reasons NOT to Vote
Started by markvans · 10 months ago
Editor’s Note: My good friend Casey (who is, by the way, a part of Missio Dei) posted 10 good counter-reasons to vote as a response to my recent article in which I explain why I don’t vote. I think his counter-argument is one-part compelling, and one-part humorou
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1 year ago
But maybe i should vote because hey... free sticker. lol.
1 year ago
1 year ago
Did the prophets of the OT have credibility? Many were murdered for their words because it didn't play to what they wanted to hear. Obviously they were credible. God was using them as a voice to His people. But did the people view them as credible or were they blatantly rebelling against God's call to them? I know the people of Ninevah listened.
1 year ago
1 year ago
If you say "I don't vote because I do not wish to participate in the system" then you run the risk of being asked why you take public transportation, send your kids to public school or are enrolled in state sponsored health care, all of which operate, of course, thru public funding and the voters' mandate. It's one thing to be called a slacker, it's another to be called a hypocrite.
1 year ago
If the motivation for voting is to gain hold of a larger portion of the franchise for the purpose of exercising its power in our own behalf, in order to capture privilege, then it is altogether evil and no better than the actual use of violence on others.
Nathanael Snow
ndsnow@gmail.com
1 year ago
1 year ago
Just a thought. I'm not trying to debunk your ten points but do think it's important to clarify the place of voting in regards to political power.
1 year ago
I heard someone say that the righteous person's rain is God's saving grace, as dispensed by the Church. The unrighteous one's rain is God's common grace, as dispensed by the social institutions (government, schools, firefighters, police). Such a world as our needs all the grace it can get, I think.