Political musings

From the song we hear sung nowadays, you might think that the single most important calling of all time is to restore our country to its old fashioned values and beliefs.

But is it?

We aren’t called to be Republicans, third-party or even plain conservative. Our mission isn’t to traditional-American-ize our culture. Our first commitment isn’t to be loyal and faithful to the country of our birth, but to the heavenly country of our new birth; a kingdom which has no end.

We don’t war against flesh and blood. Instead of conservative values versus liberalism or Right versus Left it’s really right versus wrong, Christ and the Church vs. the World, the Seed of the woman vs. the dragon of the ages – if we are going to be honest with ourselves, we won’t judge something on whether or not it’s ‘conservative’, it’s got to be Biblical or it doesn’t deserve the time of day, instead needing to be destroyed or reformed.

This isn’t to say that our country wasn’t founded on Christian principles or that our fathers weren’t Christians. Or that a return to traditional American values and the Constitution isn’t what our government needs. What we need to realize is that humans are fallible, and a system which is at best grounded properly, when in the hands of imperfect stewards and unregenerate men, can become a system which has lost its footing on that infallible foundation.