God is not a democrat
You cannot help but
feel for the religious and conservatives who on the election of Donald Trump as
the 45th President of the United States of America thought he was
God’s messenger for the times. Too many issues have been conflated with the
interplay of religious dogma, ideology, politics and eschatology that you would
think, instead of Russian interference in the 2016 elections, God was granted
extraordinary privilege to impress on the hearts of voters to choose him.
Then, from a tactical
perspective, you might be given to believe that God concentrated on the
Electoral College and left Hillary Clinton to win the popular vote. A scrappy
job, one would think, but it did suffice for the evangelical bloc and this
whirlwind of a presidency was unleashed on not just America, but the whole
world.
Yet, God is not a
democrat, his kingdom from all descriptions and operations of it do not suggest universal suffrage where every purpose, principle, pattern, prophecy is put
to a plebiscite. If there is a comparison with human government, it would be
something like a theocratic absolute monarchy and that is not what the United
States of America is.
The error of our ways
Besides, I worry when
people aver that someone elected to public office is chosen by God because it
suggests that any opposition to the person in what is essentially a democracy
is opposition to God. That is not how democracies work, if you are elected you
should be accountable and answerable to the electorate, that electorate is comprised
of human beings alive and eligible on earth and nowhere else.
When I became a
committed Christian in the mid-1980s, a whole cohort of student Christians were
taken by the Word of
Faith movement and our entertainment separate from secular engagements came
from viewing The 700 Club
on the Christian
Broadcasting Network, hosted by Pat Robertson and we
lapped up everything as he took us on an adventure of thought and perspective,
probably erroneous, but we did not know any better.
Mr. Pat Robertson who
is 90 with all his faculties does say the darndest things, you are sometimes
left with your jaw dropping to the floor or laughing so hard that you might
well choke on your tongue. Given much to histrionics and hyperbole, he has
suggested that calling Joe Biden the President-elect is Nazi propaganda. [Crooks
and Liars: Pat Robertson: Calling Joe Biden The President-Elect Is Nazi
Propaganda]
A narrative asking
for derision
One should dismiss
this as silliness, but he has a following and he is quite influential in the
conservative and evangelical circles that like we did a generation ago, people
will just believe any nonsense he says. Presidents-elect have mostly been
called by the networks long before the certification of the results except
where the election is disputed.
In this case, there
has been lots of conspiracy theories but no evidence presented in the courts
that could stand the test of examination and scrutiny, Joe Biden has won the
popular vote and by the certification of critical swing states, won the
Electoral College and as God is not the final arbiter in a democracy, there is
no fathomable prospect of Donald Trump being able to overturn the preponderance of
the counted tally of votes and the consequence it has shown to end his
presidency on the 20th of January 2021.
God is a mocker of
man
The evangelical
movement that has put all its eggs of faith, politics, and the manipulation of a
democracy by God in the basket of Donald Trump has been found on the losing
side of this election and they are stunned. The so-called prophecies of Donald
Trump’s victories has to be some familiar spirit whispering in their ears with
them believing that they were hearing from God. It is easy to fall in the way of
error, especially when you prostitute the anointing to political causes and
wedge issues.
Like the ass that had
to speak to Balaam the prophet
when he refused good counsel, it appears God is informing the evangelicals by
way of mocking their belief and making a joking spectacle of their being carried
along with the Trumpian charade that he is not a democrat, human government is what
it is human, not divine. The outcomes are decided by what human beings do as if
God was casting a vote, you would ask where does he reside and how did he
acquire that right, it would and should only one vote too.
Reading what Pat
Robertson said I was immediately inspired to look up Psalm 2 and reword two
verses below:
1 Why do the heathen
against democracy rage, And these evangelicals imagine a vain thing?
4 He that sitteth in
the heavens shall laugh: The Lord shall have them in derision.
Even I laugh and just
to buttress the point, Pat Robertson has form, as the blogs below indicate.
Blog - A
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