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I wonder what would benefit or who would benefit if indeed the new president was one who proclaimed himself as a Christian. Sure he might agree with other Christians or religious populations about the idea of abortion, about homosexuality rights, about other popular concerned issues in the Christian faith but really how much would that benefit us, more so all the other non-religious citizens? My question really is what if the Christian leader had some shady morals? Then what? Would we then have wished we had the guy with the good morals even if Christ wasn’t His first priority? Sometimes I feel religious groups get so wrapped up and concerned with keeping their foot in the door of power, afraid that if we don’t fight for keeping prayer in schools, and other issues that we will lose our popularity (if you want to call it that) in this country.

Hugh Halter in his book the tangible kingdom gives an example of a westernize paradigm where the idea of more power would result in more influence; a way of influencing people by institutions, by higher positions in the military, government, and business. Maybe this works for some folks, and maybe it doesn’t but really should our primary intentions during this election be to earn position in this country or to be primarily concerned with who can help us with the condition of the country. I’m not saying a Christian couldn’t do these things, but I don’t think our first reason for choosing a candidate should be based on his “religious stereotype” but rather his ideas, his beliefs and morals, not JUST based on his religious affiliation. Like stated earlier this week in a discussion I observed, one shouldn’t feel a certain way about a issue just because it’s “the Christian way or Christian view”.

A Christian leader can easily have some shady morals. Just because he is affiliated with OUR religious body doesn’t make him a better leader nor a better person. Yes, maybe if we did have a president who was our brother in Christ we might, just might add some more bodies to our churches or even have an easier way of getting our beliefs displayed to the rest of the country, But Then what? Shouldn’t we be living out our beliefs ourselves, instead of putting it all on the shoulders the Christian president simply because his daily actions are always in the spot light?

I guess to finally answer this question, I would say that my first approach would be to study both of the candidates views, their lifestyle, their beliefs, and actions towards issues and by this I would possibly be able to determine which religious group or non religious group they are connected with. Overall I think that a man with good morals who isn’t a Christian would be okay with me, depending on who it was he was running against and how moral his opponent was. I would hope that a good moral man would make wise choices and in the end the Lord will be the one who makes the end decision. We cannot forget who is really in power.