Just to be clear, I don’t think myself some paragon of virtue. I have plenty to answer for that I am not looking forward to.
But I do not understand how it can be that a christian of any flavor can openly in public say that ‘some’ evil is OK when we are commanded to fight it.
It’s like a petty crime vs a felony. No one wants ol’ sparky for jaywalking offenses but who thinks promoting jaywalking is a good thing?
No matter how this gets sliced it’s down to good/bad. And 2 years out from the next presidential Why on earth is there a single conservative already making excuses and priming the pump to go ‘evil’ again?
Baffling. Or willful sabotage.
And you have to keep remembering that nobody on the face of this earth is “all good.”
No, not even wonderful you.
The best we can hope for is saved sinner.
There are people who will wisely hold back fratricidal fire even when the urge for vengeance is almost unbearable.
One of the most scathing parts of Paul’s description of the Roman society is that not only did the people do all kinds of evil things but they ALSO APPROVE OF THOSE WHO PRACTICE THEM. It’s one thing to fall, be forgiven, and start afresh with God’s grace. It’s another thing altogether to boast of evil as though it was good, and to approve of those who do evil.
The one letter to the editor that I’ve written in the last 4 or so years pointed out that Mitt Romney forced Catholic hospitals to give abortifacients which they believe to be murder.
In the end I plugged my nose and voted for Romney in the general after voting against him in the primary. It was a very tough decision because there is so much about Romney that was wrong. I did believe that the unjust deaths under Obama would be more than those under Romney, and for the sake of the people whose lives could be preserved with somebody other than Obama in the White House, I plugged my nose. I cannot bring myself to listen to the “pro-lifers” (such as the National Right to Life) who endorsed Romney as pro-life in the primary. They had a different choice they could have made that could have kept BOTH Obama and Romney, the abortion-pushers, out of office, but for the sake of money they chose to support evil when there was a good choice that could have been made.
I understand why some people’s consciences told them not to pull the lever for Romney even if it meant that Obama would be able to kill even more people with his policies. Like I said, it was a very tough choice to make. It probably sounds mushy, but in the end I think what God looks on is the heart - why a person did what they did when either choice would result in innocent deaths. I could argue either side and go back and forth in my own mind over what is better.
Either way, I’m still going to point out the murder of abortion, the robbery of redistribution of wealth, the lawlessness, etc. I have to fight those things, even if I vote for somebody who gets at least some of it wrong. Through all of life, even when we keep a friendship through thick and thin, we’re still fighting the sin and garbage in our friend just as we’re fighting it in ourselves. We don’t tolerate the sin, even when we love and bear with the friend. And the same thing holds true for political alliances. No politician is perfect, and to believe in anybody is to believe in somebody who sometimes gets it wrong. We can still make political choices based on who gets the most important things right, and then work with them to try to bring them around on the other things. I guess it’s sort of like marriage that way too.
Sorry to be so long.