Christian Backing Conservatives – Why – Part I

It seems that every time I hear about Christians doing a lock-step support of Conservative politicians seems to be in recent years based upon a single issue. That issue is, of course, abortion.

Regardless of the character of the politician, regardless of the nature of the politician’s other issues, regardless of anything else about the politician; if the politician is against abortion the Christians seem to vote and support those politicians without a single bit of issue with them. These Christians will lie, they will cheat, they will compromise their value system in order to defend and support these politicians against opponents as long as their politician supports the anti-abortion platform.

They base this on their interpretation of the scriptures but they have a problem there. Why? Because the scriptures mention unborn children 10 times in the Bible and I must say are quite ambiguous about the nature of unborn children. Go ahead; look it up. Some of the references are quite scary. See Deuteronomy 28:18,53 and Hosea 13:16 for a couple of really nasty example of God’s will on this. And as for Jesus; he never makes any mention of abortion at all. Not once, never, nada.

So you see, abortion was not a big issue in the Bible. I am not saying that abortion and ones stand on abortion is not important. I am saying that in the Bible is was not an overriding issue that dictated the direction of how mankind was supposed to conduct ones life. And the Bible is and should be the guide for ones conduct if on is a good Christian.

Thus Christians in America are basing their choice of their leaders on one, I repeat one, issue that was of so little importance that it does not qualify for clarification in the Bible. I do not think that anyone but the most self appointed self righteous can speak of God’s heart and that if they do they are wrong. However, I suspect that the pathway to heaven is not dictated based upon ones stand on the issue of abortion.