Remember when you played house as a kid? Everyone wanted to be the parents because they got to make the rules. If you weren't the parent the next best thing was if one of your friends was the parent because they could feed you chocolate and give you ponies. The worst possible scenario was getting that mean girl who had been held back and was therefore older and thought that meant she was already the boss of you. She'd make everyone lay down and pretend it was nap time.
But in the end it didn't really matter who got to play the parents because regardless of how awesome or horrible they were, they were only pretending to be in charge. Your best friend could decree that every Monday was "Ice Cream for Dinner" day and yet your real mom was still going to make sure there were green beans on your plate that night.
Real Mom and Dad's rules still applied, regardless of what fake mom or dad said.
And so it is with politics and God.
Arguments abound over whether you can be Christian and still belong to a certain party. It's a ridiculous question all around.
First, the only government (let alone party) God endorses is a Theocracy where He is in charge. He only gave the Israelites a king because they begged and whined for one, but He still knew it wasn't a good idea, and He told them so. And they have had no end of problems.
Sure they had good kings now and then, but even the greatest committed HUGE moral failures that impacted them negatively. David took a census when God told him not to and massive chunk of the Israelites were smite because of it.
Whoops.
And then there were the bad ones. Ahab comes to mind. As bad as it got with the horrible kings, they all died eventually...and God was still around, and His rules still applied. He got Israel through persecutions and famines and war brought on by kings who were anywhere from unprepared all the way to evil raving lunatics.
And this is where my responsibility to be involved in politics confuses me.
Is it my duty to my God to fight the evil system?
Or should I ignore the political realm entirely because there's nothing I can do about it anyway?
Probabaly somewhere in between, but I was never an "in between" sort of girl. I like the extreme ends of the spectrum.
And so, I cast my measly unimportant and ineffectual vote for responsible individuals who have godly morals. (...or rather I would if anyone like that would come along.)
And in the meantime, while I'm stuck with BObo in office, I will watch and wait for the inevitable day when he leaves office. Whether that be in 4 years or 8....or after he declares himself ruler forever a la Ceasar or Castro and dies in a nursing home as a shriveled prune.
Eventually he will leave office, as will everyone else. And the only question is will the successors be worse? Or will we get a temporary reprieve?
Either way, the rules never change, only the play pretend leaders.
Like children playing house.
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