Presidential Poll – Winter 2016

The first-in-the-nation presidential primary is now history as New Hampshire voters turned out in record numbers. The results are not surprising. For weeks, polls have been predicting big wins for Senator Bernie Sanders and billionaire Donald Trump.

Politics and elections are a very accurate demonstration of the collective soul of a state or nation. People vote for particular candidates as a result of their sense of who they believe will do what they think is right and good.

These moral judgments are based on our inner moral compass and shaped by our spiritual and philosophical convictions. You can’t separate your vote from your convictions, be it Christian or the religion of humanism.

What does it mean?

New Hampshire sent a clear message with these results. The founding Puritan heritage of New Hampshire is a distant memory as these election results starkly demonstrate.

According to Pew Research, the religious affiliation in New Hampshire is Protestant 34% (a slight majority are mainline vs. evangelicals), Catholic 29% and non-religious 26%. You’d think because there’s a clear majority of Christian voters (63%) they would pick someone who reflected consistent Christian values.

Karl Marx, the father of socialism, stated that you can’t justify the socialism of Bernie Sanders by an appeal to the Bible. Yet, clearly many New Hampshire Christians voted for Sanders and his far left economic and social values.

Donald Trump also garnered significant Christian votes, although he has no consistent, proven track record on the issues that should really matter; the sanctity of life and traditional, natural marriage. Trump proudly said he wants to advance the homosexual agenda.

Syncretism is the practice of combining conflicting ideas and values and “gods” into a monstrous amalgamation. It is as old as mankind and here it is rearing its schizophrenic head.

How can Christians elect people who are at war with Christian values? They are either not true Christians, poor and uninformed stewards of their vote, or they lack a basic biblical worldview.

The vote in New Hampshire ought to be a wake up call to the Body of Christ. The salt is losing its saltiness and is being trampled, even as Jesus warned.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” (Matthew 5:13)

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