A political pollster asked a woman about her preference in the upcoming election. She responded, “I’m a Christian, I’ve never voted in my life and never intend to. It might encourage them.” This view casts God and government as mortal enemies. It suggests that while saints are engaged in pious introspection, sinners run the world.

The other extreme response is for a person to give complete uncritical loyalty to the political “powers that be.” The idea is that the political decision-maker has been placed there by the Divine and is to be obeyed no matter what. Any disagreement is seen as unpatriotic.

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