Must Evangelicals Dirty Their Hands In Politics – Part 2

[Continued from last week. If you missed Part 1, you can read it here.]

Suddenly, politics didn’t seem so “this worldly” to me any more. I started to make the heavenly connections and began to see how politics was really an important means to an end – God’s end – in this case, the protection of innocent human life.

I thought, “What were Christians doing leading up to that awful Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973?” Someone had obviously been asleep at the switch. As Edmund Burke rightly observed, “All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.” Now the damage of Roe v. Wade had to be undone. Sure, prayer would be needed and changed hearts would be nice; that’s where the gospel comes in. But, ultimately, it would take political action to accomplish the task. Read more

Socialism in America: A Revolution in the Making

Our Guest Blogger is Jan Markell, host of Understanding the Times radio program.  Find out more at OliveTreeViews.org.

In recent weeks it has become more obvious that America is on the yellow-brick road to Socialism.

In 1962 Russian Premier Krushchev said, “We can’t expect the American people to jump from capitalism to Communism but we can assist their leaders by giving them small amounts of Socialism until they awaken one day to find out they have Communism.”  He also said that Communism would take over America “without firing a shot.” Read more

Socialism: What is it, Has it Come to America, and What Does it Mean for Christians?

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The U.S. Senate voted this week on a $700 billion government bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the guarantors of about half of mortgages in this country. In September, the government bailed out AIG, the 18th largest company in the world, at a cost of $85 billion.

The dictionary definition of socialism is “A social system in which the means of producing and distributing goods are owned collectively and political power is exercised by the whole community.” Read more

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