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When the Church refuses to engage in politics, this happens
- By Evan Keal
- General Politics
- 4 Replies
I believe it’s my duty as a Christian to vote, serve, and take part in the life of my country — but I also believe the government must stay secular. Faith should guide hearts, not write laws. Our government cannot serve all people justly — in law, in policy, or in leadership — if it becomes Christian-centered. The moment faith takes the driver’s seat in government; equality takes a back seat. I live Christ-centered in my civic life, but I stand for a secular state — because true faith doesn’t need power to be true, and justice can’t exist where one religion rules them all.It’s one of the great paradoxes of our time. Many conservative pastors courageously preach a biblical worldview from their pulpits — defending life, marriage, and religious freedom — yet when it comes to the political process, they retreat into silence. They will preach about righteousness, but when Christian candidates who share their values ask for help — something as simple as gathering signatures to get on the ballot — they often decline.
This reluctance doesn’t just hurt individual candidates; it weakens the Church’s ability to influence culture. It leaves the field open for those whose values are hostile to the faith.
Pastors on the Left have no such reservations. As The Heart of Apostasy points out, churches aligned with progressive movements openly support initiatives like the Black Church PAC, mobilizing voters and resources for liberal causes. They see politics as an extension of their theology — a vehicle for advancing what they believe is justice. Meanwhile, too many conservative pastors treat the political process as “unspiritual,” as if God’s sovereignty ends at the voting booth.
This is more than perplexing — it’s tragic.
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When the Church refuses to engage in politics, this happens
Too many conservative pastors treat the political process as unspiritual, as if God s sovereignty ends at the voting boothwww.christianpost.com
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Heating up down under
- By eclipsenow
- Physical & Life Sciences
- 53 Replies
True!
And yet so is this. As I said above:-
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The rest of us are just reading the science. You know - the same science that Exxon discovered and verified in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Pretty accurate given their model was developed over 40 years ago!
Shame Exxon legally bound all the climate guys they hired and signed them up to the strictest NDA's for decades.
But hey - just goes to show. This climate model stuff? It works!
Many US cities and States are currently suing Exxon for lying to the public for 4 decades.
Trump is lying to the public about climate change as well.
What side do you want to be on?
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Heating up down under
- Physical & Life Sciences
- 53 Replies
There were very hot days in Australia before 1910.That is true. It's a desert surrounded by a skid-mark of green.
But the truth you just posted does not contradict the scientific evidence.
"People avoid living in deserts and like the beach" does NOT disprove "Australia's starting to cook in accordance with climate change."
Both statements can be true. Both ARE true!
Unless - of course - you are politically wedded to an anti-science proposition.
Then - being MAGA - you can just believe anything you want to. Apparently. Conservatives used to be about conserving nature, not practicing a radical experiment by altering the atmosphere of the entire planet!
Eunice Foote discovered CO2 trapped heat way back in 1956.
She put thermometers in equal glass jars out in the same sun, and filled them with different gases.
The CO2 jar warmed higher, methane even more.
This is backyard science - but MAGA denies it.
Why is that? Oh yeah - big funding from Koch brothers and Exxon.
Trump gives billionaires tax cuts and kicks the bottom 16 million Americans off healthcare and calls it a "Big Beautiful Bill." Go figure.
REALITY:"Australia, on average, has warmed by 1.51 ± 0.23 °C since national records began in 1910, with most warming occurring since 1950. Every decade since 1950 has been warmer than preceding decades. The warming in Australia is consistent with global trends, with the degree of warming similar to the overall average across the world’s land areas."
Australia's changing climate
Australia's weather and climate including temperature, fire weather, rainfall, heavy rainfall, streamflow, tropical cyclones, snowfall: State of the Climate 2024www.csiro.au
So hot that some people died.
In late1890s, across eastern Australia, over 430 people died due to the heat. Many deaths were sudden and occurred in public spaces—people reportedly collapsed in the streets and died without regaining consciousness.
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