OPINION:
In the wake of massive Democrat midterm wins, political strategist Tiffany Marie Brannon went on News24 and said, “One very telling demographic was that out of the evangelical church-attending Christians,” “only 17 percent showed up to vote in this election.”
Seventeen percent. Fewer than a fifth of America’s self-professed Christians participated in an election that could swing the fate of the nation — its laws, its culture, its very moral compass — for years to come.
By itself, that statistic is shocking and horrible. After all, who knows better than the Christian population how to keep intact God-given rights and liberties for the individual? Not the atheists. Not the humanists. Not the secularists.
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America’s founding was premised on the idea that godly people would run the government, serving in obedience to biblically based ideas and principles.
The framers of the Constitution knew the more immoral the people became, the more laws and punishments would be needed to try to bring them in line. They knew that as the nation turned down a path of immorality, so, too, it would turn toward a path of Big Government — and that would bring even louder and more frequent demands for an even bigger government to fix the chaos, fix the unrest, fix the societal disparities, fix all that ails.
They knew that godly people behave morally not so much because of the laws of humanity, but rather due to the laws of God and a concern over a judgment day and the desire for an afterlife in Heaven. And conversely, they knew that immoral people without concern for God and an afterlife would stretch the boundaries of what constitutes civil society and order — leading to chaos and unrest and societal disparities and all that ails.
A free society requires citizens who can self-govern, self-regulate, use self-restraint. Those are the building blocks of a government that’s limited in powers. Those are the character traits of what the Bible teaches as right and proper for men and women to possess.
So when only 17 percent of self-identifying Christians vote in an election — it’s significant. It’s hugely significant. It’s impossible to have God-given rights and liberties if God is removed from the equation; it’s impossible to maintain a godly form of governance if godly citizens don’t vote and godly citizens don’t serve in political office.
But that’s just one side of the midterm turnout tragedy.
The other side is this: “Now compare that to something like the Muslim population, the American Arab population, and the numbers coming out are about 70 percent,” Brannon said to News24.
The math isn’t hard to figure.
Few Christians voting. Many Muslims voting. In a nation like America, the government represents the people. If trends continue, the calculation is this: Shariah on U.S. soil is a very real possibility.
Watch for the growing union of Islamists with the Democrat Party.
Watch for the increasing meeting of these two factions’ collectivist agendas — the Democrats, for an end game of Marxism and total control; the Islamists, for an end game of Shariah and total control.
Individualism stands in their way.
More than that, the national identity of God-given rights and liberties for the individual would stand in their way.
But Christians aren’t voting anymore, so America is losing that identity.
When this country falls, and Americans lose freedoms, and the Constitution becomes a thing of the past, it’ll be due to the failings of Christians.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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