In this video a CNN reporter schools a pastor in basic Christian values showing just how far some Christian leaders have fallen under the temptation of Satan to seek power in politics...
Franklin Graham wants the nation to pray for Trump on Sunday. Some Christians aren't happy - CNN
Just thought I would share (my disgust), but, of course, any and all sincere comments welcome.
I quite agree. I don't think there should be no Christian politicians, because I think Christians should use whatever skills they happen to have to help improve the world. But Christianity always does itself immeasurable harm when it connects itself to a political movement. God doesn't have a political party, and a sincere Christian can just as easily be a Republican or a Democrat. Worldly ideologies are inferior and shallow compared to Christian truth, but they have the power to corrupt the Gospel.
In my own country, the United Kingdom, the Christian church did itself similar harm by allowing itself to be co-opted as a justification for war. The only time in British society that there are now outward displays of religiosity are during Remembrance Day, when we remember those who gave their lives during the world wars of the twentieth century. These are noble celebrations of brave men and women, and I take part in them enthusiastically, but I can't help feeling that there is something of a confusion of patriotism and faith going on.
In my home town, there is a war memorial inscribed with the biblical but rather un-Christian boast 'Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.' Just as Franklin Graham tries to persuade Christians that they are doing God's will by supporting a political party, in Britain we were persuaded that we were doing Christ's work by defending our nation in war. But war, even if it is sometimes necessary, does terrible things to men's souls - it is the enemy of goodwill, charity and innocence. Moreover, our politicians then co-opted this cult of just war to legitimise their own conflicts, far less moral or clear-cut than the Second World War - Malaya, Suez, Iraq.
The results were inevitable. The churches were full before 1914, half empty before 1939, and three-quarters empty after 1945. The statistics are that clear, and that harrowing. Let the church always be wary of aligning itself with a political faction.
