Jumping on the Bandwagon

This is one thing about us Christians that really irks me. The “He’s got a FISH on his business card so I’ll do business with him” mentality. In big news lately, it’s the WWJVF mentality (Who Would Jesus Vote For?). If you follow politics at all, you know that Huckabee won in Iowa, with Mitt Romney taking a close second. Furthermore, most polling data seems to indicate that it was the evangelical vote that sunk Romney and pushed Huckabee into the lead. I’m thinking that’s a very scary thing.

I believe it was Martin Luther who said that it’s better to elect a “wise Turk” rather than a stupid Christian. His point, obviously, was that just because the Window Cleaning Dude has a fish on his business card doesn’t mean that a) he’s a better window washer and b) doesn’t mean that he’s any wiser. The same goes for voting for Huckabee. Yes the guy is a pastor/preacher. Yes, he seems to hold to a biblical framework. At least he talks a good talk. But you have to look at the walkin, not just the talkin.

The guys smarmy. For example, he says he’s not going to run an anti-Mitt ad, because it attacks the other candidate. But then he shows the ad he’s not going to run to newsmen. He makes (cough, cough) mistakes in having the ad pulled, and it (apparently) runs in Iowa anyway. His words say one thing, his actions say another.

Seemingly, he isn’t a “wise Turk” either. Especially when it comes to dealing with ‘radical Muslims': “We must first destroy existing terrorist groups and then attack the underlying conditions that breed them: the lack of basic sanitation, health care, education, jobs, a free press, fair courts — which all translates into a lack of opportunity and hope.”

Don’t assume that just because he believes that there was a literal Adam and Eve that he’s the right guy for the job. The angel in the garden talked a good talk too-and ended up being a snake in the grass.

For further reading, you may also want to check out this article by Slublog