And the Political Darwin Award Goes to...

Christians who refused to vote for Romney all need to do a collective forehead slap for seizing defeat from the jaws of victory. Romney wasn't the ideal candidate, but he was immensely qualified, and people had pretty much figured out that after 4 years of blaming Bush, Obama was still not getting the job done and his policies were to blame. How then was Obama re-elected?

What the 2012 election boiled down to is that a slight majority of Americans want a big, all-powerful "something" to be their mother and father, to make sure everything is alright and everyone gets the same amount of cookies and juice. And instead of putting their faith and hope in a God they cannot see, they put it in a government and princes who cannot save.

It's not that there weren't enough Christians in America to avert this. No, millions of Christians triumphantly voted for Obama's social gospel, thinking that the government's job is to be the people's hired mercenary to do the practical acts of compassion they themselves are unwilling to perform or pay for. It's a self-gratifying sort of compassion that demands nothing of themselves, and all from someone else. I pray for the mercy of God on our nation, and strength for God's people to be the hands and feet of Jesus before the government fails.

But the Christian progressives really can't be blamed. Father, forgive them, they know not what they do. 

My beef is actually with the millions of Christians who know the progressive social gospel is bunk, yet refused to do anything about it.  In their obstinate political pharasaism they wanted a perfect candidate who couldn't win because he didn't exist. So they voted for Gary Johnson or Ron Paul, or simply sat on the sidelines and refused to vote, saying "it's all God's will" and "Jesus wouldn't like it if I voted for a Mormon," and a litany of other sanctimonious copouts. 

There's an organization that gives postumous awards to people whose greatest gift to the gene pool has been to remove themselves from it -- as evidenced by dying as a direct result of one's own embarrassingly foolish action. It's called the Darwin Awards.

How fitting, that the most rabid right-wing Christians (the type whose blood boils at the very mention of Charles Darwin), effectively removed themselves from the voter pool this election, by casting throwaway votes that worked against their own political aims by clearing the way for Obama's re-election, even though his animus toward conservative Christians is well-documented, and whose policies have demonstrably infringed on the rights and consciences of conservative Christians. They effectively picked the greater of two evils, all because Romney wasn't a magic bullet for recreating a Jefferonian conservative paradise?

It will be interesting to see how many votes were actually cast for Johnson and Paul, but we'll never know how many Christians simply stayed home this election. But for at least the next 4 years, each time our children come home from school regurgitating socialist propaganda, each time the decisions of a solid leftist majority on the Supreme Court hands down a ruling that undermines religious freedom, erodes parental rights, makes gay marriage the law of the land, each time we pay $5 for a gallon of gas, we can look to the fundamentalist holdouts and gently say, "thanks for nothing."