Editor, The Sun
(March 1998 – In response to a forum asking if it was a good thing that some Evangelical conservatives switched from the Republican Party to the “American Heritage Party”. The last paragraph was edited out by the Sun and not published.)
Followers of Jesus will always be manipulated by the rulers of this world as long as they allow themselves to be entangled in worldly conflicts. The Republicans have used politically zealous Christians and so will the U.S. Taxpayers Party. The worldly tendency is to see a conflict in terms of “good guys and bad guys”, pick a side and jump on. Christians have been seduced through the centuries to do this very thing, not realizing that there are no “good guys”.
Satan works both sides of every worldly conflict. The only way followers of Jesus can do what we are called to do is by pulling out of the world system’s “Hegelian Dialectic”. We are called to a heavenly citizenship in which we are ambassadors for Christ to this foreign world system; rescuing people out of this system, instead of trying to reconstruct the world system.
This state’s affiliate to the U.S. Taxpayers Party is yet another example of “red- white-and-blue” idolatry: the American Heritage Party. This idolatry is based upon a false gospel of “morality” and “cultural values”. But there is only one Gospel as referred to by Paul, “For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.”
Rather than building the Kingdom of God, which Jesus said is not of this earth, Christian political activists yoke themselves with the Harlot of Revelation 17: the counterfeit-Christian religious system that prostitutes itself with the political and economic rulers of this world.
Crusades for “Morality”, Political Action, Social Activism – Hegelian Dialectic