Politics
This isn't about you. If you feel strongly that you will be voting, and voting for "So-and-So," then I applaud you and respect that - no matter WHO your chosen party is this year.
This is my view about my role in politics. Not an attack on anyone else's views. Read it only if you're not going to complain at me later.
I am getting worn out, hearing about politics. At least (oddly enough) nobody at work talks about them. There is ONE redeeming quality about my job. Small consolation, I guess. The only news I can stand to watch is the Daily Show, because they can actually laugh at both sides without getting defensive. But even that wears on me sometimes, because I see how amicable people could be about their choice, instead of how polar and violent they are.
I didn't vote in the last election. Mostly because I didn't care. I was just 18 at the time and, from the little I knew about them, disliked both majority candidates. Until it becomes a viable option (which it won't), voting for a third party is an utter waste of my time. You can, but I won't. Therefore, I had no choice better than to abstain in 2000.
This time, I'm making it a point not to get involved. I have always had a severe distaste for popularity contests, and Nov. 2 will mark the world's largest one. I'm not abstaining to make a point. I can't make a point in this arena by being silent - it is, by design, inherently impossible. I abstain for my own personal convictions. In this election, people on both sides are angry and ravenous. I will not be part of that. I will not hand someone an ambiguous reason to hate me or make obtuse decisions about my mental processes and abilities. I will not have someone decide that it's my religion that makes me a democrat or republican, and let that taint their view of Jesus through me (which I've seen happen). I will not let my heart become entangled by partisan trumpeting, and let one more thing distract me from God, weaken my voice, and give me another reason to proclaim anything other than the Gospel of Christ.
"let no one boast in men..."
I didn't decide this flippantly, or lightly. I don't want to hear that it's my duty. It's not my duty, it's my right. Just like it's my right to say any profane thing I'd like, to worship any golden calf I can fashion, and to always act in my own perceived best interest.
But I don't do these things, or at least try not to. And I won't be partisan to any human, lest I dull my witness...lest I become an even poorer image of my Savior...lest poeple fail to see Him in me because of a politician that I chose to put my faith in.
"He who boasts is to boast in the Lord."
Now you know.
-Adam
This is my view about my role in politics. Not an attack on anyone else's views. Read it only if you're not going to complain at me later.
I am getting worn out, hearing about politics. At least (oddly enough) nobody at work talks about them. There is ONE redeeming quality about my job. Small consolation, I guess. The only news I can stand to watch is the Daily Show, because they can actually laugh at both sides without getting defensive. But even that wears on me sometimes, because I see how amicable people could be about their choice, instead of how polar and violent they are.
I didn't vote in the last election. Mostly because I didn't care. I was just 18 at the time and, from the little I knew about them, disliked both majority candidates. Until it becomes a viable option (which it won't), voting for a third party is an utter waste of my time. You can, but I won't. Therefore, I had no choice better than to abstain in 2000.
This time, I'm making it a point not to get involved. I have always had a severe distaste for popularity contests, and Nov. 2 will mark the world's largest one. I'm not abstaining to make a point. I can't make a point in this arena by being silent - it is, by design, inherently impossible. I abstain for my own personal convictions. In this election, people on both sides are angry and ravenous. I will not be part of that. I will not hand someone an ambiguous reason to hate me or make obtuse decisions about my mental processes and abilities. I will not have someone decide that it's my religion that makes me a democrat or republican, and let that taint their view of Jesus through me (which I've seen happen). I will not let my heart become entangled by partisan trumpeting, and let one more thing distract me from God, weaken my voice, and give me another reason to proclaim anything other than the Gospel of Christ.
"let no one boast in men..."
I didn't decide this flippantly, or lightly. I don't want to hear that it's my duty. It's not my duty, it's my right. Just like it's my right to say any profane thing I'd like, to worship any golden calf I can fashion, and to always act in my own perceived best interest.
But I don't do these things, or at least try not to. And I won't be partisan to any human, lest I dull my witness...lest I become an even poorer image of my Savior...lest poeple fail to see Him in me because of a politician that I chose to put my faith in.
"He who boasts is to boast in the Lord."
Now you know.
-Adam