Politics, Occupy Wall Street, and My thoughts

A series of thoughts have occupied my mind tonight; from politics to the eligibility of Mr Obama as president.  From Christianity to the Occupy Wall Street movement.  This post is to try and bring some order to my thoughts, and hopefully to share my opinion on how Christianity and politics should merge, or not merge as the case may be.

First of all is a question that I've been asked:  Should a Christian be concerned with politics?  My answer is yes.  Because only by knowing the issues can we vote for the best man (or woman in this day and age) to take the offices that become vacant.  We should be knowledgeable of those that are running for public office, and what they stand for.  This is not the job of the Church, but our own responsibility as people who live in the United States of America.  We need to educate ourselves on the issues, and where the candidates stand.

One such issue that has plagued Mr Obama throughout his entire presidency is his eligibility to be president in the first place.  Whether or not his birth certificate is legal.  Whether or not it's a forgery.  Me, I really don't have any opinion but this:  According to our constitution, anyone who runs for President must have been born in one of the 50 states.  Period.  No questions asked.  Whether or not that applies to Mr Obama is beyond me at this point.  I only wish that he had deigned to release his birth certificate sooner (IE, when first asked) so that we wouldn't have this issue.

Am I a birther?  Yes.  As I stated in my opinion above, and as is in our constitution, yes.

Politics is a melting pot of back door meetings, money changing hands, and empty words spoken from the lips of serpents in my mind.  Does that nullify the need to educate ourselves or to be aware of what is being said and done in our country?  No it does not.  We need to make the intelligent and most importantly PRAYERFUL choice on who we vote for in this next election.

As things stand at this time, we who are minister cannot say who to vote for.  We can make people aware of the issues at hand, and where the Bible stands on these issues, but we cannot (and I would not) tell you how to vote.  This is a personal decision between yourself and God, as a result of prayer and scripture reading.

Many times I will avoid political discussions in their entirety, but tonight I felt I needed to talk on these issues a bit.  One of the prevalent issues going on right now is Occupy Wall Street.  I stand on the side that says that a lot of what these people are talking about........is Marxist.  We need to be careful about situations like this, because they can lead to larger situations that would infringe upon freedoms and liberties that we hold for granted.  Occupy Wall Street has some proponents in Christianity.  And Occupy Wall Street has detractors in Christianity.  I myself am a detractor.  I don't feel that this will accomplish much of anything, and if it did it would only lead to more of a socialistic stance for our government.