I ignore such salacious, morally complicated stories as the Kim Davis fiasco, but the bleating on Facebook has been hard to ignore. I have little true opinion about it since it has no direct bearing on my life, but it does serve as a working example of competing loyalties that demand full allegiance.
As a general rule of wisdom, Christians should have no involvement in a secular government, especially as one as powerful and pervasive as the American one*, not even as voters. As always, because God can do what He wants and therefore can bring anything He wants under your dominion, there are exceptions based on what God has for you.
Don’t get caught up in the technicalities. To wit, the Federal Reserve is not a government entity but it might as well be, de facto. Everyone has to be involved in some way because of the nature of representative democracy in a federated republic. How willing are you to be employed as an x or a y for the Cosa Nostra or the Yakuza? That’s the moral analogy to keep in mind.
Don’t take my word for it. Don’t let me dictate directly all of this for you, but regard it as a warning for consideration.
* This, I think, holds true for all “branches,” but also its enforcement and defensive arms. And as further general advice related to this: chances are, God doesn’t want you to travel halfway around the world to kill poor brown people and destroy their property.
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Amen, Brother! Render unto Caesar: If you work for the government, you have to accept the rules or accept the price for not obeying the rules. She is not persecuted, just silly enough to stand in a bad place.
I went back and forth about whether she made the right decision(s) or not in this whole series, because I just HAVE to have an opinion on it. The most incorrect decision I think is her choice to get involved at all.
It’s quite refreshing to see that there are others who believe that not voting is not necessarily done out of laziness (as is generally assumed), but that there are moral reasons for refraining from it.
There’s also practical reasons, in that it has no real bearing on the outcome. On local elections, this might not be true, but in larger ones I think it does.