Meandering Thoughts On Election

Overall, I think we have reached the nadir of identity politics. Those of us with half a brain in our head realize that neither Obama nor Palin are qualified to be on their respective tickets but in the spirit of affirmative action we have nominated two unqualified people simply because of the amount of their melanin and because they have a uterus.

Also, I’ve been mulling the whole celebrity thing. First Obama reaches celebrity status and then Palin turns around and goes celebrity. It’s as if the mentality that created and attracts viewers to “The American Idol” has infused the Presidential campaign. I just don’t get it. Qualifications are irrelevant. All that is important is glitz.

This may be the strangest campaign cycle that I’ve ever studied and I’ve studied most of them. A black guy with a Muslim name who boasts about being a community organizer and who has lifelong ties to racists (Jeremiah Wright), terrorists (William Ayers), and Marxists (Saul Alinsky). A Pentecostal woman at the bottom of the ticket getting far more attention than the guy at the top of the ticket. Christians violating their historic convictions on God’s created order that teaches that men are to men lead in order to vote for a Pentecostal woman, who, for all we know may get a “word from the Lord” to bomb Iran.

Lewis Carroll couldn’t have created all this strangeness on his best day.

Sanity is hard to come by.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

3 thoughts on “Meandering Thoughts On Election”

  1. Future insane scenario:

    McCain/Palin get elected. McCain dies in
    office. Palin chooses Ron Paul as new
    VP. Palin resigns to take care of children
    full time….

    Reply

  2. Future insane scenario:

    McCain/Palin get elected. McCain dies in
    office from old age. Palin chooses Ron Paul as new
    VP. Palin resigns to take care of children
    full time….

    Reply

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