Should Christians be involved in politics? Isn’t this like asking: should Christians be involved with traditions? How can a creature, with extension into space and time, not be a ‘political animal’ / a ‘societal animal’ embedded in a web of human interrelations that are inimically “political?” It isn’t a matter of whether or not Christians should be involved in politics, but whether or not we will operate from good politics or bad politics. As Christians, just as our Lord, we live in a concrete bodiedness that inhabits shared space with non-Christians. Because this world is God’s Kingdom in Christ, indeed, a Kingdom not yet fully consummate; because He has elected all of humanity in Himself in Christ, the parables of God’s Kingdom are present and available for all who will. In other words: even though not all people have repented and recognized their election in the humanity of Jesus Christ, this does not mean that the Kingdom is not presently present and in-breaking ever afresh and anew into all of our lives. What I am driving at is this: it is possible for the ‘world’ to work for the good even if the world is not fully participant in that good, in a spiritually actualized sense, in Jesus Christ. As such, since human being, simpliciter, is ‘political,’ and since God’s Kingdom is actively irrupting this world system with His righteous reality (through Christian witness, ‘salt and light’), it is possible for various demographics of human being to imbibe this righteous reality more than other demographics (or “political parties”). The Christian witness is to affirm, even those areas of the world that are recognizing the good of the parables of God’s Kingdom in Christ, and fight for that type of righteousness to rule and reign. The Christians’ common ground with the world, though, is not based on natural law; instead, it is based on the indicative of God’s grace, which is God for us, for the world in Jesus Christ. Choosing life rather than death is the ultimate form of Christian witness vis-à-vis the Gospel.

This makes the choice easy this election cycle. There is a clear choice. We can choose the party of destruction, the party that has been behind the slaughter of babies’ lives in the womb; the party that has promoted racism in the inner-cities of America; the party that seeks power and tyranny at all costs. Or we can choose the party that is currently the most radically pro-life, and pro human flourishing that there has ever been in the USA. The choice is easy. Ultimately the politics of this world, no matter which way they slide, will fail. There is only One who can handle the weight of all the governments of the world on His shoulders: i.e. Jesus Christ. But in the mean time we are called to be salt and light; we are called to choose life, not death. If you cannot see what party is the one aligned with the sanctity of life then maybe my blog isn’t the one for you. I am political, and so are you. If you cannot admit that, as a Christian, you’re a Docetist. Love you.