Francis Schaeffer's Warning to the Real Winners

Who are the real winners, well in this election it appears that the real winners are the so-callled evangelicals. (I refer to them as 'so-called' because who knows what kind of doctrine these evangelicals believe.) As I've said before that the Republicans pander to the evangelicals, now more than ever the Republicans owe the evangelicals. The exit polls early in the day showed the Kerry was going to win, the exit polls were so decidedly in Kerry's favor that Bush had begun to lose hope that he would win the election, but as the results began to return Bush began to gain a lead over Kerry. Almost all of the political anaylysts attribute Bush's victory to the record turnout from the evangelicals. Why do I think the evangelicals are the real winners of this election? Because now the Democrats will have to begin to pander to the evangelicals - there are many states where the Democrates don't even compete with the Republicans. In fact some people claim that the Democrats are no longer a national party. The Republicans have a governor in California, New York, and Massachusets, three of the so-called liberal states. I don't believe that there are any Democrat governors in the most conservative states. So in order for the Democrats to better compete with the Republicans, the Democrats will have to begin to take the evangelicals more seriously, this is just a fact. If the evangelicals will be the most powerful force in every election, which it appears to have been the case, then Democrats will only win the presidential office by pandering to the evangelicals just as the Republicans have. Eventually, if the Democrats do pander to the evangelicals, a third party will be formed, probably to the left of the Democrats.

What have the evangelicals won? In 11 states same-sex marriage was banned. The Republican lead in the House and Senate was increased over the Democrats. Now in the Senate the Republicans hold 55 seats. When it comes time to appoint supreme court justices, the more moderate pro-life democrats may take the side of Republicans. This is why many liberals are concerned, there is a greater than 50% chance that Roe v. Wade could be overturned in the future. (Abortion in my opinion is the greatest injustice in the world.) So the evangelicals have come out of this election as a major political force. (BTW, I'm a libertarian, with a pro-life argument.)

What is Francis Schaeffer's warning to the evangelicals. Well, first let me say a little bit about Schaeffer, his is a reformed apologist who studied under Cornelius van Til. Schaeffer has much to say about the post-Christian culture in the U.S. That's right POST-CHRISTIAN CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. This is not a Christian nation, regardless of what the evangelicals think. One of the things that Schaeffer says is imagine the power to transform our culture that we would have if just 20% of the United States citizens were orthodox evangelical Christians who knew their doctrine and acted out on what they believed. I think Schaeffer has a good point, supposedly there is double or triple of 20% of the people in this country who claim to be evangelical. All I'll point to is the divorce rate among evangelicals - does that look like they act out on orthodox biblical beliefs? Now Schaeffer has a warning to today's evangelicals, don't get caught up in your alliances. What does this mean? Evangelicals who have partnered with Republicans to make moral gains, banning same-sex marriage, seeking to overturn Roe v. Wade, should not forget who their first allegience is to - God. Sometimes or a lot of times, evangelicals get the Republican Party confused with Christianity. The Republican Party is not ordained by God, I don't care what the evangelicals say. This is what Schaeffer is warning evangelicals about, it's good to ban abortion, but just remember, the Republican Party doesn't care about orthodox theology, the Republican party cares about staying in political power. If the Democrats come with a better deal, join a new alliance.