Politicians bring joy?

 

I recently saw a post from a person in the Christian camp, who is also a pastor pointing to the reasons he will be voting for a particular presidential candidate this November. He somewhat listed off some of the fruit of the Spirit found in the book of Galatians, claiming his candidate of choice represents joy, and other attributes, while the other represented meanness and selfishness. There are two things I want to address with this.

1. Politicians are trying to sell to you. It doesn’t matter if it is Kamala Harris, Donald Trump or any other politicians from the federal to the local level, they want to get elected. To suggest that any political candidate truly represents the fruit of the Spirit, and that is reason enough to vote for them is frankly vapid. A politician wants to get elected, that’s what they are out there campaigning for votes. It doesn’t matter if you are Republican or Democrat, your chosen leader does not embody the fruit of the Spirit. And whether they “bring joy” or not, I just about guarantee it is manufactured. If you are bought in, it is from gullibility, or more nefarious desires to convince people to vote against their conscience because the other person is mean.

2. To become a bit more pointed and direct. No one is able to claim they are a politician for the joy when there is an outright unapologetic support for no limit, on demand intentional killing of children. In this conversation I don’t care about economic or foreign policy discussions (as important as they may be). While one side is slowly moving away from the strong pro-life position it has held for a long time, the other side has no legs to stand on. How can there be joy when any perception of that emotion is built off of the backs of destroyed humans for the sake of personal convenience?

This election season remain light & salty. Don’t become unnecessarily persuaded by the arguments of either side. Loving God and loving people in truth is primary, so go and do that.