When a politician in America describes themselves as “a person of faith”, what are they telling us about themselves?
Nothing.
Nothing good, anyway.
Everyone has faith and everyone is a person, so claiming to be a “person of faith” literally says tells us nothing about the person making the claim.
As we all know (or ought to by now), politicians are well known for constantly striving to find catchy new ways of sounding like they’re taking a hard, principled stand when, in fact, they’re really not taking a stand at all. Sadly, that’s what’s usually going on when the “person of faith”, “man of faith” or “woman of faith” label is deployed.
The idea is for the politician in question to appear to a target group – usually Christians – as though they’re not only a member of the target group, but a bold advocate for…whatever it is that the group in question might want a politician to be a bold advocate for.
The problem for these politicians and those that follow/enable them is that faith is only as good or meaningful as the object in which it is placed. Having faith, in this context, is as likely to be a dangerous and destructive thing as it is to be a good and helpful one.
If you have faith in Allah, Lucifer, or any other false god figure, your faith is a wrecking ball that will destroy much on its way to its own well deserved spot in Hell.
If you have primary faith in secular education, secular approaches to God’s creation of science, America, patriotism, money, the military, economic success, or any other otherwise good thing (when subjected to and submissive to Christ as Lord in every legal/political/economic detail), that faith too is a flamethrower on the verge of burning down even the things it’s proponent claims or pretends to love.
Primary faith in anything or anyone but Christ is evil. It is destructive. It always and inevitably leads deeper into darkness and ultimately to death.
It is, in a word, idolatry.
And idolatry always kills in God’s creation.
So it’s very important for us to know that when a calculating type chooses “person of faith” as their label, they know exactly what they’re doing, and what they’re doing isn’t good.
It’s not good for them. It’s not good for us. It’s not good for our culture and civilization.
It’s deceptive and destructive.
When they claim “faith” without defining anything about the object or goal of that faith, they’re reaching for the credit or affirmation of being associated with whatever the hearer of the claim pours into its meaning while not actually making any real association with or commitment to that thing (whatever it is), thereby avoiding offending anyone who might not like the specific object of faith that would be identified in an actual clear and biblically sound profession like: “I’m a Christian” or “Jesus is Lord”.
The average American hates that stuff.
In our unconverted, unrepentant, natural condition, we hate the exclusivity of Christianity.
We hate Jesus’ exclusive claim to mandatory lordship over us in every area of life (as opposed to maybe just on Sundays or during prayer time).
That hatred pervades even most “conservative Christians” in America these days. The American “Christian” sub-culture is loaded with and defined by an open disdain for the lordship of Jesus in detail.
Americans love faith…as long as it’s vague and doesn’t ruffle any feathers.
In other words: We love faith as long as it’s not clearly articulated Christian faith, which centers on our need to repent of our self-referential rebellion against the lordship of Christ and advocates our submission to Him in every political, legal, economic, educational, and artistic thought or action. (See: The Gospel-fueled Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20.)
To be sure, there are many actual, sincere (and sincerely confused and/or ignorant) Brothers and Sisters out there in the political ream (and others) who play this game without thinking. Most of those reading can personally relate to this. I know I can.
Even so, if we love these people, we will not let them continue in this destructive blindness.
If we love them, we will confront and correct them, kindly whenever possible and never out of arrogance or a spirit of self-centered pride, but out of a true love for them, the culture they influence, and the Christ who is Lord above all things in America and everywhere else.
If you’ve benefitted from the work done at Fire Breathing Christian, we ask that you
consider financially supporting the cause. You can do this in one of three ways:
You can drop a few bucks in the tip jar by making a one-time donation through PayPal.
You can also donate using cryptocurrencies at the following locations:
- Bitcoin (BTC) at 1Mu4a75yjroSLrMZiQFLoD66JhumVvH6E1
- Ethereum (ETH) at 0x7Be44b19C1ADDC2322AFD18cad206D9DcD37dB27
- Litecoin (LTC) at LN9AMhvasWRHhw25DCxvR9XtuySceKrs87
To sign up for your own cryptocurrency wallet (and receive $10 free bitcoin with your first $100 purchase), please click here.
You can make a regular contribution by joining our monthly support team.
You can use our Amazon.com affiliate link every time you order anything at Amazon.com.
We depend on God’s provision through His faithful people.
Thank you for supporting Fire Breathing Christian!
Please check out our video channel and our news satire site.
You can also help support the Fire Breathing Christian mission by checking out these books:
Stupid Elephant Tricks – The Other Progressive Party’s War on Christianity takes a painful but much needed look at how Christ-less “conservatism” has captivated Christians and co-opted them into helping march the culture ever deeper into darkness:
_____________________________________________________
The Beginning of Knowledge: Christ as Truth in Apologetics is an approachable, easy to read introduction to Christ-centered apologetics:
_____________________________________________________
Apathetic Christianity: The Zombie Religion of American Churchianity explores the tragic true horror story of all-American dead religion masquerading as Christianity:
_____________________________________________________
On Education is a compilation of some of the most provocative and compelling Fire Breathing Christian articles on the subject of children’s education:
_____________________________________________________
There Is No “God-Given Right” To Worship False Gods is a compilation of some of the most provocative Fire Breathing Christian articles on the subject of America’s embrace of a satanic approach to religious liberty:
_____________________________________________________
Fire Breathing Christians – The Common Believer’s Call to Reformation, Revival, and Revolution is the book that first presented the FBC mission to apply the Gospel-fueled Great Commission in every realm of God’s creation:
_____________________________________________________
An alternate white cover version of Fire Breathing Christians is available:
_____________________________________________________
There is also an alternate black cover version of Fire Breathing Christians:
Finally, here are a few good intro/reminder links for those of you who are new to Fire Breathing Christian and curious about exactly what’s goin’ on ’round here:
What are you, some kind of [insert label here] or something?!
What’s with that shark-fishie graphic thing?
Intro to Fire: The Power and Purpose of the Common Believer
When the Bible gets hairy. (Or: Is it right for men to have long hair?)
And especially this one: Never forget that apart from God’s grace you and I are complete morons.
political "realm"