LINKS: A couple of thoughts on Christianity and politics. First, against the normally insightful Ross Douthat, writing here on the Intelligent Design movement, it seems to me generally wrong to think of Christians as people who... how to put this delicately... particularly care about whether or not holding some position 'damages' them in the long term, politically speaking. Even if you're of the evolutionist-and-Christian camp, presumably it's very clear to you why your Christianity has to come first, not your politics.
David Wayne speaks excellently to this:
"Ultimately the Christian worldview transcends the limited number of issues and platforms that political parties try to define us by and squeeze us into. Christians aren't to settle in on a limited number of "values" that will define us as a voting block but to embrace the whole truth of the whole Christian worldview, then let this truth guide us in all our decisions, including political ones."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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