isaacsumner on Nostr: I'm just saying that voting for statists is one strategy that people like to take to ...
I'm just saying that voting for statists is one strategy that people like to take to feel like they're doing good to their neighbor. It's not obeying Christ's command. It's hoping that a politician will obey Christ's command because their positions are spun to sound a little more caring. (If castrating confused children can be spun to sound caring, anything can be.) When in reality, the politician could care less about humans dying in war or in abortions or from lack of affordable energy.
There are other strategies for using your vote to love your neighbor. For instance, knowing that the greatest purveyors of mass death in history are governments, you can try not to give the government more authority. That's power they won't be able to use against your neighbor to their harm.
Either way you vote, you can go and obey Christ's command directly to your neighbor.
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