Voter Registration Effort Seeks to Bring Biblical Change to America

United in Purpose wants to bring biblical change to America via five million newly registered evangelical voters. They want to do this through their efforts called Champion the Vote and One Nation Under God house parties. Watch the plan:

Five million new Christian voters can sway any election, so the thinking goes, because apparently all Christians vote alike.
The collection of groups and efforts are looking for candidates who will vote according to the Bible. Rick Perry (invited but not confirmed) and Newt Gingrich are on the agenda for the One Nation Under God house parties. I’ll bet that will be a rocking party.
Under the umbrella of United in Purpose is the focus of the video above, Champion the Vote. Reportedly, Rick Perry’s prayer meeting (the supposedly non-political The Response) mailing list has been used to solicit people for the Champion the Vote effort. This is unsurprising since this effort advocates churches become ACORN-like voter registration machines. Clearly, our salvation comes from the ballot box and not the Lord.
Champion the Vote has specified a worldview that they would like to see in power. You can read it here. Some excerpts:

A Biblical worldview begins with God in Genesis, chapter one and verse one. A Biblical worldview is viewing the world, the beginning of the world, people in the world, the problems in the world, governments in the world, issues in the world, solutions for the problems in the world, and the future of the world – through God’s Word.

A Biblical worldview requires that you know what the Word of God teaches!

Everyone has a worldview whether they realize it or not. Your response to news about an abortion clinic is based upon your worldview. Your response to school shootings is based upon your worldview. Your response to evolution is based upon your worldview. Your response to issues of life and death is based upon your worldview. Everyone has developed a “system of beliefs” and core values that they operate from. The goal is to be sure that this “system of beliefs” is based totally on the Word of God!

A Biblical worldview cannot be based upon any human system of beliefs and values.

The best way to define a worldview is “simply how you see the world”. If you were to put on a pair of glasses that had “blue lenses” everything you see would be “blue”. If you were to put on a pair of glasses that had “green lenses” everything you see would be “green”. The same is true for a worldview.

There are basically two worldviews: Biblical and atheistic.

You really get a sense of the reductionism with these statements. One is either an evangelical Christian or an atheist. Champion the Vote promotes this “biblical worldview” as a part of the statement of purpose:

Champion the Vote is an initiative of United in Purpose (UiP), a non-partisan, non-profit organization whose mission is to actively advance the traditional values of America’s founding fathers.
UiP provides resources and infrastructure for like-minded Christian organizations and ministries to educate and mobilize their constituencies for the common cause of bringing the Biblical worldview to the forefront of American life and politics.

CTV wants you to join if you want your vote to go for candidates with a biblical worldview.

If you’re passionate about America and about God’s Word, if you long to see our nation return to the timeless truth of a Biblical worldview, if you’re willing to be on the frontlines and speak out to mobilize others to act – if you have as little as one hour a week to volunteer — become a Champion!

Of course, the nation never had such a worldview as a foundation. The danger in this group is that they seek to impose a return to something that never was. They seek to make the church into a political machine.
I have no objection to people of like-mind seeking to recruit other people. This is how it works. However, I do have a problem with the blurring of divisions between the cross and the flag, using the church for unintended reasons.

18 thoughts on “Voter Registration Effort Seeks to Bring Biblical Change to America”

  1. So-called ‘bible-believing christianity’ does indeed appear very narrow in its scope. I’m not sure that the “Judeo-Christian Tradition” is that narrow – witness the huge array of standpoints within both Christianity and Judaism.
    A proper appraisal of the “Judeo-Christian Tradition” must lead to us to value above all human life and human dignity, and to work for the common good, accepting the ‘given’ that the human family is a diverse one (after all, it seems that Jesus does not judge people on the [arbitrary] grounds of their ethnicity or religion, but rather on their qualities as a human person and their behaviour … see inter alia Matthew 25). It is perhaps no accident that those parts of world that have been most subject to this ‘tradition’ are those which have stumbled the furthest towards some sort of functioning democracy and ‘rule of law’. What I find deeply distressing is that there are so-called ‘christians’ who want to undo this progress, even to an extent that the Bible (yes – the Bible!) makes perfectly clear is prechristian (e.g. bringing back Mosaic capital offences), and therefore sub-christian or even anti-christian.

  2. I continue to fear for the health of America as fundlementalist Christians try to take over our political process in an on going attempt to make this government a Theocracy and do away with Democracy. Please register and vote, especially if you are a person who fears a few trying to control your life in what they feel is in the name of God. The reality they fail to see, is Jesus never advocated his followers to be political. That was one of the problems between him and the Sadducees.

  3. I’ll take reality over fantasy any day.
    What’s with the 66 star, then 60 star American flags?
    Lastly, only 60 million Christians in the country? I guess they aren’t counting Catholics, Mormons, and a few other groups.

  4. Personally, I think this group is a bigger danger to any politician that aligns with them than with to the US. the whole “we have to take back america for christ” routine may play well with the conservative base, but it is doing to scare off the moderates and independent voters.

  5. God deliver us all from these religious fanatics parading as good Christians when they are in reality venomous snakes no better than Islamist fanatics who would force their warped beliefs on America.

  6. The whole schtich about what the Founding Fathers believed is so appalling when you actual review our history from the late colonial to post-Constitution era. I am in a very stimulating discussion with a friend who has political savvy about the affects of the Scottish Enlightenment and the principle of “Natural Religion” in the shaping of our national documents. As many of us do know, these men had a sense of the Divine but not in the narrow rubrics of a “Judeo-Christian Tradition”.

  7. You say, “The danger in this group is that they seek to impose a return to something that never was. They seek to make the church into a political machine.”
    Really? Where did you get that information? That is simply too big of a leap from the quotes you provide. Sounds like evangelphobia to me. Relax. This is what makes America Amercia.

    1. Christian – Click this link for a sampling of where I got my information. Also, see this link. I am very relaxed, hope you are too. I have no problem as I said with voter registration, but I do have a problem with using churches to create a political machine. I can imagine churches torn apart over this. If pastors start endorsing candidates or assuming their members are all religious right voters, then people who see things differently are going to feel alienated in their own churches. It is not the ministry of the church to get candidates elected to office.

  8. Which Biblical worldview? The Old or New Testament?
    My favorite line in political letters to the editor is, “Christians believe…” Christians can’t even agree on how to recite The Lord’s Prayer, but somehow Christians ALL have the same opinion on taxes, healthcare, foreign policy, etc. LOL

  9. Which Biblical worldview? The Old or New Testament?
    My favorite line in political letters to the editor is, “Christians believe…” Christians can’t even agree on how to recite The Lord’s Prayer, but somehow Christians ALL have the same opinion on taxes, healthcare, foreign policy, etc. LOL

  10. I continue to fear for the health of America as fundlementalist Christians try to take over our political process in an on going attempt to make this government a Theocracy and do away with Democracy. Please register and vote, especially if you are a person who fears a few trying to control your life in what they feel is in the name of God. The reality they fail to see, is Jesus never advocated his followers to be political. That was one of the problems between him and the Sadducees.

  11. God deliver us all from these religious fanatics parading as good Christians when they are in reality venomous snakes no better than Islamist fanatics who would force their warped beliefs on America.

  12. You say, “The danger in this group is that they seek to impose a return to something that never was. They seek to make the church into a political machine.”
    Really? Where did you get that information? That is simply too big of a leap from the quotes you provide. Sounds like evangelphobia to me. Relax. This is what makes America Amercia.

    1. Christian – Click this link for a sampling of where I got my information. Also, see this link. I am very relaxed, hope you are too. I have no problem as I said with voter registration, but I do have a problem with using churches to create a political machine. I can imagine churches torn apart over this. If pastors start endorsing candidates or assuming their members are all religious right voters, then people who see things differently are going to feel alienated in their own churches. It is not the ministry of the church to get candidates elected to office.

  13. I’ll take reality over fantasy any day.
    What’s with the 66 star, then 60 star American flags?
    Lastly, only 60 million Christians in the country? I guess they aren’t counting Catholics, Mormons, and a few other groups.

  14. So-called ‘bible-believing christianity’ does indeed appear very narrow in its scope. I’m not sure that the “Judeo-Christian Tradition” is that narrow – witness the huge array of standpoints within both Christianity and Judaism.
    A proper appraisal of the “Judeo-Christian Tradition” must lead to us to value above all human life and human dignity, and to work for the common good, accepting the ‘given’ that the human family is a diverse one (after all, it seems that Jesus does not judge people on the [arbitrary] grounds of their ethnicity or religion, but rather on their qualities as a human person and their behaviour … see inter alia Matthew 25). It is perhaps no accident that those parts of world that have been most subject to this ‘tradition’ are those which have stumbled the furthest towards some sort of functioning democracy and ‘rule of law’. What I find deeply distressing is that there are so-called ‘christians’ who want to undo this progress, even to an extent that the Bible (yes – the Bible!) makes perfectly clear is prechristian (e.g. bringing back Mosaic capital offences), and therefore sub-christian or even anti-christian.

  15. The whole schtich about what the Founding Fathers believed is so appalling when you actual review our history from the late colonial to post-Constitution era. I am in a very stimulating discussion with a friend who has political savvy about the affects of the Scottish Enlightenment and the principle of “Natural Religion” in the shaping of our national documents. As many of us do know, these men had a sense of the Divine but not in the narrow rubrics of a “Judeo-Christian Tradition”.

  16. Personally, I think this group is a bigger danger to any politician that aligns with them than with to the US. the whole “we have to take back america for christ” routine may play well with the conservative base, but it is doing to scare off the moderates and independent voters.

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