I know a couple of young politicos (and old for that matter) who could profit from these words from S.M. Hutchens on politics and Christianity:
“When young people ask me about politics, I tell them to study the Scriptures, work on becoming Christians, and see where that takes them. I can predict with some confidence this will make full cooperation with any party impossible, but this does not mean they will not be able to rank, and support, secular parties (and they are all secular) according to what might be called their degrees of perfection - some, perhaps, quite fully, others hardly at all. And one may reasonably expect his support to change over time as a party’s obedience to the laws of God waxes and wanes.
I do counsel young people to avoid liberalism, but also not to ally themselves carelessly with self-professed conservatives. It is not a mark of wisdom to abandon Karl Marx only to take up with Ayn Rand.”
(HT: Touchstone Magazine)
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