Should Christians Support Gerrymanding

[Johny Joe Hold]

This is normally a deep topic relegated to we professional politicians, but God had instructions for all Christians. As background we start with Deuteronomy 1:13. There God tells us Choose your tribe wisely. God here instructs us to elect Republicans. To follow His instructions, we need majorities. In the U.S. system that means majorities in districts that select legislators in states and across the U.S. in House districts.

With Republicans in most states and in the House they have been able to draw lines in ways that elect more Republicans. It goes under the name redistricting or Gerrymandering. Now that Demoncrats are gaining majorities in some places they are drawing new lines. The link author, a fine Republican, points out how unfair this is.

Demoncrats must be stopped from Gerrymandering because it violated God's Law in Deuteronomy 1:13. The link below points out the unfair way Demoncrats are packing votes from cities into districts and taking majorities away from Christian rural areas. We need to use God's Name and stop this.

https://spectator.org/gerrymandering...of-big-cities/

[handmaiden]

Obviously, something done in God's Name that will add to His Glory is the correct and Christian thing to do. So, yes, Christians should support gerrymandering if it benefits the Republican party.

To use Biblical events as a baseline, sacrificing human beings to Baal is bad, but when Abraham came within a knife's edge of sacrificing his son, Issac, it was good because it showed complete and total obedience to The Lord.

I really don't think that it gets any simpler.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Obviously, something done in God's Name that will add to His Glory is the correct and Christian thing to do. So, yes, Christians should support gerrymandering if it benefits the Republican party.
To use Biblical events as a baseline, sacrificing human beings to Baal is bad, but when Abraham came within a knife's edge of sacrificing his son, Issac, it was good because it showed complete and total obedience to The Lord.
I really don't think that it gets any simpler.

Thank you Sister Handmaiden--You are so right. The thing I've noticed about the Bible it is simple. Just go with what it says. When it says elect wise people, that's what we are to do. Sacrificing Issac would have been OK, Baal is bad.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Real Americans will do anything to save America even if it looks like hypocrisy to our enemies. That's the difference.

[MitzaLizalor]

start with Deuteronomy 1:13.

DEUTERONOMY 1:13
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

When visiting places "out of town" often I see persons regarded as wise, known among the tribe, appointed or elected as leaders, who are unbelievers. Usually they do believe in something, as evidenced by sundry grotesque statues they drape flowers over, and in New Testament times the cities were overwhelmingly heathen. They also had men supposedly wise, very well known (Augustus Caesar for instance) as rulers.

Today there are many such places, Zen courtyards, witchdoctor huts often on a grand scale, even mormonism! It depends where you go. Obviously I never enter such buildings even though superficially they seem to follow God's suggestion: considered wise among the tribe, well known and clearly ruling.

But are they really doing so? Should I even visit such places—Bali, Utah, Norway—at all? Any comments will assist me with an itinerary. Thank you.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Today there are many such places, Zen courtyards, witchdoctor huts often on a grand scale, even mormonism! It depends where you go. Obviously I never enter such buildings even though superficially they seem to follow God's suggestion: considered wise among the tribe, well known and clearly ruling.

But are they really doing so? Should I even visit such places—Bali, Utah, Norway—at all? Any comments will assist me with an itinerary. Thank you.

I'm glad you are trying to do the right thing, Sister Mitza. My thinking goes like this. Deuteronomy tells us to choose our tribe wisely. Anyone who attends Landover Baptist Church on Sunday does not see men with feathers like Indians or robes like Muslims. They see men in suits and ties with shoes that are shined. They see women wearing trim tailored clothes, not nuns' habits or weird Muslim hoods. In other words, choosing the people of Landover Baptist is choosing one's tribe wisely as God commands.

[MitzaLizalor]

Thank you for your encouragement. I've always noticed something wrong with suits and ties worn by Jehovah's Witnesses, so-called Latter Day Saints or dubious types selling property in The Azores.

It could be the smell, or some inflection of speech, I accept that. They probably don't even know they're doing it. But they are very very obvious, even before speaking words. And they've chosen a tribe. I will blow off the Utah skiing invitation. Norway and Indonesia actually have elections where the outcomes are very predictable. Stavanger will return a Viking football (whatever that is) aficionado and Denpasar a crazed loon for foreign currency. Knowledge of God highlights the perils of travel.

I Peter 2:9b 10 11a ………shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts………

in Him