Eric Metaxas is a highly intelligent man and a great writer (Amazing Grace, Bonhoeffer), but there is no reason for any other Christian to do what he says other Christians should do.
One of the tragedies within the tragedy of this presidential campaign is how many good, intelligent, talented
men and women, some of the most respected minds in the country's intellectual life, including some of the
most respected theological thinkers and writers, have gone completely into the tank for either Donaldus
Minimus or Hilarious Rodent Clinton.
They are two of the most singularly grotesque vulgarians ever to have been taken seriously as prospective
presidential material, neither of whose prospective policies will bring anything but grief to what remains of
this republic, neither of whose (I use the word
very loosely) thinking indicates anything but ignorance
of constitutional law, neither of whose temperaments inspires, neither of whom incline in their (using loosely
again) thought toward upholding and defending freedom, individual rights and responsibilities, and a properly
construed
government (whose sole legitimate business---other than protecting us from enemies actual
or
provably iminent from abroad---is to
stay the hell out of your business, my business, any citizen's
business,
until or unless one citizen would obstruct or abrogate a fellow citizen's equivalent rights), as
opposed to the long-entrenched and improperly consecrated State (whose business is butting into everyone's
business whether it is competent or constitutionally sactioned to do so).
Whichever one is elected, alas, they may yet deliver what was once thought impossible: either one of them
stands an excellent chance, poor us, of making His Excellency Al-Hashish Field Marshmallow Dr. Barack Obama
Dada, COD, RIP, LSMFT, Would-Have-Been Life President of the Republic Formerly Known as the United States,
into an object of nostalgia.
