Voting for Death

It’s a common enough fallacy, tu quoque. It means simply, “You too.” If we are talking about something I’ve done wrong and I point out that you have done the same such has zero bearing on the wrongness of what I’d done. It may take you down a peg or two, but that’s about it. As with so many informal fallacies, social media proves to be fertile soil for such hornswaggle. Every day some conservative points out something terrible the Biden administration is doing and then some liberal throws out some wrongdoing of former President Trump. Little is served by this, except perhaps revealing our priorities.

With mid-term elections less than a month away Christians are once again arguing about whether it is permissible to vote Democratic, and whether the GOP is God’s Only Party. My own view is not as radical as some. I believe a believer can vote for a democrat. That said, I also believe a believer can commit war crimes. Believers are able to perform all sorts of wicked deeds. We are, after all, sinners. But a believer should not vote for any member of a party that is publicly committed to ensuring babies can legally be murdered. To do so is an affront to the God whose image all babies bear.

Not long ago Christians advocating for democrats took this approach- because Roe v. Wade is enshrined law, and the President has little impact on it, we can set that issue aside when deciding for whom we will vote. Today, Roe v. Wade is not enshrined law. Today who we vote for will have a tremendous impact on the lives, or deaths, of millions. So all these misguided Christians are backpedaling, affirming that, of course this election you can’t vote for a democrat. Too many babies’ lives are at stake.

Except no one is backpedaling. Instead, they are doubling down, and resting their arguments on tu quoque. It’s fine to vote for the death party because supposedly the other party is the insurrection party. It’s fine to vote for the death party because supposedly the other party is the poor hating party. It’s fine to vote for the death party because the other party is mean. All of which reveals not merely a fallacy but a sick and twisted set of priorities. Christians vote for the death party because they are worldly fools in open insurrection against the Word of God, haters of the poorest of the poor, the unborn, and not merely mean but cruel and sadistic.

It is time for all of us to repent. Most of us have voted for candidates who promise to protect the “right” of some mothers to kill some babies. Not a one of us has done what we ought to protect the babies. Not a one of us have valued them as our heavenly Father values them. The universality of our guilt, however, doesn’t erase it. The point isn’t, “We’re all guilty, so it’s no big deal.” Rather the point is, “We’re all guilty, and that’s a big deal.” The solution, according to God’s Word, is repentance. He promises that if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Friends, do not argue with those who argue voting for the death party is morally acceptable. Simply call them to repent. Lest you become fools like them.