Election Eve Post #3 - Mike Metzger on the Real Winner of the Election

I'm about to crack down on myself for using up valuable blog space blogging on something as trivial as elections and the like, but before I come back and shut myself down, here's another election eve thought for your consideration.   Here's Mike Metzger on how to tell who the real winner of the election is:

Be sure to vote this Tuesday. But wait until Sunday morning at church to catch the election results. Whichever candidate wins, look for the look on your friends’ faces. In too many cases, it will tell you the New Deal beat the New Covenant.

Speaking of the fragile fabric of morality and markets that our nation was founded upon, Metzger says:

The threads were further ripped in the Roaring Twenties. A lot of things soared, including the stock market, drug abuse, divorce rates, and crime syndicates in major cities (did you think I was describing 2008 or the 1920s?). When the market crashed in 1929, the problem was how to create or reinforce social consensus where little or none could be generated by institutions that formerly performed this role – i.e., the church. Nature abhors a vacuum, so the New Deal rushed into the space vacated by the New Covenant. This is why the New Deal is considered the most important development of the last century in American political culture. It wasn’t so much FDR and the Democrats – the New Deal made politics the end-all of nearly everything – for every party.

The New Deal shifted the solutions to problems over to politics. It said if we could get the right politicians in office and the right laws passed, all would be well. This was a new fabric of politicization where business interests, higher education, philanthropy, art, science, and minorities all sought legitimacy through the rights conferred by the state.

He goes on:

It’s sad to say, but Christians on the Right and Left have been sucked into the New Deal vortex. They’re seeking to legitimatize Christianity in the public square through political action. . . Politicized parishioners measure success by the number of politicians visiting their church or pastors offering prayers to open congressional sessions. The hope these Christians place in politics is quite astonishing.

And here's how you can tell who won the election:

Depending on which church you attend, you’ll see one of three faces – conquest, contempt, or confidence. In one church, they’ll crow about their conquest because their candidate won. In another church, they’ll grimace, grind their teeth, and begin plotting revenge because their candidate lost. But in both churches, the bigger winner is the New Deal because these are the faces of politicized people.

If you see confident expressions, regardless of which candidate wins, you’re looking at a New Covenant Christian.

Read the whole thing.

P. S. This is a little off topic but here's a post on how the new deal actually lengthened the depression by about 7 years. 

Comments

[Brian]

"In one church, they’ll crow about their conquest because their candidate won. In another church, they’ll grimace, grind their teeth, and begin plotting revenge because their candidate lost"

I think it goes a little further in that they think God's candidate won or lost. For the loser's side, especially if it's McCain, I don't doubt there will be moanings of how satan won the day. Of course we should know that God cannot lose no matter what. But somehow we forget that.

[Headless Unicorn Guy]

Because Politics has become Religion, just like in the old USSR.

Ever wonder why so many Soviet-era Russians were alcoholics?