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I have often aligned myself with the ideology of conservatives, and I am a big fan of Beck, Rush and Levin, but recently I have been quite shaken up over my beliefs.  I have been doing much debate as to what I truly believe as a result of reading a stellar book The Reason for God by Tim Keller, and a discussion with my historically liberal (now much more conservative) friend, Mark.  The problem is sin and injustice.  How do conservatives deal with it?  Of course some Christians understand the issue, but a majority of conservatives are often quite heartless when dealing with issues of poverty and injustice.   They embrace free market economies and republican democracies and state that in such a system, the impoverished and oppressed are most benefited, but that is a very laissez faire, altruistic view. Liberals are no better–but no worse.  The view of liberals is to solve pain through solving everyone’s problems for them. Can’t go to college because lack of funds? Can’t afford healthcare? Can’t read? Here is a free pass. Don’t strive. Don’t work. Don’t reach your potential. The motivation is not Christian service, or the glory of God’s kingdom.  Often the motivation is power, fear, guilt, greed.  Appealing to these base instincts is wrong in any moral framework.  In a conservative system, the solution to solve social ills is easy, incentivize.  Why do you think that you get a tax deduction for getting married, having children, your house, charitable donations?  Because the government believes that these are good things for a society to run on.In a liberal system, the solution to solve social ills is to let the government handle it.Both systems are broken–one runs on greed, and the other on power.  As Christians, we are called to the cause, to feed the hungry, clothe the naked.  What am I doing to do this?   I know that God IS sovereign.  Am I confusing God’s will for my political views?   Pray for me to have the heart for God’s people in need.  

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