10 Toxic Traditions That Are Killing the Church

Reducing the transcendence of Christianity down to a reliable voting bloc for one political party.

I’ve wrote on this one before as well. Why is it that to be a good Christian you have to belong to a certain political party? I’m not trying to argue the merits of the Republicans vs the Democrats, I’m just asking why has American Christianity, which is supposed to transcend politics, been reduced to a reliable voting bloc for one political party? Whenever I ask this I’ll always get someone to come back at me, “What are you saying? How can anyone support this party and what they stand for?” That’s not the conversation I’m trying to have. What I’m trying to ask is why do you have to be a Republican to be a good Christian today? Whether or not the Republican party lines up more with evangelical Christianity is besides the point. What we’ve done is immediately alienate the half of America that doesn’t identify as a Republican. If we identify ourselves so closely with one party that people assume you have to be a Republican to be a Christian, we’ve just lost influence with 150 million Americans.