Money Can't Buy You Love

After billions of dollars spent to insure that President Obama is kicked out of the White House, he is once again "Mr. President." In the months to come Republicans will try to figure out why they lost so badly--in an election that was theirs to lose. For me the answer is clear; "Money can't buy you love."

Speaking of love. Among the data that is begining to come out from this election, the one that caught my eye, is the number of evangelical votes Romney received.

Think about this, Seventy-eight percent of white evangelical Christians voted for Romney, compared to 74 percent that voted for Republican presidential nominee John McCain in 2008. Those voters were 26 percent of the electorate this year, as they were in 2008. Now, here is what blows me away, 81% of the people--in Exit Polls, said that they believed that "President Obama cared more about them" Wow!

So, evangelicals tied themselves to a candidate and a party that 81% of voters viewed as uncaring. Now, I know that evangelicals love and care for people! However, the perception is staggering for me. When you put this in the context of minorities, this perception has long-term ramifications. For, unlike the Republican Party--who now has to consider the changing demographics of our country, the Great Commission made that an individual mandate over two-thousand years ago.

Unlike going to church--for many people today, people's perception about who cares about them isn't something that is practice once a week. When we add to this the level of hate and disdain that the Republican Party has for president Obama, evangelicals will have a hard time changing people's perception.

Where do evangelicals start in changing this perception. The first place I would suggest they start is in turning off Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck. These entities have done more to promote this perception than anything evangelicals have done directly themselves. I say directly because indirectly these entities dependent on our viewing for advertising dollars. We make them rich, and at the end of the day, their objectives are not the church's...their's is poles and Our's is souls.



Anthony