What If I Told You About Faith in Politics?

By Vinnie MacIsaac

Counting down to inauguration 2017 I started what turned out to be a rather interesting social media experiment.

If you’re like me you see Christians taking all kinds of political positions on social media and if you are at all like me at times you wonder how does a person of faith get to that position?   Secondly, if you have been on social media for five years or five minutes you likely have faced the scorn of a random outrage from a reasonable question or contrary position on a political issue of even among the most trusted social media “friends.”

My Experiment: I posted for 10 days leading up to inauguration a series of Tweets that I assumed every Christian should (or at least could) agree with.  Of course I was limited by my own perspective and thus I was wrong, there was a lot of push back (mostly on Facebook some twitter). Over time my followers who did not push back but enjoyed them starteed calling them “truth bombs” and I picked up the hashtag #truthbomb. Enjoy:

 

What if I told you not everything is the Media’s fault? #personalresponsibility #media #seektruth

— Vince MacIsaac (@VinceMacIsaac) January 11, 2017

What if I told you that God is more concerned about your virtue then he is your political affiliation? #USA #churchandstate #truthbomb

— Vince MacIsaac (@VinceMacIsaac) January 12, 2017

What If told you Jesus was not a Republican or a Democratic or an Amercian or even a western? #USA #churchandstate #truthbomb

— Vince MacIsaac (@VinceMacIsaac) January 13, 2017

What if I told you the Church Jesus founded openly flaunted redistribution of wealth as a key church value? Acts 2:45-47 #truthbomb

— Vince MacIsaac (@VinceMacIsaac) January 14, 2017

What if I told you, your political opposite is not the devil but you might be based on how you treat and talk to and about them? #Truthbomb

— Vince MacIsaac (@VinceMacIsaac) January 15, 2017

What if I told you Jesus and Martin Luther King both had a dream, and it was the same dream? John17:21 #martinlutherkingday #truthbomb #USA

— Vince MacIsaac (@VinceMacIsaac) January 16, 2017

What if I told you that breaking the 9th commandment also applies to how you treat politicians and elected officials? #truthbomb #usa #faith

— Vince MacIsaac (@VinceMacIsaac) January 17, 2017

What if I told you we should pray for and not curse those political leaders we dislike and fear the most? (Matt5:44) #truthbomb #USA

— Vince MacIsaac (@VinceMacIsaac) January 18, 2017

What if I told you that Jesus was not against paying his taxes even to oppressive political systems? Luke 20:25 Matthew 17:24-27 #truthbomb

— Vince MacIsaac (@VinceMacIsaac) January 19, 2017

What if I told you that being pro-life logically includes being anti- death penalty, and extreme caution in invoking war. #truthbomb #USA

— Vince MacIsaac (@VinceMacIsaac) January 19, 2017

What if I told you God permits all leaders. Some do His will knowingly and others not. Both good and bad God will use. #truthbomb #USA

— Vince MacIsaac (@VinceMacIsaac) January 20, 2017

My Conclusion: People of faith surprised me. People who I thought would push certain ways by in large did not. And disagreements were not at partisan as you would have thought. Maybe we are not that divided after all? Yet, at times I wondered if people really practiced their convictions but that was not really my business to explore. Maybe the best outcome of this experiment was that on several tweets it really got people who disagree to talk.  If you want to comment on any of these you missed do so on Twitter on in my comments section on this blog. I’d love to hear from you or even debate you some.

Post Script:

Well 45th, batter up! Go with God because only God can bring the Unity you speak of. God Bless America. God is our Hope! @realDonaldTrump

— Vince MacIsaac (@VinceMacIsaac) January 20, 2017

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