Should Christians Refuse Support to Mitt Romney?

Current questions of a perennial nature.

Earlier, I posted an excellent piece by Dan Phillips on whether Christians should vote for Mitt Romney (duh!), or rather sit this one out (i.e., support Obama) or vote third party (again, i.e., support Obama).

It was originally sent to me as an email, and in that email, comments were requested. Here are mine, and they range beyond the question itself to whether we are (a) required to vote for Christians only, (b) required to serve Christian governments only, or (c) perhaps are just really, really blessed to have a Christian-led government when we do from time to time, and ought to be a lot more grateful and a lot less entitled. -- RDM

My comments:

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by Rod D. Martin
October 4, 2012

What do I think of Phillips' piece?  Couldn't agree more, in pretty much every particular.  I was especially pleased to see he didn't go down the dead-end of demanding Christian governance as a Biblical command.  Of course I'm for Christian governance, and of course I'm striving for it every day of my …