In 2012 Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, and Herman Cain claimed that God had chosen them to run for the office of president.
That would imply that God had intended for at least one of them to win.
None did.
They weren’t the only Republicans who have claimed God chose them to assume the office they eventually ran for, and then lost.
There have plenty of those, and will be again.
To them add those who claimed God wanted them to become law makers because He intended to work through them, and were then shocked when their agenda did not just happen, and may never have.
I taught down the hall from a woman who apparently had no mind of her own, as she claimed whatever she did was what God had told her to do.
While she wanted to be a virgin missionary, God not only told her to get married, but He introduced her to her husband, told them to have sex and when, controlled how many children she had, told her to remain home and raise them, and, when the kids were of a proper age, told her to get into teaching to bring Jesus back into the classroom.
There was an evangelical aspect to her Civics classes as she often brought the “Christian Nation” theory into her lessons and gave higher grades to the students who supported that, and lower grades to those who didn’t. Most students figured this out and gave her what she wanted whether or not they actually bought into it.
They played her game for the sake of their GPAs.
After a time God once again spoke unto her and told her to run for the state legislature so she could bring good Christian principles to state government.
Her assumption was that with the Lord behind her, she would just go in, and whatever she promoted would be supported without question or opposition as it was the will of God.
This did not happen to the degree she thought it would as many things she pushed, like her anti-Gay and anti-Muslim stuff, failed to get support from most, other than those legislators and citizens who were of like mind.
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Opposition was also a satanic agenda, and she vilified her opponents in the worst ways by pandering to prejudice and fear.
She became a miniature version of Sarah Palin in the evangelical world.
She promoted fear of the “others” and the unknown, chose to use groups she did not like as the embodiment of all that was evil, and leaned heavily on pseudo-patriotism to recruit supporters.
I’m not sure if God told her to become such a poster child for her cause, or if this was the one time she decided to do something on her own.
Because of term limits, she had to leave the legislature, but her equally divinely guided preacher husband, having been told by God to run for the state senate and continue His somewhat sketchily successful agenda, threw his hat in the ring.
Why not? It was, after all, what God wanted.
He pushed the chosen-by-God theme during his campaign, and promised to bring his version of “Christian” values to the public square. Opposition, of course, came from those allied with Satan.
When the votes were counted this past Tuesday, he lost to his opponent in the primary run-off by a two to one margin.
Another choice of God lost.
Perhaps one of two things can result from this.
Either people will begin to see that these politicians, who claim they are chosen by God, are pandering to the people with strong religious beliefs, or implying that not to vote for them is to turn their backs on God Himself, somewhat of a blasphemous approach, or, those who God chooses to run for office will see His lousy track record and turn down the endorsement.
Perhaps in the future, when politicians claim they have been divinely appointed by God to run, voters will see this for what it is and demand the politicians explain their plans in detail and not count on automatic support because they appeal to religion, and a very narrow and negative interpretation of it at that.
Maybe there will be a third result, that being that people will see that God does not really get involved in politics, and we should base laws on the Constitution and not the Bible.