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Virtue Over Victory in Politics
When in conflict we should demonstrate that our public witness is more important than winning a political battle. This means that if our side has to do something unloving or corrupt to win, then it’s better for us to lose in that situation.
We once heard a Christian political activist and donor express despair to a friend about the fact that his candidate lost in a presidential election. He told his friend that the lesson he learned from the loss was that “next time, we just can’t tell the people what we actually want to do.”
This is completely wrong. It’s better to lose than to sacrifice our virtue for the sake of what is politically expedient, to defend leaders’ harmful policies, or to condone immorality. It is better to lose that temporal battle. If our actions don’t glorify God and serve as the salt and the light of the world, then they are good for nothing.
The knock on many Christians in politics is that we use our religion as a cover to impose our prejudices and serve ourselves. Some of this criticism is unfair and malicious, but it has been true in too many instances.
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