Dr. Frank Turek recently told American Family Radio it is important for Christians to stay active in and informed about what their country is doing.
"If you don't think politics are important, you don't think the gospel is important," he stated. "Politics affects your ability to preach and live the gospel."
Considering the fact that His primary nemeses were the Pharisees, the religious and political leaders of Israel, Turek said Jesus provides the top example of a Christian influencing politics.
"He was scolding the politicians of his day for basically majoring in the minors," the apologist said, referencing Matthew 23:23. "By the way, that's what we're doing here in America today; the current administration is telling us what light bulbs we can and can't use, but they won't say, 'Don't murder your children.' In fact, they're encouraging us to murder and mutilate our children."
He also mentioned that Paul used political situations of the time to advance the gospel, like "when he asked for Roman guards, when he asked to see Caesar, to appeal to Caesar."
"We have to do the same thing," Turek submitted.
Nearly the entire Old Testament, he added, includes examples of political involvement.
"Just about every one of the prophets is railing against a king or a nation for what they're doing politically; they're falling away from the truth," Turek said. "[The prophets] all involved to a certain extent politically."
Instead, with an estimated one in three Christians voting inconsistently, many are doing just what the Left wants.
Christian nationalism
MSNBC's booth is sitting in line with the other broadcast networks overlooking the Republican National Convention floor in Milwaukee this week, but when it comes to disdain for Donald Trump and his followers, its hosts continue to set the bar high.
On the opening night of the convention, Joy Reid told the panel and several dozen viewers that she will vote for a corpse in November if she must, as the only thing that matters to her is keeping the bad orange man and his torch-bearing, racist pew-sitters out of the White House.
"Keeping that insane ideology of white Christian nationalism and white supremacy and white male Christian dominance out of power," she says, is her life's mission.
Reid and her like-minded fearmongers have never really defined what a Christian nationalist is or what they believe, but Dr. Alex McFarland says it is an epithet that can be used to scare the friend and demean the foe, like racist or fascist.
He asserts, however, that Trump supporters do not fit that caricature.
"We want the Constitution followed," says McFarland. "We want the Constitution preserved, the rule of law upheld."
He also points out that it is a misnomer to say that only white people are voting for Donald Trump.
"Huge numbers of ethnic minorities are getting behind Trump because they care about the economy, they care about the rule of law, [and] they care about families being able to keep what they earn," the apologist observes.
As for Christian nationalism, theologians agree that America's core values and freedoms only thrive if built on a Judeo-Christian foundation.
