C. S. Lewis, Christian Politics Today

C. S. LEWIS CHRISTIAN POLITICS TODAY

Excerpts lifted from C. S. Lewis' essay written in 1941 expresses my own concerns about the present Evengelical Christian attachment to the Republican Party.  Lewis forecasted the resulting entanglement with such accuracy, I simply offer his remarks.

 The Guardian, Anglican newspaper
published his essay under the title,
 Meditation of the 3rd Commandment

...the temptation of claiming for our favourite opinions that kind and degree of certainty and authority which really belongs only to our Faith.

The danger of mistaking our merely natural, though perhaps legitimate, enthusiasm for holy zeal, is always great ... The demon inherent in every party is at all times ready enough to disguise himself as the Holy Ghost (God's Spirit) ; the formation of a Christian Party means handing over to him the most efficient make-up we can find.  And when once the disguise has succeeded, his commands will presently be taken to abrogate all moral laws and to justify whatever the unbelieving allies of the "Christian" Party wish to do.

By the mere act of calling itself the Christian Party (or the party of Evangelical Christians)
It implicitly accuses all Christians who do not join it of apostasy and betrayal.

The principal which divides it from its brothers and it to its political allies will (is) not theological.  ...it will have no more power...to control the behaviour of its unbelieving allies.

In the near future, God willing, I will examine other areas concerning the effects of our ongoing Christian/Political alliances.