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Thursday 30 October 2008

One way to look at voting is that it is damage control – not so much voting for something as it is voting against something worse. We must do everything we can to reduce the destruction done by the principalities and powers, and voting may be one way to do that. Being an agent of God’s Kingdom, transformation means calling out the best that the state can do, and not expecting it to be our Savior. More important than endorsing candidates is urging them to endorse the political manifesto of our Commander-in-Chief and to embrace the values of the peculiar, upside-down kingdom that blesses the poor, not just the middle class. Our central allegiance is to God’s Kingdom, and we invite everything else in the world to align itself with the norms of that upside-down kingdom. That is what we endorse, and we stand behind everything and everyone that moves us closer to that - the coming of God’s Kingdom “on earth as it is in heaven.” And we get in the way of everything that contradicts and works against God’s Kingdom - interrupting injustice with grace. Shane Claiborne

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