Why does the Christian Right Oppose Ron Paul?

I personally withdrew from politics several years ago. I had several reasons including - it was a pointless exercise, it concerns man's Kingdom and not God's, and how can a Christian even think of participating in a realm so corrupt that it perverts everything that it touches.

The last point is one I could never see changing. After all, politics is the very art of compromise and corruption. I never thought I would ever see that idea not holding up. I never thought I would ever see an honest politician. I am still flabbergasted to find such a man, and even more so to find he has held federal office for many years. Of course, this man is Ron Paul, and he has demonstrated for us all what many of us have thought to be impossible - to hold a high elected office and not be corrupted nor ever compromise with its ways. Even more amazing are the thousands of supporters of such a man. That many Americans have come to reject worship of the state is a most encouraging sign.

What is not encouraging is that the majority that name the name of Christ still hold to their worship of the state instead of Christ. They sold their souls decades ago to the devil in order to gain control of one of his earthly kingdoms. In so doing, they rejected God's kingdom.

Recently, I have been puzzling over why seemingly decent Christians, even homeschoolers prefer the likes of the "Huckster", aka as Huckabee to an honest and decent man like Ron Paul. My dear wife, Susan, offered this morning a most sound answer - they love power. Ron Paul doesn't doesn't offer power. He offers freedom. If Americans are free, then no one will have power over them. While her answer is of course sound, just for curiosity sake, I would love to ask members of the Christian right some questions, and hear from them their answers.

Here are my questions:

1) Why do homeschoolers prefer Huckabee over Paul considering that Huckabee is a big supporter of federal funding and involvement in local education? According to the HSLDA, it is because the Huckster is better on "Islamofascism" - LewRockwell.com. Since when is foreign policy a concern for homeschooling? If somehow we keep a few terrorists in some dungeons around the world and homeschooling is regulated to the point of impracticality, how does that serve homeschool interests?

2) Since I have heard this justification ("Islamofascism") come up a number of times, including from the Huckster himself, for supporting Huckabee, I would like to ask a few questions about it also:

1. Why is the supposed threat of terrorism (of which there has been none in about 7 years), so much worse than the real threat of a totalitarian police state (of which currently kills far many than all of the terrorist attacks, right here in the USA)? How many people need to be tortured and/or killed by police tasers before the Christian right considers it a threat?
2. Why is Islamofascism a threat, when Christofascism is not? Since fascism is normally considered a heavily regulated socialist state, does not America fit the definition a lot better than a bunch of Arab tribes who like to fight each other?
3. My last question on Islamofascism/terrorism is the one I would like answered the most above all my questions. When did Christians begin to love their own lives more than anything else on earth? Their support for just about anybody over Ron Paul, citing mainly the threat of terrorism, shows this fact clearly. I have more to say on this subject later.

3) We have had unrestrained abortion on demand for over 30 years now. Politicians have come and gone, all proclaiming to be pro-life and wanting to overturn Roe v. Wade. Their promises have rung hollow. We now have a candidate to who does what he says, and honestly tells us that with a simple majority vote in congress this terrible ruling could be thrown out, without even violating the constitution. Yet, neither democrats, republicans, and even pro-life groups have been willing to support such a bill whenever he brought it up in congress. This man is Ron Paul and is now running for president. If elected, we would have the best chance in decades of getting rid of the Roe v Wade ruling. Why is the Christian right and all pro-life groups not lining up behind this man's campaign? I think I have my answer - Islamofascism. We rather kill a million or so American babies each year, than risk our own precious skin in a the remote possibility of a terrorist attack. Or perhaps it isn't our life we fear so much as some more petty risk like loss of convenience, money or entertainment?

My point in this post is not so much to be politically stumping for Ron Paul, as to point out not only the hypocrisy of the Christian right, but to try and shame its members to repentance. To that end, I would like to come back to the threat of terrorism again.

Because of the perceived threat of terrorism, Americans, including members of the Christian-right (who say they believe the bible) are willing to do the following:

1. Wage unprovoked war on another country.
   
2. Support a war, that includes such atrocities as bombing innocent civilians, running over women and children who get in the way of a convoy, and torturing innocent people.
3. Support incarceration without trial, for even Americans.
4. Support torture.

Let us contrast these actions with some of the teachings of Christ.

1. Love your neighbor as yourself.
2. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it
3. If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Christian, how can you support torture, war, murder of women and children, except that you love you own life more than others? How can you do that and still call yourself a Christian?

Please pass this message onto friends and relatives. See if you can solicit any answers for me. You can write me at ministry@micah68.org

May we all love not our own lives, even to the death - Rev. 12:11