My suspicion is that the answer to this question has to be "no". I don't think I even need delve into the Bible to get any appropriate verses either, it's that self-evident.
Yet there are many who would, it seems, ignore all the attempts at deception by political parties in order to maintain some belief that their party is the more Christian party.
At the last election, a number of people I spoke to would cite voting records of Labour and Conservative ministers, and would trot out the most recent story of some awful behaviour by a Labour minister as if that was evidence that the Conservatives must be more Christian, and hence we should vote for them.
Suffice to say, I said back at the time: Wait a year or two, and then we can compare. Then we can look at how the Conservative party behaves while in power. That'll help us judge whether it really is the more "Christian" party.
Certainly the imposter known as Archbishop Cranmer is still regularly trotting out examples of why the government, and Eric Pickles in particular, is so saint-like.
But do Christian ministers engage in disinformation campaigns that push "facts" that aren't facts? It would seem Eric Pickles does, and quite clearly Andrew Lansley is very good at it. This stance isn't even based on the duplicitous general election campaign run by the Conservatives which ran roughshod over any attempt at applying basic and sensible economics to the economic situation facing the economy. I haven't even mentioned the AV campaign...
The point isn't to paint out the Tories as any worse than Labour in this regard which is why I won't go on about the Tory election campaign or go on and on. My simple point is: Any party which sets itself up away from the centre will have to justify what it does, and almost always do so using lies and deception, as has been so brilliantly exemplified by the Conservatives recently. I know examples exist of where Labour has done that - I'm not defending them nor would I ever want to. The point is neither left nor right can claim to be "more Christian".
Correct. However, I don't vote for a "more christian" party anyway - I look at the individual I'm actually voting for and vote accordingly.
ReplyDeleteI was quite unimpressed during the last Euro election with the Christian People's Party broadcast as they effectively persuaded me NOT to vote for them. Was a little amused by it.