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This is a good video regarding the duplicity of the religious right and their contorted efforts to defend the indefensible policy, actions, and personalities that are often opposed to their stated core values and beliefs. This is the problem of 'plantation politics' in which a party has a strangle hold on certain groups due to one or two important issues. For the religious right it is abortion and the supreme court issues. Yet being prolife evangelicals make strange bedfellows with war mongers or other ethically unsavory candidates. The religious left often have the same issues but that is for another day. I think that one problem wt the old 'Moral Majority" was that it lost sight that God's kingdom was something different than the political kingdoms of this world. Yes, work for peaceful and lawful govt that respected the rights of all including all religions but Christians are called to be Christians even in the worse of places under communism or under radical dominated middle east countries. So for me, even if Hillary is elected, and you all know my thoughts about her, I can live with it and I'll pray for her. The same wt Trump and you know what I think of him. My hope isn't in them. My kingdom alliance is to a different kingdom that transcends the politics of this temporary life. Russell Moore has some good things to say about the younger generation in regards to these issues. Russell Moore is the 8th president of Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the moral and public policy agency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Russell has been writing some amazing pieces during this election cycle and he gave the lecture below earlier this week. It is entitled "Can the Religious Right Be Saved?". It is very thought provoking prophetic speech and does not hold any punches - great biblical perspective hashed out in our current context. Lecture starts around the 15:30 time mark of the video. The actual message by more is about a hour long. http://www.russellmoore.com/2016/10/25/can-religious-right-saved/