Good and Bad Kings

You can look at our Presidents as either a "good" or "bad" King.  You can do it based on Biblical principles.  What they actually do, not what they say.  There are numerous passages in the Bible that we can evaluate our modern day kings, but going to James can provide us with good insight onto what a good or bad king might do.  It is interesting to me because many conservative Christians hate President Obama with various "reasons", but sorry conservatives your main reason is he is African American.  If Ronald Reagan did what he did (and Reagan seems to be more liberal than Obama) you would be praising Reagan as a demi-god.  So, don't tell me its Obama's policies, it's his skin color.

Anyway, I digress.  Using Biblical principles, George W. Bush would be a bad king.  So would many other modern day Republicans.  Yet, these are the people that conservative Christians back and believe wholeheartedly.

We also should review John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and the Republican leadership in the House and Senate who are doing everything they can to prevent passing legislation that would help America grow economically and with jobs as well as attempting to cut as much as the social safety net as possible.  I don't see how that is Godly or Biblical.  But, it is political.   As evidence of this, here is a column that touches on policies that create jobs and the Republicans that prevent them.

http://www.uawfordcommunity.org/index.php/news/news-that-matters/political-news/item/165-joyfully-plotting-our-destruction

One last item, look at Governors, kings of their states.  Numerous Republican governors have attacked workers, the poor and seniors and have taken from them and given to the already wealthy in the form of tax cuts.  When people tell me we are under judgement because of gays and liberals, I think the truth is we are under judgement because those who claim they are Christian truly support what the Republicans are doing.  And they are the money changers that Jesus threw out of the temple.