https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/october-web-only/speak-truth-to-trump.html
Most Christians who support Trump have done so with
reluctant strategic calculation, largely based on the president’s power
to appoint members of the Supreme Court. Important issues are indeed at
stake, including the right of Christians and adherents of other
religions to uphold their vision of sexual integrity and marriage even
if they are in the cultural minority.
But there is a point at which strategy becomes its own
form of idolatry—an attempt to manipulate the levers of history in favor
of the causes we support. Strategy becomes idolatry, for ancient Israel
and for us today, when we make alliances with those who seem to offer
strength—the chariots of Egypt, the vassal kings of Rome—at the expense
of our dependence on God who judges all nations, and in defiance of
God’s manifest concern for the stranger, the widow, the orphan, and the
oppressed. Strategy becomes idolatry when we betray our deepest values
in pursuit of earthly influence. And because such strategy requires
capitulating to idols and princes and denying the true God, it
ultimately always fails.
