Every election, Christians wring their hands over the two profoundly unsatisfactory candidates that our political system presents us with, and debate whether it’s appropriate to vote for the lesser of two evils, and which one that is? In this video, we discuss some commonsensical principles of classic moral reasoning to help us gain clarity on this important question.
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Video Questions
00:50: How the American voting system (“First Past the Post”) creates this dilemma for us.
1:45: How should we understand what voting actually is?
2:40: Must we choose a Christian for public office if one of the candidates professes Christ?
3:20: How should the moral character of a candidate affect our decisions?
4:00: What if both candidates are proposing positive evils? How do we avoid being complicit in evil? Here we introduce the distinction between “formal” and “material” cooperation with evil.
6:00: Given these complexities, how should we approach these matters with fellow Christians?