Letting God Sweat the Small Stuff, Or, Why Christians Should Vote For Ron Paul

One of the standard Ron Paul stories picked up by the mainstream media and repeated ad nauseum is his reputed unpopularity with self-identified Christians, and Evangelical Protestants in particular. It is usually stated that fans of Paul (that is Paul of Texas, not Tarsus) usually chime in at about 15% of the Evangelical demographic. What the articles don’t point out is that this is about the average for most other demographics as well, unless you’re talking about young people and party independents or for that matter "mind independents" in which case the digits could easily be reversed, making for a slim majority.

What I am wondering is if Paul’s support reaches even as high as 15% among atheists? And I’m not just talking about your die-hard Stalinist democratic centralists. Somehow Ron Paul seems to bring out the mean streak (as if it were hard to bring out) in the followers of atheist Ayn Rand. This latter is a mystery, and may have something to with the fact that Paul is a Christian, born into a family which regularly supplied pastors to the Lutheran church. Or it may have something to do with copyright violations on naming one’s children…go figure.

Be that as it may, voting for Ron Paul is a no brainer for any Christian, and I don’t mean just those who style themselves "Christian libertarians"…albeit these latter have a noble pedigree going all the way back to John Lock himself (and no, I don’t mean the spooky character on Lost, but the authentic article who inspired the Founders). After all, it’s not fair to box Christians into some sort of air-tight ideological compartment, since according to the gospel one is supposed to be accountable to the Spirit rather than the supposed consistency of worldly philosophies.

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