Mark Davis: American Blackout - A Christian Viewpoint

With the Host of the Spiritual Politician
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

Friday, August, 2006 4 pm PDT

This Week's Show
Our Guest: Mark Davis

On the Spiritual Politician host Melinda Pillsbury-Foster and Mark Davis of Data Productions, will discuss the nuts and bolts of America's electoral system and consider what America's political system does to honesty and to our relationship with Christ.

Honesty in politics has become an increasingly important issue with Americans today. In a political establishment that tends to debate the meaning of “is” the idea that lying to achieve election or using underhanded means to impact electoral outcomes disgusts Americans who feel helpless in the grip of a system that refuses liability for their own actions.

Mark will answer questions about his own work and about his views of politics and America.

Questions to be considered will include: “Does the present climate in politics makes it impossible for honest people to be elected?”

On the Spiritual Politician the question of how to bring politics and government into alignment with the relationship we are mandated by Christ to have with each other is always in order. How can the American electoral system fulfill the charge Christ left with us. That charge was then and remains today that we are one in Christ and are to treat each other as brothers and sisters.

So the question considered will be if American government today is acting as an agent for Christians as we were directed to act by Christ.

Mr. Davis is a black, evangelical, Christian living in Duluth, Georgia. His father was a Republican candidate for governor and he is a life time Republican himself.

What the Show is about and being a Spiritual Politician

Bringing government into alignment with the Lessons of Jesus:

The focus of our show is how to bring government into alignment with truth of our spiritual nature. So

America started with the idea we are all, inherently free. We are free to choose, free to live, to breath, and to live our lives as we see fit. Government does not own us; government is just a contractor, providing service.

That framework is in alignment with the spiritual truth that each of us connects to God directly, needing no agency as an intermediary. To be free is to be free in the spirit ans so in the flesh that temporarily holds the spirit.

When Thomas Jefferson said we were all possessed of inherent rights, existing before government he was extending a spiritual truth into a civic form. It is that Mission Statement from the Declaration of Independence we need to keep in mind.

Because we are free and reject, as did Christ, the use of deceit, manipulation or violence we need to be conscious about our relationships with others and find ways to grow into the sense of connection and community that makes us One in Him.

This is especially true for Christians but it is true for everyone else as well.

Nearly every major spiritual viewpoint enunciates the idea that we are connected to each other and should be good to each other. Christians just have an even more exacting mission. Christians are to love every one, treating them as they would Jesus.

Jesus was very clear about how we were to treat others. He did not say that it was alright to be abusive, deceitful, and violent if we used government as our tool and agent. There was no exception, He wanted all of our hearts, minds and souls. Christ did not lay out any plan of government, but left it to the conscience of the individual, the same way He connects to each of us.

We are Americans but we are also members of a human family that connects us to something truly wonderful and immense.

So our job here at the Spiritual Politician is to look at Government as a human tool we use every day. We need to consider if government is working in a way that speaks that common understanding about our connections to each other and, if it is not, we need to change it.

Americans have had many successes over the last 231 years since our founding and, learning from both mistakes and successes we can consider that question. So here at the Spiritual Politician we look at the truth behind of rhetoric.

Given what is going on today in Government what we may decide to do it reboot the whole system.