I am really enjoying the commentary at The Price of Liberty and I need to add it to my blogroll. On March 24, Doug Newman wrote:

Romans 12:9 instructs us to 'abhor that which is evil.' There is no exclusion for voting. Christians are supposed to abhor evil. Period. The lesser of two evils is still evil, and we Christians are not to put our stamp of approval on it.

Don't vote for evil just because everyone else does. Our current form of government (OCFOG), which Hillary, Obama and McCain all fully intend to make larger, costlier and more intrusive than ever, is evil. There is nothing sacred about it whatsoever. No, this is not Kim Jong-Il's North Korea. Yet millions will vote away what is left of our freedom for no better reason than that they want to vote for a winning candidate. As an old friend once said, I don't mind losing elections, but I do mind losing my freedom.

I would correct one thing he said, though. At the beginning of the commentary, he said, "While the Bible says nothing about voting, it does guide us on how we should live."

I disagree.

I think the Bible does say something about voting. It's part of a favorite passage of mine that I use when people suggest that God endorsed a monarchical system:

Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. (Exodus 18:21)

In Exodus 18:13-27, Jethro counseled Moses to establish a representative appellate court. The people were self-governed and every seven years heard the reading of the Law. This was their government until the time of Samuel.

In 1 Samuel 8:4-22, the elders of Israel asked Samuel to make a king to judge them. In this passage, the Lord tells Samuel all the terrible things a king would do, such as taking their sons to war, taking their property and giving it to his servants, taking a tithe for his officers and servants (if only our taxes were just a tenth!), taking their young men and donkeys for his public works, and taking a tithe of their sheep.

So, I would say that God did want us to be self-governed and wanted us to elect our own representatives: able men, God-fearing men, truthful men, benevolent men.

None of our "top three" qualify.