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Humour just has to be one of my favourite things and any time there is some kind of political turmoil you can bet you the jokes will fly. It is easy for us here in S.A. to take a non emotional approach to looking at the American elections, but we all know in truth that what happens in the USA does not stay in the USA, it affects global markets and the lives of almost everyone.
Most interesting for me this time round though is reading the articles about the opinion that it is the American evangelical movement that seems to have had the last word in this election. Being anti abortion myself, I can well understand that more people voted for Trump than Clinton on this one issue alone.
That being said, I respect Trump as a business man and although he was blowing hot air about a lot of issues at the heart of it, America is a capitalist society and money talks. People want a leader who will develop the nation financially. This lesson is one that most South Africans still have to learn and stealing Bill Clinton's campaign theme phrase, "its the economy, stupid."
Back to the church though and its role in this election. I could not be happier that this is one core outcome that the media are highlighting. It means that the Church of Christ in America is finally standing up and making themselves heard in a powerful and meaningful way.
In history, although many nations plundered Africa for its wealth, the one thing that America did right was send missionaries to this continent, lots of them. I have been personally impacted by this by the very close relationship that our family had in Nelspruit with the Christ family, who were here to do just that, spread the word of God to African people during our nations difficult apartheid years.
This election should give hope to all Christians that they too can make a difference in the politics of their nation if they will stand up and vote....and where you can't vote...Pray!
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