Evangelical & False Piety
- Ricky Kyles
- 5 days ago
- 3 min read
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I still remember the night of Barack Obama's election like it was yesterday. I was serving on Active Duty in the US Army.
Like many Americans, especially African Americans, the possibility of a Person of Color being elected to the highest office of the land was a game-changer for race relations in America.
Like many others, I was proud that America had for the first time actually lived in manner consistent with the both the lofty inspiring aspiration of the Declaration of Independence and the challenge proffered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr during his famous speech during the March on Washington rally where he longed for a time when his children would be judged on the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
Despite the momentous nature of the historic occasions, while members of Ebenezer Baptist Church, an iconic African American church in Atlanta, Georgia, and pastored by Dr. King and now pastored by US Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, were captured on film celebrating as if Jesus Christ had returned and established His Millennium reign upon the Earth, I sat in living room dejected and deeply saddened.
I could not, no, I would not, celebrate the election of Barack Hussein Obama for a straightforward reason: my identity as someone hidden in Christ forbade me from aligning with any entity expressly in rebellion to God’s explicit teaching on moral issues.
Yet to this day, I remain flabbergasted that 94% of the African American Evangelicals who claimed the same felicity to the Lordship of Jesus Christ made the conscious volitional decision to walk into a ballot booth and cast their lot with Barack Hussein Obama.
They did so knowing his position on abortion, positioning him as the most Pro-Abortion President in US history at the time. Only, of course, to be surpassed by Hillary Clinton, who was surpassed by Joe Biden, who Kamala Harris surpassed, and I guarantee the 2028 Democratic standard bearer for POTUS will surpass them all.
I remain fluxommed as to how any genuine, sincere Christ-follower would ever for one scintilla of a second consider partnering politically with such a God-hating political party remains the quandary of my lifetime.
Sadly, many of the people I know and love are guilty of this duplicity, and many do so with full chest and full-throatedly. I fear for their eternal disposition and have pledged to do all I can to sound the alarm as loud as I can.
Here are the cold hard facts:
In 2008 and 2012, millions of voters faced clear moral choices at the ballot box. Yet a significant number of self-identified Evangelicals cast their votes for Barack Obama — a candidate who repeatedly supported expanded legal abortion access, federal funding streams tied to Planned Parenthood, and ultimately backed same-sex marriage as a matter of public policy. This wasn’t political nuance. It was a a moral contradiction.
Let’s be honest: Evangelicals spent decades warning the nation about moral decay — from Roe v. Wade to threats against religious liberty — yet when it counted, many waved off those same concerns and voted for a president whose policies directly undermined them. That wasn’t thoughtful deliberation driven by Scripture. It was sentiment, racial symbolism, and cultural pride that outweighed obedience to biblical conviction.
If you genuinely believe abortion is unjust killing, then supporting leaders who defend it isn’t compassion — it’s collaboration. If you claim Scripture is authoritative, then affirming the policies of Barack Obama — in two presidential elections — while ignoring his record is not theological depth; it’s double-minded compromise. When identity politics outweighs clear moral teaching, that’s not Christian courage — it’s cowardice in the name of cultural acceptance.
If the church wants moral authority in public life, it has to stop abandoning its own convictions at the ballot box. Period.
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