A Pastor and Politician Who Sees Voting as a Form of Prayer

[Cattledog]

He likened voting to a “prayer for the world we desire,” and called democracy the “political enactment of a spiritual idea,” that everyone has a divine spark.

He invoked the legacies of civil rights heroes and “martyrs” who fought and sometimes died for the right to vote, even as he promised to pursue bipartisanship in pressing his policy ambitions.

Exulting in his victory Tuesday night, Senator Raphael Warnock showcased the dualities that have defined his career in public life.

He is a man of deep faith, the senior pastor at the Atlanta church where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached. And he is also a political tactician who has long believed that “the church’s work doesn’t end at the church door. That’s where it starts.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/us/politics/raphael-warnock-georgia-senator-pastor.html

[Croney]

1. As an atheist, I remind myself that not everyone is like me.

Many Senators pray, go to church, and believe in God. I mustn't hold being a pastor against Sen. Warnock; I must remember that he will be a vital upholder of Democracy in the coming months and years.

The separation of church and state is important to me. A good politician can believe in God and still enforce that separation in the law. I'm thrilled that he won.

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2. A vote is a kind of prayer for the type of world we desire

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