Eric Metaxas (Stupidly) Says Pastors Who Won’t Preach on the Need to Vote are No Better Than Pro-Choicers
Christian author and political commentator Eric Metaxas is belting out a bunch of bad theology again, declaring that any pastor who doesn’t spend their next sermon insisting that their congregants vote might as well be preaching pro-choice rhetoric.
We’ve previously featured Metaxas after he sucker-punched a passing Antifa protester in the summer of 2020, claimed that Christian leaders who don’t talk about Hunter Biden’s laptop or the ‘January 6 hoax’ should be compared to cowardly German pastors who stayed silent during the holocaust during WW2, and praised the “genius” of a drag queen performer who also wrote the off-Broadway play Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, saying he was a “big fan.”
In what is a truly stupid, unbiblical, and dangerous view, Metaxas offers this shiny new idiosyncratic assertion that he picked up in the pits of hell:
If your pastor doesn’t INSIST you vote in his next sermon, he may as well preach on the blessings of abortion. It’s the same thing. And if you attend a church like that, you share in the guilt. It’s almost past time that the American church repent & turn from its wicked ways.
Pastor David Fairchild of C3Houston put out a concise and pointed objection:
“You’re promoting division within the church, adopting moral equivalence, and guilting the saints if they choose to forgo voting. I wrote a piece encouraging our church to vote, but I would NEVER dare bind their conscience to a privilege and demand they vote if they choose not to. You repent for sin. Not voting is not a sin. Attempting to extrapolate such a view means you need to think more deeply about your soteriology and ecclesiology.
Put another way, like his January 6/ Biden laptop statement in the previously mentioned link, Metaxas is seeking to rip Christians out of good churches by attacking pastors who won’t preach on his pet beliefs at a time and manner he sees fit. It’s despicable, and the fact that Metaxas is so regularly confused about the purpose and praxis of the church would suggest that if anyone can benefit from being in a sound one, it’s him.