Who would Jesus vote for?
An event at Bunhill Friends Meeting House asked who Jesus would vote for in the general election
A group of Friends in London put Christ firmly at the heart of their pre-election preparations in asking: Who would Jesus vote for?
Christian Quaker Meeting attenders gathered at Bunhill Friends Meeting House on 25 April. They asked: ‘Is it right to vote for man-made government whilst upholding the belief that Christ has come to teach, guide and lead his people himself?’
With the main political parties supporting Trident, and all parties maintaining a system which has physical force as the bottom line, they asked whether, as Quakers, they had really thought through what voting and the state are. They also asked how this fits with the Quaker experience of discernment.
Simon Watson told the Friend: ‘We considered that the important contribution of Quakerism is our understanding of how the Light and power within sets people free from self-interest. This in itself creates a new society radically different from the one rooted in capitalist greed, social isolation and environmental carelessness…’
‘In many ways the question is not so much “who will Jesus vote for?”, but “who will vote for Jesus?”’
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