Actor and outspoken Christian Kirk Cameron has some advice for American voters if they want to see the United States make a “spiritual comeback,” and that’s to “vote their values” in November. As believers, we need to focus primarily on a candidate’s policy platform while also taking a look at their previous record to see if they actually stick to their own principles. While neither former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris are without sin, the platform and principles of Trump are far more in line with the values of Christianity than those espoused by Harris. Honestly, voting in this election is a no-brainer.
A report from Fox News said that Cameron also warned Americans that if they choose not to vote, their actions create a vacuum that others will fill. He then stated that believers in Christ have an opportunity to reclaim their “birthright of courage” and lead the nation in a “spiritual comeback.” The assumption of course is that America is now a post-Christian nation. Honestly, he’s right about that. While we were once firmly built on the foundation of the Holy Bible, we have moved further and further away from that until we are almost something completely different from what the Founders intended.
“I believe with all my heart that it is and that God did not create us and rescue us through the Gospel to be cowards,” Cameron stated, according to Breitbart. “And that we have a birthright of courage, and if we will lean into that courage as people of faith and live out our values and put feet to our faith in love, we can and will realign the nation with Heaven’s values.”
In his book, “Born to Be Brave,” Cameron speaks of how dismayed he is that Americans “don’t understand the fundamental principles of how nations and governments are run.” He told Fox: “Every nation is built on some set of presuppositions; a worldview, a philosophy of life, a value set, a religion.”
“In the words of Noah Webster, who was one of our founding fathers… he said every civil government is based on some religion or philosophy of life, and the education of that nation will propagate the religion of that nation,” “The Growing Pains” star explained. “He said in America that foundational religion was Christianity, and it was sewn into their hearts for two centuries through the home and school, public and private.”
“So the whole thing — from the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence — only works if you understand that the foundation needs to be the biblical, moral, spiritual values that the founders were standing on when they wrote it. And if that goes away, the whole thing crumbles,” he added. “And so if the family of faith does not show up and vote their values, well, that just leaves a great big vacuum and others will gladly rush in to fill the void, and then you end up burning the whole thing down from the inside.”
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The actor then tackled the claim made by many leftists that Christians only want to have a “theocracy” and that all of those who are calling for believers to be more active in politics are “Christian nationalists,” saying the use of such terms are just slurs that have been created by folks “who would love to see America crumble because of the values it was built on and its sovereignty as a nation.”
Cameron is most definitely not a defeatist. He said that he sees evidence that America is now headed for revival.
“I feel the rumblings of revival. People are waking up and parents are saying, you know, our forefathers and foremothers didn’t spill their blood in vain. They didn’t suffer and sacrifice and go through all the things that they did to give us the freest, strongest, most blessed and generous nation in the world for us to just hand it away on our watch,” he remarked.