I already hear the counterargument: “And Christians are not of this world – so they do not participate in elections!”. Christians are merciful people who hate EVIL (not the evil ones, not the hypostases-persons, but the disease that they are bound by, possessed) in any forms and manifestations, and on every occasion to reduce or even destroy evil – they do it: feed the needy, give drink, clothe, comfort, reduce-ease pain, suffering, prevent murder, stop or reduce terror, war, genocide, etc. Therefore, if under one or another president (mayor, deputy, or party) people will live a little better in the flesh33, then the merciful will certainly and in this way – go to the elections and vote for this candidate – give alms! The theorem is proven.
Let us tell the man (or woman) who, according to their “Christian” conscience (awareness), cannot participate in (democratic) elections and choose between evil (criminals)…
If you are not listed among the candidates, you do not go to the polls because they are all criminals! But if your name were added to these lists, would you then go to the polls, or would everyone, including yourself, still be criminals?! Let’s ask again: if you, man, were listed as a candidate (for president, parliament, mayor…), would you go to the polls?! Would you vote?! And then, wouldn’t your choice (if you chose yourself from all the candidates) still be between evil and evil (unless you are not a sinner, not a criminal – but a sinless, infallible saint?!)?! Yes, you might feel like the best specialist among the candidates (and this might be true; Apostle Paul considered himself no less than other apostles, and moreover, he knew (and openly testified: wrote and spoke!) that he worked harder than all of them combined in spreading the Good News of the Kingdom of God (see Gal. 2: 6, 11-15; 1 Cor. 15: 10)) – so you voted for yourself, and even campaigned for others to vote for you (sincerely wanting to serve your people with your talents, knowledge, and skills, being convinced that you are the best specialist; otherwise, if you sincerely wish happiness to these people (= a patriot), you would give way to those better than you (the best)). (And if you consider yourself better than others not by professional, technical standards, but by spiritual parameters (claiming to be holier, kinder, more moral, more patriotic…), then, of course, that is pride and judgment, here lies delusion and self-deception). But if you are not listed among the candidates (for various reasons), do not behave like a small offended child and choose the best among those who are listed (according to your conviction). For example, if you are an ace pilot (the best pilot in the world), but you were not included in the list of candidates for the chief pilot position (and you and those you love have to fly on this plane), choose the best among the contenders. And if there are no pilots on the candidate list, choose by other criteria, based on the information you know about the candidates (adequacy, patriotism, education, what iceberg peak, what forces (patriotic, hostile, etc.) the candidate represents, etc.).
This is an example of a situation (an action plan-algorithm) with a margin. But in reality, everything is often much simpler and more obvious. In those crucial elections, the choice had to be made between two candidates based on professional abilities (the second round of evaluating abilities-qualities was not needed): one “pilot” (the incumbent president) flew a certain number of hours in five years (there were all kinds of landings: hard landings, crashes… corruption-scandalous, appointment-mistakes… Ilovaisk-Debaltseve…) and another who had no relation to aviation, air transportation, air communications (international politics, foreign relations), – except that he once flew as a passenger (to Moscow or Turkey, telling that Ukraine is a prostitute, Ukrainians are fools, and Russians are so kind, friendly), or joked about domestic aviation and mocked its pilots!? Indeed, in such elections, there is no choice – for mentally normal people, the choice is unequivocal! There is no need to talk about Christian awareness here – only about mental state and adequacy! The theorem is proven!
We should also mention those who considered themselves offended (at the time of the 2019 elections). To bring the offended to their senses (at least try, because pride and cunning are not treated by human means (see part IV), – maybe someone is not hopelessly offended and is still in the zone of influence of human sober truthful words), let’s say a few words about the State as a Sovereign, integral reality. The ancients spoke of the state as a body. And in the body, there are many different organs, organ systems, responsible for education, medicine, economy, etc. The body of Ukraine is gravely ill! This body has so many chronic diseases, genetic defects, that it is impossible to start listing them. There is no system of organs in the state that is not afflicted with a severe illness. Every election is accompanied by hopes that people will come to power who will cure these diseases. But this is impossible – there will be no kingdom of God on earth!!! And here, for the first time in the history of independence, the body began to recover, strengthen, come to life, the majority (doctors, teachers, bankers…) suddenly took offense, saying that their sectors are not being reformed correctly, not being healed properly, etc. Therefore, everyone unanimously shouted: away with this president, away with this parliament, let it be anyone (even Yanukovych, it was better under him!? Even Putin or his puppet!? Anyone…), just not these crooks, dealers-corruptors. There were no worse than these Poroshenko supporters!? I will not argue with specialists (teachers, doctors, bankers…) – they know better, but I want to talk about something more important. If there is a threat to the existence, life of the whole body, then what can be said about the system of organs (education, medicine, banking system…)?! First, you need to save life! And only then or in the process of saving, treat local diseases! But these poor ones were so offended that they completely forgot about threat № 1 – the war in eastern Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea – and missed the opening of the second front: the green men took over the office of the president and parliament and government! Poroshenko supporters handled this threat excellently, but the offended were not interested. These Pharisees strained out a gnat but swallowed the Mordorian camel (or Trojan-Mordorian horse)!? Is this patriotism?! Is this wishing happiness to your people?! And is this caring about education, economy, medicine, the banking system… if you do not primarily care about the life of the body-integrity-sovereignty of the state, in which these systems can only exist! If the body dies, then all its systems and organs will automatically stop functioning! The theorem is proven!