At a recent rally in Juneau, Wisconsin, Donald Trump urged evangelical Christians to vote, saying:

I’ll tell you another one that don’t vote — I love these people — evangelical Christians. The Christian community doesn’t vote as much as they should. They go to church. So now what we are going to do is go to church and we are to get out and vote. ... If they did vote, we couldn’t lose an election.

Trump’s concerns are echoed by a recent article in The Jerusalem Post, which cites a recent report from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University. The study revealed that “approximately 104 million people of faith, including 32 million self-identified Christians who regularly attend church, may abstain from voting this November.”

The report cites lack of interest in politics among both congregants and pastors, as well as lack of engagement with social issues. Some pastors even refuse to encourage congregants to vote.

A deeper reason many evangelicals (and other Christians) are not voting is that many churches and church leaders over the last few decades gradually have absorbed the left’s draconian secularist view of separation of Church and State. In essence, the agenda requires the total submission of the former to the latter. Worse, in the past and even in the present, secularist totalitarian regimes like the CCP seek to eliminate the Christian religion altogether, replacing it with anti-God ideology.

Unfortunately, many Christians have not adequately understood, much less defended the history of or the original meaning of the separation of Church and State as understood by the writers of the Constitution: that the state would not establish a particular denomination as the official church of the land.

Those who fought in the American Revolution knew they were fighting a government that was allied with a particular church — namely, the Anglican church........

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