>>Well I appreciate your thoughts but don't you either put your trust in men or God? Dont you either put your hopes and wishes in one or the other?
I take it from your questions that you feel this way. It is one or the other. I don't see it that way. That sounds too black-and-white for me, surely there is some middle ground between those extremes?
Maybe it would help if I better understood what you mean by "put your trust in" something. When you say that, what do you mean?
I ask because I don't put my trust in anyone. Each person I meet shows themselves to be trustworthy to a lesser or greater extent in various slices of the world. For instance, I'm a lanky, geeky sort of guy. If I told you, "I'll protect you, trust me" you'd be a fool if you trusted me to do that. On the other hand if I told you I would take your money to the bank and deposit it for you, you really could trust me to do that. (No, really!)
A person might trust God to give him direction from the Bible. He might trust him implicitly. But I don't see why that would preclude him from trusting a certain political figure more than another. He would likely put a much greater level of trust in his god than in his politicians, but it wouldn't have to be either/or.
On the responsibility issue: Since you live under a government that gives you the right to vote, I would think you'd be as culpable for the outcome if you chose not to vote (casting an implicit vote for whoever wins) as you would be if you cast a vote. The only way you could relieve yourself of that responsibility would be to vote for whoever you thought was the least bad. Or you could play the "one vote doesn't matter" card and drop the whole thing.
I'm still not seeing this as a "gullibility" issue, though. Do you see it that way?
Dave