There is certainly a case to be made for voting being a participation in tyranny, but I am not sure I would use that verse to support the claim. I also think it depends very heavily on who you are voting for, and why. Not even a red vs blue, thing. I would not say that there is one objectively clear answer for who would be more tyrannical such that someone could have any leg to stand on by saying, "If you don't vote for Trump, you're voting for more tyranny!" Fact is, you may have just as much tyranny, just of a different brand.

Rather, it depends on the individual perception of the particular voter. If they BELIEVE that a particular candidate will not be tyrannical, or will even be less tyrannical than the others, voting for that candidate is not morally wrong, even if they are 100% incorrect in their perception. Much better for them to actually be informed and have an accurate expectation of what that candidate would actually do in office, though.

Circling back to that particular verse; the "unfruitful works of darkness" mentioned in Ephesians 5:11 is almost certainly referring to the specific examples Paul gave in verses 3-5. That is, sexual immorality, impurity, covetousness, filthiness, foolish talk, and crude joking. I don't see voting, or anything at all to do with our relation to the civil magistrate, mentioned. As always, a text without its context is a pretext for a proof-text.

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i disagree... if you get distracted by the Devil he is winnning

the time you spend thinking about this punch and judy show is time you aren't using to think about how to actually keep them from influencing your existence

and i don't think it is expected that being no part of bullshit is going to come cheap

if you care that much about your shiny car and your fancy house you don't really care about the Lord

Fair, but you have yet to establish that voting, or taking time to make an informed vote can be accurately defined as being "distracted by the devil."

There is definitely an opportunity cost to taking that time, as you mentioned, but the same can be said of ANYTHING we do with our time. The time we are thinking about what we will eat for dinner is also time we aren't thinking about how to keep those in civil office from influencing our lives, too. Doesn't mean it's not time we either need or ought to spend.

Sincerely, someone with neither a shiny car or a fancy house.

the threat they pose is the thing that gives them attention... and the solutions are usually fairly simple - they are cheapskates, and rob the herd where it is thickest

also, they have so much voting intelligence going on these days that it's only if you are one of those "battleground" people that you even have a real influence

democracy is a scam the purpose of which is to misdirect the attention of people from the bigger plot they are running