I recently reviewed Electing Not to Vote: Christian Reflections on Reasons for Not Voting. Since I afterward received several e-mails asking me if I voted in the election, I thought I would explain to a wider audience why I didn't vote.

Reading Electing Not to Vote did not persuade me to not vote. I was already a Christian non-voter. Although, as I mentioned in a 2012 article titled "My View of Politics," I am a student of, and a commentator on, politics, I am not political in any way. Not only do I not vote, I don't donate to political campaigns, endorse candidates, campaign for anyone, frequent political events, or watch political debates. I loathe politicians, and especially members of Congress.

Since I was not asked to contribute to Electing Not to Vote when it was initially published, I here offer some brief remarks as to why I as a Christian and a libertarian didn't vote. 

Voting is the sacrament of the America civic religion. Since I'm not an adherent of the American civic religion and don't even believe in religious sacraments, I certainly am not going to partake of this unholy sacrament.

When most Christians say that you should vote, what they really mean is that you should vote Republican. They would be horrified if you said you were going to vote for a Democrat. But the GOP, as I have written about many times, is rotten to the core. I can't support the GOP any more than I can support the Democratic Party. As George Wallace said: "There is not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican parties."

I don't have the statistics in front of me, but I believe that you have a greater chance of getting in a car accident on the way to your polling place or slipping in your bathtub when you are getting ready to go vote than your vote having any significance.