Exit polling showed that 26% of Tuesday’s voters were non-religious, and 77% of them were Democrats. As Not the Bee’s Harris Rigby explains, “Sure, the faithful turned out in much higher total numbers, but the ‘nones,’ the people who might be spiritual but don’t adhere to any specific religion, had the highest turnout as a percentage.”

For the non-religious, Tuesday’s election result feels like a justification for their soul sickness and a mandate to mete out deadly judgment on the rest of us who disagree with them. Case in point: Deranged leftists flooded social media with threats against conservatives, telling them to watch out because they’re coming for them.

(Warning: video uses foul language.)

By contrast, Protestants displayed a severely depressed desire to vote this year. According to Axios, “White evangelical or born-again Christians accounted for 17% of voters Tuesday, down from 23% in 2024 and 24% in 2022.”

And as political analyst Gary Bauer notes, “White evangelicals, a core conservative voting bloc, consistently make up about 25% of the electorate in presidential or midterm elections. This year, however, they accounted for only 17% of the electorate. That’s a third fewer conservative Christians showing up to vote. If you run the numbers, it means we lost 8 to 10 million conservative votes. That’s huge!”

Why? Some speculate Trump fatigue, the economy, or the war with Iran. It’s probably some combination of all three. As a result, Christian values and the candidates who would help maintain the bulwark of those values were put in jeopardy.

What’s even more tragic is that many of Tuesday’s non-religious voters ushered in Senator-elect James Talarico, a seminarian in Texas, and Senator-elect Adam Hamilton, a megachurch pastor in Kansas. They join Georgia Senator and pastor Raphael Warnock in representing a “palatable” version of Christianity to the Left — which one can validly argue isn’t Christianity at all.

Christians, by not showing up, ceded ground — not only by not sticking up for their own values but by allowing false representatives of our faith to have a platform at the federal level. Do you think any of these so-called “Christians” will stand up for preborn babies in the womb who have no voice? Do you think they will stand against the ideology of transgenderism that harms children? No, of course not.

We have the freedom to do with our votes what we want. But as Christians, failing to do our part to shape the political direction of our country by abstaining is a failure in our duty.

At the end of the day, God sits on his throne, and nothing surprises Him. We cling to his promises and his judgment. We pray continually for the renewal of our country; for the healing of rifts in our culture; and, most importantly, for God to continue giving us the opportunity to share the good news of Christ with all of our neighbors — including the nose-ringed ones who tell us on social media that they want to kill us. Our duty is to testify to them and let God do the rest.