The Problem With God: The Danger of "God Told Me"

The problem with Colorado politics is not the voters.

The problem with Colorado politics is not the democrats.

The problem with Colorado politics is not the broken system.

The problem with Colorado politics could very well be a variety of different bullet points.

It could be the different factions within the Republican party. It could be the Billionaire elites that took over the state some 15 or 20 years ago. It could be the voting machines or the fraud and waste happening at the capital. It could be the excessive fees that continue to get voted in because it is an easy way for politicians to bypass raising taxes to support their money grabbing habits.

Maybe the problem in Colorado is none of the above.

Maybe the problem is God.

I don’t mean that in the way you may think I mean that.

The 2026 republican primary has turned out to be a spectacle, and we still have 6 days until the ballots are sent out, with another 3 weeks after that before the election actually takes place.

All eyes were on Colorado as the primary debate, featuring the 3 remaining candidates took the stage tonight to to face each other for the first time, at the same time, in the same place. The moderator and left leaning journalist, Kyle Clark, brought everything possible to the table. All the accusations, all the questions and all of the unanswered questions.

The circus of a wannabe debate, did not disappoint.

Clark came out swing pretty early. Bringing to the forefront that both Scott Bottoms and Barb Kirkmeyer both said they would not support Victor Marx if he were to win the republican nomination.

Both Bottoms and Kirkmeyer confirmed where they stood with their lack of support for Marx while Marx responded to each candidate by telling them that they are mean. A light hearted response? Sure. A confident, leadership filled response? Not so much.

All through the debate, if you want to call it that, Victor Marx and Scott Bottoms seemed to be fighting the moderator more than debating the other candidates while Barb Kirkmeyer seemed to be getting soft balls lobbed in her direction the entire evening.

If you are someone who follows politics pretty closely, you might say that it wasn’t as much as she was getting the easy questions, but rather that she is a polished and seasoned politician, with over 20 years of experience under her belt.

If you knew nothing about any of three candidates going into the debate, and you watched or listened with no bias, in my opinion, you might say that Mrs. Kirkmeyer won the night.

This is a very skewed opinion though considering the constant attacks by Kyle Clark. It’s as if his goal was to prop up Kirkmeyer; but that’s just an opinion as an observer who has watched each candidate handle their opposition over the past couple of months.

In regards to opposition, Marx told the audience and whoever was watching online, that the other two candidates were not his competition. That the two democrat candidates were his competition. He later repeated this position in a social media post on his drive home from the debate.

Many times over the past few months we have heard Victor Marx tell anyone who listens that he prayed about it and God told him to run for Governor; and while I have no problem with a man believing God told him to do something, I also believe that some things need to be held closer to your vest.

Many have called Victor Marx a grifter and a con man; and while everyone is certainly entitled to their opinion, I want to give a different perspective than just jumping to name calling.

While “grifter” and “con man” can be synonymous with each other, and two very descriptive words that point to how we feel about a person, I do believe we are facing a bigger problem then grifting or conning.

The bigger problem is God.

Somewhere along the way, we have turned God into the excuse for everything, and while God isn’t necessarily the problem, we have brought him into the center of the mess of Colorado Politics without even considering God himself.

For generations, Christians have evolved to the point where we worship the man behind the pulpit and we hang on every word that is spoken from the podium. The platform has become an idol that we bow to in the name of God.

Where the Bible says that no man comes between God and man save for Jesus himself, we have become so enamored with the pastors and the politicians of our day, that we hang on every word that they say.

We attend church so we can hear what the preacher has to say from the scriptures, rather then read the Bible ourselves. We believe what we hear from the talking heads because they have the microphone before we ever shake their hands or look them in the eyes.

All three candidates in the Republican primary claim to be Christians. All three candidates claim to have good morals and a good foundation, based on christian principles; and while I’m not here to debate anyones faith, I will question their motives. Not because I believe they are lying or because I believe they are wrong; but because I care about the after affects.

As a christian myself, I never want to claim to know everything about God or all their is to know about the scriptures, but I do think we should never use God as a crutch for our beliefs or our decisions.

The problem with telling people that “God” told you to do something is that it leaves no room for discussion and it puts the human in a position of authority with no room for error. No man was ever created to be the ultimate authority. No man was created to be the final authority.

When you tell the world that God told you to run for office and that you are in the race to win, you are telling people that it does not matter their opinion, it does not matter their candidate of choice, it does not matter if they believe God told them that someone else would win. It tells every potential voter that if you don’t vote for him, you are voting against God. It tells every single person that believes contrary that they are wrong and that you are right.

We have fallen trap to the idea that the only person that can hear from God is the one with the microphone.

When a pastor or a politician tells anyone that “God told them,” it leaves no room for God to speak to anyone else.

This does not mean that either don’t hear from God. This means that there is a time and place to use God.

Why?

What if Victor loses? How many people who hang on to every word that he says will now question God?

What if Victor wins? How many people who believed that their candidate was supposed to be the winner will now question God?

In a field filled with Christians, a field filled with good people who all, from a birds eye view, appear to want to please God with their decisions. Which one really heard God?

I believe the famous quote from Edmund Burke holds true. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

I believe every candidate on the stage tonight has good intentions. Each candidate wants the best for their state and their families who live in this state. Each candidate has laid down their own life, and their own career to pursue leading the state.

In life, we ultimately have different spectrums in almost every area of influence. The opposite ends and the middle. Tonight, we saw three ends of the spectrum in the gubernatorial debate.

The one who has been a politician for a quarter of a century. Barb Kirkmeyer.

The one who claims that he is not a politician. The newcomer, Victor Marx

The one who only jumped into politics after a stolen election in 2020. Scott Bottoms.

I ask you to dig deep and do a real assessment. Do we need a polished career politician in office who has worked closely with democrats, and not in a good way? Barb Kirkmeyer.

Do you want to see a man elected who has fought for our rights in Colorado in the best way that he can, by putting his church on the back burner, to fight for truth at the state capital? Scott Bottoms.

Would you be happy with someone in office that does not know the system, how it works and still believes that our election system is fair and safe? Victor Marx.

The problem with bringing God into Colorado politics is that it usurps the free will of the people.

The problem with bringing God into Colorado Politics is that if the man who claims that God told him to run and win loses, how many will now question God?

The problem with bringing God into Colorado politics is that God can only tell one man that he will win and the rest are going against God. Pastors, good people, and those who fight for us are now null and void because they did not hear from God?

If you have read this far, hopefully you don’t think that I am against God, but rather that I am for God. Just not using him as a crutch. I would rather see people fight for our state to get back to Godly principles than see people fight to defend a man who they may not have ever met, have only ever seen on a video or read in a book, who says he heard from God. It is human to err, but many people will question God when man errs.

In 2026, the problem with God is that he is not running for Governor of Colorado.