A man is sitting on the roof of his humble home, escaping a rising flood that has devastated his community. A National Guard amphibious craft comes by and calls out to the man to climb aboard.
A while later, the floodwaters are even higher, and a sheriff’s deputy in a rowboat comes up to what still shows of the house. He calls out to the man to come aboard.
A while later, the floodwaters are up to the man’s chest. A neighbor in a rubber raft drifts by and offers the man a final way out.
People of all political parties and ideologies have been known to exhibit contradictory feelings about how people motivated by religion get involved in politics.