In other words, you're more gullible for putting faith in God than voting for someone based on a false promises.
I'd have to disagree with that one. Politician's promises, especially over the last few decades, have been nothing but false promises, whereas God's promises in the Bible, it can be argued, are yet to be fulfilled. Based on that, I would say that putting faith in Christ's promises is less gullible than putting faith in modern-day politician's promises. "Gullible" derives from "gull" (seagulls), which will swallow anything. Christ's promises have not been fulfilled yet, while politician's promises have not been fulfilled during their term in office. There is a difference. Time will tell, ultimately the wisdom of belief in Christ's promises. I, for one, choose to have faith in them (Christ's teachings). That doesn't mean I wouldn't vote for a politician, however. BA- Puts faith in Christ. PS- Mark Twain, as well as a few other wise men, had a thing or two to say on this subject: Look at the tyranny of party--at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty--a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes--and which turns voters into chattles, slaves, rabbits, and all the while their masters, and they themselves are shouting rubbish about liberty, independence, freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, honestly unconscious of the fantastic contradiction; and forgetting or ignoring that their fathers and the churches shouted the same blasphemies a generation earlier when they were closing their doors against the hunted slave, beating his handful of humane defenders with Bible texts and billies, and pocketing the insults and licking the shoes of his Southern master. - "The Character of Man," Mark Twain's Autobiography
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. -Mark Twain
And, he gave it for his Opinion; that whoever could make two Ears of Corn, or two Blades of Grass to grow upon a Spot of Ground where only one grew before; would deserve better of Mankind, and do more essential Service to his Country, than the whole Race of Politicians put together. - Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should be. May I never look at the other findings until I have come to my own true conclusions: May I care for the least of the young: and become aware of the one poem that each may have written; may I be aware of what each thing is, delighted with form, and wary of the false comparison; may I never use the word "brilliant." — Theodore Roethke