Your views are something I feel very strongly pulled towards. God knows, politics, especially in the last few decades, is so depressing a spectacle that one comes to wonder whether one should touch at all the damned (and I mean damned) thing. But the problem with it becomes clear when you admit that other people beside Christians can be honest, have integrities which they prize, be in fact the "laws unto themselves" that St.Paul describes in Romans (and implies that they are saved). How is right that they are allowed to imperil their integrity in the public service, but we are too good to? Does this not risk coming close to the Pharisee's Lord, I thank you that I am so much better than that tax-gatherer over there? And supposing that you felt a strong and honest vocation towards public service (which I, thank God, do not), would not your view ask of that man to "bury his talent"? There is no easy answer, but I do not see that deserting the sphere of public service to people who are, at best, honest without being Christian (and therefore not in sympathy with us) and at worst sheer scoundrels, would be good.