More Politics and Stuff

It’s late, I’m a little tired, and I’m about to do a clean install of Win7 Pro on my laptop, so this will be short. Anyhoes, I keep reading/hearing about the debate of whether Christian morals should be enforced by government, should influence government, should even be used in government; whether or not morality should be a part of government – yadda. You hear about whether the founding fathers were good Christians, bad Christians, not Christians, whatever. It hurts my head, and the answer is so plain and simple. You think it’s not? Well, how’s about this:

If we use guns (government) to enforce Christianity, is it still Christianity?

I’ve grown up in a Christian institution, and I know what it entails. So I have this argument to present to them:

Really, is God honored by a nation of people who, though they don’t believe in him, obey some of his rules because they have to?

Is government even the proper vehicle of instilling a nation with morality? Is forced morality true, Christian morality?

No, no, no, and no. God is not honored any more by a people who “obey” his tenants and rules out of an unbelieving, “forced” attitude because it’s law than he is of a people of unbelievers who are completely against him. In fact, the former is against him, since “legalistic” obedience of his law is very much Pharisaical, and believe you me, I don’t think Jesus liked those Pharisees very much.

“But if we follow God’s law as a nation, we’ll prosper more and be blessed and get good presents in our stockings!”

This is disillusioned. Again, when Christ came to earth, Israel was a nation full of people following God’s law, both culturally and governmentally. But that didn’t do them any good with their standing with God, and their nation got totally pwnd by the Romans.

“But God’s law is the proper way for a nation to act, and the proper way for humans in general to act!”

Not! The “law of God” is the way for the people of the covenant to conduct themselves, within the Church as a whole, and not anything at all government related. It’s meant for the people of God’s covenant, through Christ, and those people alone. It’s not a good way to make a government (not in this stage of the world). Again, God’s law without God is just as bad as no God’s law with no God.

Government is so simple: an entity meant to keep people from friggin killing each other. But really, think of the three “P’s”: Property, Protection, and Personal Contracts. Yeah, that’s about as far as government goes.

And if you think that Christian morals and Biblical law will help in any of those areas, please see above: it’s not meant for that. I have a good pizza cutter. It’s super awesome for cutting pizzas. But I won’t use it in a basketball game (means it’s great, but not meant for that purpose, in case you didn’t catch it).

Again, again, again: when it comes to moral and ethical reform of a nation, that’s what religion, culture, and art are for. That stuff’s just well beyond the scope of government. Our beliefs, moralities, and religions shouldn’t “influence” our government or whatever else you wanna say. Government is a secular institution, ’nuff said.

Oh wait, or do you think the institution your founder, Christ ,set up (the Church) isn’t good enough for all that social reform without having a little army to back it up, eh? **sigh** how much faith do you really have in your own religion?

Bah, it’s annoying that some people out there can’t seem to just grasp this simple concept.

Anyway, ISO’s done burning, time to get to work.

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