Last month, I visited a church in the Midwest whose Sunday School viewed a DVD on the bloody anguish that produced a Bible in English. We watched the British government horn in on the work of translating, sanctioning phrases it favored as “official”; we saw Roman Catholic politicians torture and slaughter Protestants, and Protestant politicians torture and slaughter Roman Catholics. No matter which brand of “Christians” represented Leviathan, they ruled in accordance with the Satanic State’s master rather than the Lord they professed. And always will.
When the film concluded and the Sunday School’s leader asked for comments, the usual and predictable ones flooded forth: what a Providential mercy it is that we have a Bible in our language; we can always trust God to guide and protect us; etc. No one spoke another obvious truth, so I did: “This history graphically shows us that the State is utterly opposed to everything Christian, that it murders and tortures and then blasphemes the name of Christ by claiming it does this evil on His behalf. We should be as opposed to the State as it is to us. Yet too many American Christians love government, love politicians and bureaucrats and violence and coercion, despite the State’s murders and lies and thefts. We are called to stand against such wickedness.”
Well. The leader, a devout man who sincerely tries to follow the Lord, immediately gainsaid me. And of the roughly 45 people present, not a single one seemed to disagree with his assessment. “But of course God ordained and established government, blah, blah, blah…As Christians, we honor the government and pray for it and submit ourselves to it, blah, blah, blah…”
Not so fast, buddy. Unfortunately, class was over with the worship service about to begin, so I couldn’t address his fallacies that morning. But I do in this week’s conversation on anarcho-capitalism over at Lela Markham’s blog. Please join us, and then forward the link to your Christian friends who mistake government for God.
9:28 am on February 18, 2015
