I am reading one of my hero books Ethics. Great read if you ever get the chance to read it along with his other books. His books gets you to think about the world the Holy Bible with new eyes. I ran onto a comparison he made between the French Revolution and the American Revolution and I think it is dead on to the reality.
"The American Revolution was almost contemporaneous with the French one, and politically the two were not unconnected; yet they were profoundly different in character. The American democracy is not founded upon the emancipated man bit. quite the contrary, upon the kingdom of God and the limitation of earthly powers by the sovereignty of God. It is indeed significant when, in contrast to the Declaration of the Rights of Man, American historians can say that the federal constitution was written by men who were conscious of original sin and of the wickedness of the human heart. Earthly wielders of power, and also the people, are directed into their proper bounds, in due consideration of man's innate longing for power and...that Power pertains only to God." Dietrich Bonhoeffer Ethics
We have four political movements. One where people think government knows best. That it can even replace God. You got the center people who wants some freedom and you got another movement that sees things like above. Then you just got one that just goes with the flow.
One is in the wrong. No matter what their intentions are man and woman cannot not rule fairly over other men and women. That is why every time you see Marxist countries fail because they do not let lose freedom to anything. Also most Marxist countries would turn on the church of God. No matter if it is Christians or Jews we become the hunted for we followers of God are the enemy of the State because we provide the idea of freedom from fear of bad times. They hate the idea of Jesus because he frees men.
The middle ground is safe for a time until the total government people which is a sickness on both sides decides to take even them out for they will not choose a side and have their side chosen for them and the people who do not choose to stand for either will some time have to choose.
The last understands that man cannot fairly rule and therefore government needs to be small and not intrusive to people just trying to live their lives. Think only God can rule fairly and justly. Government should not take the place of God. Their only job is to carry the sword and keep the peace in the land. That is what this passage says to me what do you guys think?
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