The Bible applies to every area of life, though you wouldn’t know it if your only source of information is modern American Christianity. Someone asked Bojidar Marinov if there is a systematic theology book that discusses economics. Below is his answer.
Any area of practical study and application is deadly to anti-Theonomists, for it exposes their nakedness. If they want to be Biblical, they are forced to go to the Law of God, which makes them an easy target for Theonomists who point to their inconsistency. If they want to be faithful to their anti-Theonomic position, they have to rely on humanistic theories which can be easily exposed as anti-Biblical. If you go back and read Joel’s and mine articles against the Two Kingdoms rhetoric, you will see that most of the time all we need to do is wait for these guys to talk on some practical issue – economics, politics, law, etc. – and show how they go against their own theology.
Therefore, the safest bet for all these seminary rats is to exclude such issues from their systematic theologies in order to avoid exposing themselves as inconsistent and as theological hypocrites. Keep only obscure hyper-spiritualized irrelevant topics under the title of “theology,” and relegate life and action and practical thought to the realm of “natural law” and common grace.
I’m a little bit discouraged today to see my Christian friends post this David Clarke garbage as if this pagan, power-religion cult of law enforcement is in any way righteous.
Kasich is an idiot and I wouldn’t vote for him (So are Trump and Cruz).
Kasich harmed no one by not moving over.
The law that states you have to move over is an unjust law.
Christians bow down and worship at the feet of government.
Christians don’t understand the Bible and say you have to explicitly obey the law.
This cop really is an idiot for using threats of force to enforce unjust laws.
I have another guy that goes to my church who is willing to tell my wife to move out of the country because she opposes Trump. I have my pastor who never moves away from Christianity 101–never moves from milk to solid food. And unfortunately he’s probably the best pastor in town.
Christians don’t know right from wrong. They barely know their right hand from their left hand. What would you expect our culture to be coming to when the Christians don’t even know right from wrong? We need pastors who are half way decent to teach people before this culture is going anywhere.
Larken Rose posed this question, and I think it’s a good way to look at it.
Pick one:
1) Left jackboot on your throat.
2) Right jackboot on your throat.
3) No jackboot on your throat.
Here are typical responses you might hear from statists:
“But if we remove the jackboot on my throat, what will we replace it with?”
“It’s utopian to suggest that no jackboot should be on my throat!”
“If you don’t choose the left or right jackboot, you can’t complain!”
“The jackboot on my throat is for my benefit, and works for me!”
“Being allowed to choose a jackboot means that I’m free!”
“I am the jackboot!”
There is a righteous law, and the law of our government is far from it.The yoke of Christ is easy and His burden is light. There is no jackboot with Christ.
The only authority our government has comes from their willingness to use force. They reject the only other possible and valid source of authority–Jesus Christ.
The quote blow is from Larken Rose, an anarcho-capitalist. I agree with a lot of what anarcho-capitalists say, and I thought this was thought-provoking.
Gang rape is democracy in action.
The entire premise behind democracy is the notion that the majority has the right to force its will on the minority, and that as long as people are allowed to vote on what happens, and as long as the majority gets its way, then whatever happens is “legal,” legitimate and civilized. And that’s just bullshit.
If you want to be morally and philosophically consistent, you can’t praise “democracy” while condemning gang rape. If, however, you believe that every individual owns himself, and that aggression is wrong regardless of majority opinion, elections and “legislation,” then you can, and should, condemn both gang rape and democracy. In other words, be a voluntaryist. If you still feel inclined to vote, here’s a “vote” that actually matters–pick one:
1) “I believe that evil becomes good when the majority wants it.”
2) “I believe that majority-supported evil is still evil.”
Every conversation is a theological conversation. Every idea is a religious idea.
Bojidar Marinov says:
In law-enforcement schools, they teach them that everyone is their enemy, whether violent or non-violent. The techniques of subduing are such as to always produce such excruciating pain that the victim instinctively resists the pain, and thus give them the cops the excuse of “resisting arrest.” Police culture is a barbaric, pagan culture; it is entirely based on worship of power and pleasure in inflicting pain. It is really the culture of the Beast, for it produces beastliness in the cops that could be rivaled only by the beastliness of the Roman emperors. Police brutality is not an isolated occurrence, it is a self-conscious religious statement, an expression of modern paganism.
Politics isn’t the solution to our problem. This quote I found sums up my thoughts on the presidential election:
I’m not a Trump guy. I want to watch the whole immoral and idolatrous thing to burn to the ground. My vote is for a tub of popcorn and my couch, as I watch God’s righteous wrath fall on a rebellious and God-hating land.
The federal, state and local governments are antichrist. They deny Him in thought, word and deed. There is no longer any use for any of it, but the federal government is particularly evil. There are no good candidates, and the only possible solution is secession.
I stopped pledging allegiance to this evil country. The words in the pledge aren’t even true. There is no justice for all when we’ve murdered 55 million babies.
I’m opposed to investing one more minute of my life worried about who the president is. Our time should be spent in evangelism, teaching the Word of God, and working locally to resist federal and state tyranny.
When you criticize the police, and especially when you have a great argument, a true sign that someone is a cop worshiper is when they retort, “Well, I hope you never need to call the police again. If there aren’t any cops, you should just call a crackhead.”
Here’s a great response to that from a random dude on Facebook. “The crackhead has this going for him: He has a better knowledge and network on the streets, and will be fairly prosecuted for all violent crimes against you.”
The notion that cops protect our rights is preposterous. Their job is to get people to talk to them (get them to voluntarily surrender their 5th Amendment right) without asking for an attorney (get them to voluntarily surrender their 6th Amendment right), and let them search their property without a warrant (get them to voluntarily surrender their 4th Amendment right). Lying is an acceptable way for them to get people to surrender their rights.
The police collect taxes (steal from people) to protect people from thieves. They attack people to collect taxes, fines and enforce unjust laws. Yet their PR message is that they protect our rights. I’ve had way more money stolen from me by cops on behalf of cities, counties, states and federal governments than all the thieves put together. They’re not protecting anyone’s rights but their own.
These cops have no basis in rationality or humility. They are thugs with guns who do what they want. Just imagine how much of these people’s time this is going to waste.
Do you know what’s worse than the cops? When these guys have clearly taken pains to obey the law, and cop-worshiping observers come along and say they need to obey the cops. They’re already obeying the law–it’s the cops who need to obey the law.
