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Category Archives: Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God
Interesting Comment
I came across a comment on Facebook that got me thinking. It’s from an anarchocapitalist:
The idea is not to dismantle the U.S. government. The idea is to teach people a system of morality that is universal; that “don’t steal” and “don’t kill” applies to everybody. Once people everywhere, all over the world, understand this basic concept and would cringe at the idea of ruling, taxation and war then all governments will dissolve on their own. Spreading anarchism is a bottom up approach not a top down one.
The part where he says, “The idea is to teach people a system of morality that is universal; that “don’t Steal” and “don’t kill” applies to everybody.” caught me. That is a very good summation of the Great Commission.
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18-20).
Jesus said to teach the nations to observe all that He has commanded. The anarchist says we need to teach people universal morality, and even mentions two of the Ten Commandments. I don’t know if he’s a Christian or not, but universal morality can only come from the God of the Bible.
The job of Christians is to teach the nations all the He’s commanded, but we have done such a terrible job of that. Our problem seems to be four fold:
- Christians seem to root for the Republican regardless of how far from the Bible he is.
- The commands of Christ are equally applicable to individuals as to the government, but rather than apply biblical morality to government, we twist Romans 13 to teach that we should obey whatever evil command government comes up with. Government becomes the law giver, and we end up with no king but Caesar.
- Pastors warp Romans 13 to teach that we should obey government almost no matter what, when in reality, Romans 13 is dynamite laid at the foundation of tyrannical government.
- The antinomian bias of American Christianity means many of us don’t even know what right and wrong is. How can the world know what universal morality Christ has commanded if Christians don’t even know? It’s our job to teach it, but we have to know it before we can teach it.
This reminds me of what Bojidar Marinov said. He’s speaking specifically of police, but it applies to all areas of tyrannical government:
“Every single positive change in history starts with change in our hearts, and change in the pulpit. Which means, concerning the standing occupying army of police, we need to first change our hearts and trust God that maintaining a social order is not the same as having a standing army for terrorizing the population. Then we need to purge the pulpits of any preacher who supports the existence of police, or the existence of any other tyranny. At the very least, do not support with your money pulpits which support tyranny.”
I’m ashamed to say it, but I believe Christians are to blame for the tyranny we are suffering under, because we are no longer preaching biblical morality. We need to do better.
Exposing More Schizophrenia
Larken Rose knocks it out of the park with this one.
If you ask your average flag-waving, patriotic Murican when it’s okay to forcibly resist the thugs in blue (a.k.a. “law enforcement”), they will often have tantrums at you, accusing you of being a communist, or a terrorist, or unAmerican. (That last one is especially funny since they also celebrate July 4th, which honors a bunch of lawless criminals telling the “law enforcers” of their day to get lost or get shot.)
However, if you ask those SAME flag-waving, patriotic Muricans if they approved of the subjects of various tyrannical regimes forcibly resisting their oppressors–such as those who suffered in communist China, or under Stalin’s Russia or Hitler’s Germany, and so on–they will vehemently cheer the idea of armed rebels forcibly battling tyranny.
And if you break it down to specifics, their hypocrisy gets even more obvious. Do they think the people of Germany had the right to disobey, even resist, when the Nazi SS would stop people at random, demanding to see their “papers”? Of course they had that right (proclaims the nationalistic Murican)! How about when U.S. police do the “stop and frisk” routine, or stop all cars driving down a road for a “border checkpoint” that isn’t at the border, or for a “regulation checkpoint” to ask to see people’s… well… papers? Do Americans have the right to disobey, even resist? Of course not (most flag-waving Muricans will say)! Only a despicable criminal would refuse to cooperate with “the law”!
The moral of the story is that a lot Americans claim to love freedom, while also proclaiming that Americans should passively tolerate MORE injustice and oppression than the people of Germany should have tolerated under Nazi rule. And that should tell you something about how unobjective nationalism and patriotism makes people.
Let’s Worry About Something That Matters
People are so worried about who the president is going to be. I couldn’t care less. Whether it’s Trump or Hillary, it doesn’t matter, both of them will have to be opposed every step of the way.
What I would like people to care about, and invest their energy into is making the president irrelevant. If the president says boys can use the girls’ bathroom, the only thing a Christian should worry about is how to resist the stupidity of that. Many conservative, Christian people in this very town think that when the president says boys can use the girls’ bathroom, that boys can actually use the girls’ bathroom. How foolish!
We need to convince our neighbors that we don’t have to obey everything the president says. We need to convince the person down the pew from us that Romans 13 doesn’t teach strict obedience even to the point that anyone can use whatever bathroom they feel like. If there was ever something more preposterous I can’t think of what it would be.
Make America Defiant Again
Ten Difficult Truths
You probably won’t hear this from many pulpits, but the Bible teaches these truths. If you want to learn more, I can help point you in the right direction. These have not been easy pills for me to swallow, and I suspect they won’t be easy for most others, but Christians are to be truth seekers and tellers, regardless of the consequences.
- The U.S. government at every level is antichrist. It is your enemy.
- The U.S. dollar system/federal reserve is sinful.
- Public school is a sin. Sending your kids there is a sin.
- The American law enforcement system is sinful and needs to be abolished.
- Drugs aren’t illegal under God’s law, and only tyrants are in favor of them being illegal under man’s law.
- Taxation is theft, voting for a tax increase is a sin.
- To have government agents controling the border is sinful.
- Requiring driver’s licences, building permits, liquor licences, business licences and on and on is a sin.
- Prison/jail is an unjust, wicked punishment.
- The U.S. has fought many unjust wars, and having a standing army is a judgment from God.
I’m not offering my opinion. These items are biblical truths. You are sinning if you send your kids to public school, are in favor of closed borders, support police, are in favor of keeping drugs illegal, vote for tax increases, etc.
These are controversial topics, but like I said, I’d be happy to explain why these items are true from the Bible.
And The America Worship Continues
Christians, please stop worshiping America long enough to think rationally. The stuff you say about the troops and your love for this country just shows that you have no connection to reality.
While the Christians and conservatives keep coming out with America idolatry memes, the other side is making memes too.
I found these three that I like.
Exposing Idolatry
I’ve posted this in several different places on Facebook:
How evil does this country have to become before Christians stop standing for the national anthem? Apparently 60 million dead babies isn’t enough. Transgender bathrooms, obamacare and legalized gay marriage aren’t enough. Maybe Kaepernick is onto something. Maybe we should all repent of our American pride and stop standing for the national anthem as long as it’s legal to murder babies.
Here are a few places I’ve posted it:
- The Facebook page “Stand With Judge Moore”. I certainly stand with Judge Moore, and the common sense he’s shown. I can’t vouch for everything about him, and I hope he’s not the one running the FB page, because I’ve been blocked for posting that. There was no explanation or counter-arguments offered–just an unceremonious blocking.
- An older lady friend of my wife who has been going crazy posting America memes. I posted the above as a comment on one of them. She gave it a thumbs-up and kept right on serial posting America-worship memes.
- A friend of mine who posted a meme saying Kaepernick needs to stand for the national anthem because men have died fighting for our country. He didn’t respond, but deleted the entire post.
- The Facebook page “Cold Dead Hands”. You would think that a pro 2nd Amendment page wouldn’t be so statist, but it is extremely statist. They get hundreds of comments on their posts and I’ve posted this as comments to their post and replies to other comments probably 10 times. No one has responded even once, except an atheist who wanted to debate abortion.
The fact that no one will even respond to my argument shows it is a good argument, and Christians feel guilty about their idolatry of America. They just don’t feel guilty enough to stop.
Eric Bolling Has Drunk the Kool-Aid
I guess people’s perspective on the level of oppression is relative. Some people apparently think that if you’re rich, you can’t be oppressed. Were the Israelite slaves oppressed in Egypt? They had leeks and onions back in Egypt (Numbers 11:5). Maybe some people can be bought off.
If you’re a government farming the people, and you want to maximize your income, you shouldn’t tax them at 100%. Communist regimes fail. So, maybe they’ve figured out that current tax rates are near optimal, where people remain happy and comfortable, and the government still makes a lot of money. I don’t know.
All I know is there is an absolute standard in God’s law, and the U.S. government violates that standard. It doesn’t matter whether we’re better off than others. It only matters that they are violating God’s law, and we need to stand against them.
What Rights Are They Dying For?
A common refrain among conservatives is that the soldiers have died for our rights. One way of looking at that is to scoff, because our rights have only eroded over the last 100 years or more. But there is another way to look at it. While so many rights have been lost, we have earned a lot of new rights even just recently.
Here are a few of our recently-earned rights:
1. The right to self-determine your sex and use the bathroom and lockerroom of your choice.
2. The right to marry someone of your own sex.
3. The right to free or reduced-cost health insurance if you qualify.
Here are a few rights that are not-so-recent, but are still innovations of American freedom and/or the Communist Manifesto.
1. The right of a woman to tear her unborn baby limb from limb.
2. The right to retire on Social Security.
3. The right to send your kid to a government school paid for by your neighbors.
None of those were rights when the Revolutionary War was won. None of those missing rights were listed as grievances in the Declaration of Independence.
So, dear conservative, if you want to say the soldiers have died for our rights, are you sure it’s not a sin to serve in the U.S. military? Is it possible for a soldier fighting in Iraq to choose to fight for freedom of speech (as an example), but not for the right to abortion? Are you sure they’re fighting on the right side?
When the regular people of Germany sent their young men off to fight in World War II, were they intending to do evil? Did they realize that they were evil, and they were on the wrong side and trying to ruin the world? Of course, not. They were regular people trying to do the right thing. They thought they were doing good, or at least that serving their country was a good thing. Maybe they just weren’t thinking very much. They sure weren’t thinking biblically.
Are you thinking very much? Is America really the good guys? How many babies have to be murdered before you consider the possibility that this isn’t a morally good country? Are we fighting just wars? Are we protecting innocent lives?
I believe it’s possible to live a Christian life in this country while the country goes off the moral deep end, but part of living that Christian life requires not working a government job (at any level, unless your purpose is to sabotage it), not serving in the military, not standing for the national anthem, and not pledging allegiance to the flag. We all question the wisdom and morality of those who supported the Third Reich. Don’t fall into the same trap as them.
There is much good about America, but singing the praises of this country isn’t fighting evil. What will help is recognizing the evil and fighting it.
