I had a conversation with a Christian friend, and I said our government is corrupt. He told me he’s not willing to write off our government yet.

So the question is: how corrupt is our government, and at what point do we write it off?

I will answer the question, with a question: How bad does it have to get before you’re willing to write it off?

Maybe if they stole money from people who haven’t been shown to be guilty of anything? Maybe like civil forfeiture, where police have been known to take cash from innocent travelers?

Maybe if they destroyed private property rights? Like banning smoking on private property, or eminent domain abuse?

Maybe if they set up Nazi-style checkpoints and stopped travelers on the highway impeding their free travel?

Maybe if they bomb a hospital?

Maybe if they fought never-ending unjust wars?

Maybe if they stole money from every property owner in the country to educate other people’s children in government curriculum?

Maybe if five unelected lawyers in Washington D.C. dictated to the entire country that homosexuals can get “married”?

Maybe if there was a standing army in every American city that the British would have killed for in 1776?

Maybe if they allow 55 million babies to be murdered in their mother’s womb?

We live under a wicked government. There is no doubt of that. Could it get worse? Of course, it can. It’s not the worst government in the world. But Christians are only adding to its decay when they quote Romans 13 and falsely say that passage demands obedience to even a bad government.

My solution is a peaceful solution–the solution being advocated on this website–if the government tells you to do something preposterous or immoral, don’t do it. Do the right thing. It seems so obvious to me, but Christians are just too busy twisting Romans 13 to do the right thing.