Below is a post from a Christian on Facebook. I have responded to one of his post’s in the past.

This guy is essentially presenting an argument that goes like this:
1. Traffic stops are dangerous.
2. Therefore cops are entitled to treat everyone as dangerous during a traffic stop.

I deny that traffic stops are that dangerous. People are occasionally shot whether they’re cops or not. Stringing together a video of violent traffic stops and posting it on Youtube isn’t statistical evidence, though it can be persuasive. Police don’t have a dangerous job. They ranked as the fifteenth most dangerous job in 2013 between grounds maintenance workers and painters. I’ve never seen a memorial to fallen grounds crew members, but clearly, there ought to be one.

Obviously, if traffic stops aren’t that dangerous, the conclusion of his argument doesn’t work either. But, even if I were to concede that his first point is correct, the second point doesn’t necessarily follow. Maybe there are better solutions to dangerous traffic stops.

The manufacturer of my car has determined the best type of oil for the engine, and specified that in the owner’s manual. If I put in something other than what they’ve specified, I’m risking suboptimal performance, or even ruining the engine. If I put in water, I don’t know how far I’d make it down the road, but not very far.

God knows human beings even better than my manufacturer knows my engine. God defines right and wrong, just and unjust. The existence of police (at least in their current form) is illegal under God’s law. They are tantamount to putting water in an engine instead of oil. Who knows what all the bad effects will be, but cops being shot during traffic stops isn’t the only one.

But rather than my Christian friend calling for the biblical solution, he’s saying that we need to put more water in the engine–saying cops need to be tougher and more suspicious of everyone.

I don’t know this guy too well, but from what I know he is a nice guy, and a devoted Christian. But, the pulpits have failed miserably in that Christians can go on thinking like this. Who defines good and evil? Here’s a news flash: Ruth Bader Ginsburg does not define good and evil. I think American Christians are having a terrible confusion about what is good and what is evil.