“A government doesn’t get Hydra headed without someone wanting all those heads.”
That’s true, and it’s wrong of me to say that our government is evil, because government is a thing, and evil is not a characteristic of things. It’s a characteristic of people.
The think that the centralized power structure of the federal government has drawn, like an electromagnet, some of the most evil, Godless people on the face of this earth.
Even though I am not big on religion, I do believe that the further from God one gets, the worse one gets in terms of doing bad things. At least, that is how it was in my own life for a good while.
The people in government are so far away from God that they believe that they are god.
I truly fear them. They do not believe in an afterlife. They believe that they have to create paradise here. They would stop at nothing to create Utopia, and Utopia is just a synonym for Hell.
We’re looking at a peculiarly post-Christian (or lapsed from Christian) error. The power of Christian thought gave us the idea of rights — things that we are right to do and claim in God’s name. Where do rights go to die when what animated them dies? It turns out they don’t die; they look for a new deity to animate them. Oh goody, the state! Hello hydra heads.