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To: discostu

Alright, it now seems more likely that I misunderstood your position. (I point you to the scene in the movie Gladiator when Maximus on the battlefield almost kills a man he thought was an enemy.)

If you’re honestly telling me that worldly power is not trustworthy, then I must agree with you.

An agent of the government has access to two kinds of power: righteousness and unrighteousness.

The “back the blue” movement presumes to trust and revere the righteousness.

But yes, to revere what is unrighteous is foolish.

It’s a matter of identification.


172 posted on 02/20/2022 9:25:56 AM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the cosmological implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith

No, an agent of the government has access to one kind of power: the government that he is an agent of.

Now maybe his government is righteous. And maybe for him to enforce are righteous. And maybe he is righteous and enforces his orders in a righteous way.

But maybe one of those things isn’t true. And once one of them isn’t true. None of them are true. And revering the police is giving up your reason. It is forgetting that this force MUST be watched, and is dangerous and should NEVER be blindly trusted.


173 posted on 02/20/2022 9:30:23 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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