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King George III was anything but "benevolent," and precisely because he was NOT IN SUBMISSION TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

So, the colonists' rebellion was thoroughly justified? It seems to me, your second treatise railed against the colonists and their "Revolution" against the monarchy.

If not you, then I've read that from your fellow throne-sniffers, who think any rebellion against a king violates some kind of dictum from Jesus.

"So, the colonists' rebellion was thoroughly justified? It seems to me, your second treatise railed against the colonists and their "Revolution" against the monarchy."

The point of whether the "American" revolution was "justified" is a side issue, for reason only that, in the main, the colonialists were Protestant, and thus inebriated with their own inflated sense of self-worth, which is typical to Protestants by political temper, and reinforced through their materialistic and situational-ethic minded theology.

The central theme of my "treatise" is that throughout history man has endeavored to, ever so shrewdly, build himself up--to lord it over God: by his intellectual, self-centered pompous arrogance; and always under the pretext of "enlightenment." Hence: the "Rights" of the individual increasingly undermine, dominate, and finally dispose with, the Rights of God. Protestants have a keenly honed skill for applying this tactic by their ingenious method of rationalization.

The irony is that, for all their juridical cunning, the Protestants' "bulwark" of republican government begot only the inevitable downward slide into the muck, as Man increasingly unbridles his insatiable desire for rebllion against God. So, therefore in the end, Man is not uplifted by the "blessings" of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity; but rather, Man is further debased into his self-indulgent deception of individual freedom--a misery that he has so shrewdly created for the stated purpose of increasing Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. We forge heavy chains, for ourselves and our posterity, in the name of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.

"If not you, then I've read that from your fellow throne-sniffers, who think any rebellion against a king violates some kind of dictum from Jesus."

Uncomfortable and unbearable although a monarch may be at divers times throughout history, the fact remains that such leaders hold power only at God's pleasure--not by the edicts of "the people." That arrangement may "suck" eggs for the pride of men, but that is the way scripture judges the issue--NOT I."