You start with limited government. The rest is up to freedom loving citizens to exercise their God-given freedoms.
Big-government Christianity will fail, as it should.
Christianity does not follow big government. It follows the teaching and eternity given to gentiles. The bastardization of the Church does not remove ones responsibility to the guidance and teaching from the Lord.
Nobody’s talking about big government Christianity. They are talking about the bottom-up restoration of morality.
Exactly.
There are plenty of professing Christians (of all spiritually immature stripes) who would like nothing better than to be able to use the arm of government to impose their personal religious conscience on others.... "for their own good", of course. (See my previous post quoting C.S. Lewis, who understood that mentality perfectly.)
They are merely the flip-side of the extremist left coin. bttt
-and maybe practice their religion in public discourse?
The Founders had it right -limited government under God
One can not separate the two. Government is illegitimate without the underlying and foundational premise of unalienable rights endowed the people by the Creator -THIS, regardless the size of government. It is this notion that secured legitimate our revolt from the big government tyranny of the King. We did not found the country upon small government or for small government. The only reason to limit government is to limit the power of those who would usurp our unalienable rights -a check upon man against what God endowed...
I do not see an either or choice here -this IS fundamental -Freedom 101...
Big-government Christianity will fail, as it should.
Here you conflate the two -government and Christianity -why? Why not big government "homosexual marriage" -THAT is the issue...
Big government bad -big government perverting Christianity worse... Legitimate Christianity is quite good and as the founders did attest -a sound basis for not only legitimate change; e.g. revolution; but as well, legitimate government...
One can either support or not support homosexual marriage -that is their choice. Suggesting that Christians irrelevant -that they should shut up and or sit down on this issue as far as their perspective and political discourse -hmmm... -what is that all about?