I don’t mean to butt in, but that’s an interesting approach, and it’s not terribly different from my own in some ways, though I might reach some different conclusions. A question: what do you see as the state’s role as it relates to your belief in God? The reason I ask is that I see the growth of the state happening at the same time as the degradation of our culture, and I can’t help but think the two are related. As we drift from God as a society, does government fill the void, or did government growth have a role in causing the drift in the first place? Probably too late at night to be pondering such.
don’t mind at all. politics is so hard, but the founders were good teachers.
yes, of course, i agree that the two are related based on my (perhaps oversimplified) view. you see the evidence before us. the mechanisms (causation outside of the first cause: abandonment of God) are pretty murky.
but it’s clear to me that our system of government was engineered/designed up as a system of checks and balances with all parties having the moral fortitude to play *only* their roles. when more than one branch immorally starts to conspire with another, which many of the founders knew had to happen eventually, the experiment would have to fail. franklin and others predicted it.
thus what do we as Christians do given this apparent inevitablity. what action would God want us to take now that we are here at the end of the line. that’s the question i now struggle with.