The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Moral Law

Tyranny takes various forms - religious, ideological, cultural, etc., but the common denominator is the human heart. Government should be small (and by extension transparent) and force should only be applied when one’s livelihood is threatened. So the idea behind Dont Tread On Me is that government serves the citizen in the prevention of crimes against the person, their property and their ability to live and worship freely. A government that seeks to create and grant unnatural rights attempts to alter reality and enact social experiment / radical societal transformation on behalf of dark and corrupt powers at the behest of unregenerate men. That’s why government should be small, less it engages in greater, corrupt, unnecessary and sinister activity to the detriment of the citizenry.

Christinizing government is an oxymoron. Government is a “necessary evil” at its best. Who are these regenerate men who will establish a truly Christian (even Reformed-Calvinist) form of government and freely God honoring society? Sounds like a recipe for disaster, the mere suggestion of such a thing. There’s a reason why Martin Luther would shudder at the ideas and actual attempts to organize a type of heaven on earth by the men who sought further reforms in his day - it would typically turn ugly and violent (ultimately, an unnecessary quest for power and authority by high-minded, self-serving zealots).