Postby dolfan » January 7th, 2010, 4:42 am
MacUser,
If you had to choose between poisons, would you take the big government poison that Republicans give us now, or would you take the poison of dumb people being free to do horrible things to themselves that a Libertarian government would bring? I humbly submit to you that the latter is far preferable to the former, and that it is better to see ruin against a backdrop of freedom than it is to see freedom ruined against a backdrop of "government protection". I'd take the second poison because while sin makes sick, liberty gives the greater room for people of faith to do what we're called to do. The cure is within better reach, IMO.
I do understand your point and it well taken with me, but boy if I could make that trade today with you, I'd yank your arm out of socket to get it done.
Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven. (David Lipscomb, On Civil Government, 72).