Friday, March 14, 2008

Christians Believe that their own God is a Harsh Master

This is just an awesome post from Douglas Wilsons Blog and Mablog! This way of thinking can be so hard for us modern evangelicals to see. god help us to see with your eyes. Give us vision,your vision!

Yahweh for Sunshine and Baal for Rain
Topic: Politics

There are really two basic questions when it comes to questions of theocracy. The first is erroneously thought to be a genuine question -- whether or not we should have a theocracy, whether there will be a god who rules over any given culture. The fact that this is even believed to be a coherent question is one of the central confusions of our age. Every society has a god, every society has a highest authority in the lives of those governed. To deny such an authority is not to destroy "theocracy" but rather to destroy society itself. The question is not whether god, but rather which god. Will it be God the Father, Demos, Allah, Mammon, or Hugo Chavez?
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