Only the Law of God Which Places Limits on the Civil Magistrate...

Tonight I read from “The Second Mayflower” pg257…”It is only the law of God which places limits on the civil magistrate that maximizes liberty, while preventing the abuses of anarchy and tyranny. It was only when the Church refused to preach the law of God and limit the civil magistrate to the powers enumerated in the Word of God that civil governments in all western, post-modern Christian countries assembled their modern tyrannies.”

If you too are still sorting out how we should stand as Christians in our day as concerns the pot of politics were all sitting in, this column from Wilson and reading the comments afterwards with its give and take, may help.

From Douglas Wilsons Blog called Patriotism and Pom, Poms

Two excerpts’….

….But the question is not whether it is possible for loyalty to your culture and nation to be idolatrous (of course it is), but rather whether use of the right/left distinction is inherently idolatrous….”

…All of us must develop and display hierarchical loyalties, with loyalty to Christ and the Church being always at the top. But we must lean against making the Church into a deracinated third way, a kind of floaty thing above the societies of men. The Church in incarnated in local churches, and all the people who come to church do so speaking a particular language, representing particular cultures and ethnicities, having sons who fought in particular wars, and so on. The Church as genuine third way presents an alternative structuring of loyalties, but does not usually present us with an absolute choice between loyalties….