One of Herod’s men
Which scares you more–the coronavirus itself, or the government’s response to it? In California they arrested a surfer who was alone on the water, hundreds of feet away from the nearest person, for violating “social distancing” commands. A government that does such things is not in its right mind. And some of us are growing fearful of people who obey crazy orders.
In 2002, eighteen years ago, Timothy Terrell penned this essay for Chalcedon:
https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/legitimacy-and-intimidation
In “Legitimacy and Intimidation,” Terrell wrote that “criminal behavior is a declaration of the autonomy of the individual and a rejection of God’s authority over human beings.” As submission to God’s laws goes out the window, a vicious circle comes in: the criminals get wilder and more violent, and the police rely more and more on massive force as a tool of intimidation. So you get the SWAT team smashing down your door at 4 a.m. because you jaywalked.
We worry that the curbs put on our freedom during the current crisis are going to prove too tasty to the government to give up when the crisis passes. “Hey! This is fun, ordering people’s behavior!” We also suspect that Democrats and their lapdogs in the nooze media are purposely trying to stretch out the crisis and scare us all silly in hopes of stampeding us into voting some Democrat psycho into the White House in November. Who honestly doubts they are capable of it?
Pray the Lord will exert His strength on us and bring us back to our senses, back to sanity: back to Him.
If we can learn important lessons from this crisis, we can come out of it a stronger country than we were going in.
If Hillary were President she would have called martial law, spent multi-trillions on social programs that grow the federal gov’t, and added more justices to the Supreme Court to make sure America transformed into Europe.
God forbid.
It is frightening. I pray that we retain our freedom.
That’s what the Second Amendment is for.
That’s why the Founders put it in place.
let’s pray as the Bible warriors prayed: God please let my enemies fall into the very traps they have laid for me. Overcome my enemies in Jesus’ name.