Mark Kreslins
“Thinking Well”
Recently, Bloomberg News featured an opinion piece by Tyler titled America Is Returning to 1781 in which he argued that Covid-19 might possible reshape politics in these United States.
I agree, and it should. I pray at the end of Covid-19, we have broken into numerous regions and Washington D.C. has become just a distant, dark, and disturbing memory.
But this will pose a challenge for the politically active evangelical community who has a vested interest in a “Christian nation” narrative they long ago embraced. Many have traded their way to political office and to considerable wealth on the narrative seemingly able to ignore this Christian “nation” legally murders 1,000,000 babies annually and legally steals around $3 trillion annually via taxation.
Also, as a “nation” that is “one” and “under God” as the Pledge of Allegiance states, evangelicals will no doubt recoil at the possibility of dividing “one nation under God.” It would not surprise me if some may even assert: What therefore God has joined together let no man separate. (Matthew 19:6). Believe me, it would not surprise me.
Christians engaged in politics might, single-handedly, have become the greatest ally to tyranny in these United States than they realize. Having just about totally thrown in with the GOP, never having a GOP candidate they couldn’t express some level of support for, they traded objectivity and intellectual consistency for the crumbs of pseudo-influence. Pause and ask the average politically active Christian for the list of victories they participated in with all their rallies, pleas to their congressman, voter registration drives, etc.
Their typical answer is: “well, at least it’s not as bad as it could have been!” Of course, this reveals the fallacy of relative privation. But politically active Christians seem to be immune to fallacies as long as they advance a Christian America narrative.
Which brings me to secession as a duty or rebellion?
With even the most rudimentary understanding of American history and a basic theological grasp of God in His sovereign and providential will, allowing a form of government on the planet whereby the highest human authority are the PEOPLE, the answer can only obviously, YES, it is our duty as Christians to advance secession. How else can one interpret these words:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Six letters: “P-E-O-P-L-E!” Us, we, God’s creation, those He created. We dissolve political bands that have connected us. We do it. Not a President, a Congress, or a Court. Jefferson makes it even clearer, in case people didn’t understand the first part:
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
“Six letters: “P-E-O-P-L-E!” Us, we, God’s creation, those He created.”
MARK KRESLINS
There’s that word again – PEOPLE. Us, we, God’s creation.
To not embrace the premise of these words is to be willfully ignorant or a totally invested Christian American narrative that believes in nice sounding made-up history. Either way, you are wrong.
You simply cannot say you understand what the War for Independence was all about if you reject secession. In fact, you actually dishonor the blood sacrifice of around 6800 soldiers, 6100 wounded, and 20,000 who were taken prisoner. All of that sacrifice for the words Jefferson penned. You dishonor their sacrifice, their lost sons, women murdered, property destroyed, the stress, turmoil and sacrifice to not support the very tool the founders used to gain freedom from the King – SECESSION.
Typically, Christian nation activists will claim the source of their rejecting secession lay in Romans 13 or 1 Peter 2:18 merely betraying a poor grasp of exegesis and thus a poor application. Sadly, their poor exegesis leads to thousands of Christians sheepishly saying “there’s nothing we can do! We must obey our authorities!”
There is plenty that can be done.
Start by ignoring Christian “leaders” who claim Romans 13 blocks secession. I will post the proper exegesis of this soon, but it’s really not that hard and just betrays that the claimants don’t understand our form of government. Don’t understand how our country was formed and why.
Next, learn what secession actually is. It is the people reasserting their God-given or natural right to free association, self-determination, self-government. For a whole host of reason, some I will never know, God in His providential sovereign desire allowed a form of government to emerge that contained the right of the people to abolish it or throw it off. That is just a historic fact, beyond dispute.
So, to conclude. Secesson – duty or rebellion?
Absolutely a duty! In fact, you may be sinning to not stop this evil form of government. It’s called stewardship. Are we “stewarding” well the blood sacrifice of the founding generation? The obvious answer, with 63,000,000 murdered babies, trillions of dollars stolen, theft of property, and hundreds of evil acts by this government is an unequivocal and undisputed NO!.
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