I love the church. I want her pastors to minister to the spiritual needs of God's people. I want her pastors to faithfully preach the Word of God and administer the Sacraments. I want the church courts to focus on all things spiritual, maintaining the word, sacraments, and discipline.
I love my country I want the magistrates to promote good and punish evil. And because religion is essential to the common good, I want the magistrates as magistrates to promote true religion and protect the churches of our common Lord. I want Christians-particularly orthodox Protestants-to serve in political office and maintain piety.
This is not some kind of innovative position. And, no, by holding to it, you are not somehow corrupting the gospel.
Thomas footnote: T. Aquinas, Summa Theologica:
[F]oreigners “were not at once admitted to citizenship” because “if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people.”
When I reflect on my own familial religious background, it’s clear that cultural Christianity and nominal Christianity are far better than the alternatives of secularism and non-Christian religions.
Eastern Orthodoxy protected my ancestors from Islam, making for a much easier conversion to Reformed Protestantism—which is what happened to me, as well as my wife’s grandfather in the Middle East.
“The real object of the [first] amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to an hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.” -Joseph Story
@StanChristi1986@contramordor@ryanburge There’s plenty of documented evidence from the founders themselves explaining what they meant in the constitution. Your interpretation is novel and requires defense, not mine.
The name Saxon is literally sax- or seax-man.
Every Saxon carried a short sword.
Every true patriot chud I know carries a sidearm everywhere he goes.
This is in the blood.
This is why we have a Second Amendment.
An armed man is a free man.
Happy Fourth of July, Anglo-Saxon.
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Every day I'm asked, "why don't you go on Tucker's show?"
Others tell me they've bombarded Tucker with requests to have me on.
For the record, I'd be delighted to speak with Tucker - and think we'd have a very fruitful discussion.
But it's for him to invite me.
If you want to know what @ZacharyGarris is about then listen to his excellent speech on American Presbyterian Archibald Alexander.
His speech is largely taken from a chapter in our forthcoming book.
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