Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris
In the first segment of this series, I try to disentangle some of the problems with the word theocracy, which is often understood by both hypocritical statist “Christians” and “atheists” to be a statist idea. I try to show how all social systems are necessarily theocratic despite the belief by “atheists” that it can be escaped and that statism is somehow “non-theocratic” when it is better understood as a false theocracy and false religion. And I begin to present the actual Christian “political” order as an anarchist one where Jesus Christ is our only King and where God’s Kingdom-order is built outside and apart from human civil government and its worldly, authoritarian nature.
Since all social systems are necessarily “theocratic” or “religious,” in the second article I show how everyone who buys into the statist philosophy of the world and supports the existence of human civil government is, therefore, buying into a false religion and betraying the Lord as their God and King. There is ultimately no such thing as a “secular State” or a “Christian State,” which is the false dichotomy that so-called “Christian Nationalists” buy into when they make it their objective to “Christianize” the State and tell us we can either have “secular human civil government” or “Christian human civil government.” Rather, all forms of human civil government are an abandonment of God’s Kingdom and an embrace of a false religion, whether ostensibly “Christian” or not. This means that both “Christian statists” and the “atheists” who tell them to “keep your religion out of our government” are actually buying into another religion in statism itself and sharing a false god with one another.
Since there really is no escaping theocracy, religion, gods, etc., in this article I try to make it clear that an authentic political theology is Christian Anarchism, that a genuine Christian society is an anarcho–theocracy where God is the sole archist (ruler) in a society of free souls under His Kingship. There can be no excuse among the Christian to have other gods than the Lord or to serve two masters. All Christians must be anarchists, and anyone who is not an anarchist is not a Christian, but a statist who has bought into another false religion than the pure religion of private and voluntary service to one another. Furthermore, I say how there is really no such thing as “secular anarchism” anymore than there is such thing as “Christian statism.” All those who won’t be ruled by God will be ruled by men, and all those who seek to be ruled by men openly reject the rulership of Jesus Christ as their King.
After making the case that all social systems are necessarily theocratic in nature, here I attempt to present a better understanding of the true political spectrum with this in mind, which ranges from anarcho-theocratic society on one end, where men are ruled by God alone, to a statist-theocracy on the other end, where men are ruled by false gods under the false religion of statism. Although I have argued that a true understanding of theocracy is to be ruled by God in a necessarily anarchistic society, we might still grant that statism is a false theocracy, lest we allow the statists to claim they are escaping all religion and gods with their political systems, which is needed both to show “statist Christians” they are false converts and “statist atheists” that they are not atheists.
Though we have argued that all social systems are necessarily “theocratic” in some sense of the term, it makes all the difference in the world in which theocracy men choose: whether the rule by God or the rule by false gods, whether anarcho-theocracy or the false statist theocracy of human rule. As much as it is legitimate to call all social systems “theocratic,” it is not valid to say that they are all tyrannical. It is precisely the case that society-wide injustices and evils are the result of rejecting anarcho-theocracy—the rule by God in a society without authoritarian human rulers—for a statist “theocracy” where men exercise authority over other men.
In this final article, I make it clear that we have gone into bondage today for our sins, for our idolatry for man’s kingdoms, and for rejecting the Kingdom of God, which should be understood as a rejection of anarcho-theocracy for the rule by man-gods instead. Though “atheists” would try and blame the problems of our society on “Christians,” even though most of these professing “Christians” seek the same worldly kingdoms as them, the real explanation for all our problems is that people have refused to be ruled by God in a decentralized, anarcho-theocratic society when God alone is our King and the people provide for their welfare and protection in a voluntary network of aid to one another, without tax-based plunder systems.
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