When men believe that human governments are needed for protection from enemies, rather than trusting in God as their Savior, they will inevitably discover that the opposite results, and, as a punishment from God himself, will find themselves ruled by tyrants who hate them and plunder them for all their worth.

Since God’s salvation is very much about protecting His people from real-world enemies and freeing them from systems of Egyptian bondage, it is clear that trusting in the kingdoms of this world for protection, as men do anytime they claim human civil government is necessary to social order, is to abandon God’s salvation to trust in men as one’s “saviors.”

The popular idea of salvation in Christianity today is an almost purely otherworldly concept of the destination of our eternal soul in heaven, stripped of all hope for divine deliverance from our this-worldly enemies. If we look at God’s word, however, we see endless examples of God literally and physically saving His people from statist oppressors.

Without understanding what it means that human rulers can be “ordained” by God as His “servants,” people are likely to believe that human governments “serve” God in a positive sense of bringing “law and order” to society, when in fact they “serve” God by bringing lawlessness and disorder to a society as a form of judgment against statist sinners.

To buy into statist ideologies like socialism cannot be explained as mere economic ignorance, but more so that men are lost in sin. This is true of its malevolent practitioners as much as the lay advocates of such ideas. To explain this sin problem as mere economic ignorance is deficient. The spiritual deception that underlies these ideologies requires not more economic education, but for men to turn back to God.

One thing that keeps people participating in the systems of this world is the idea that other people are going to do it anyway and, therefore, we should do the same. This is nothing but worldly temptation. God’s people should be walking out of Egypt even if others demand to stay behind believing they can salvage their false and failing kingdoms.

Here is a ten-part series on God’s love of justice and liberty and His despise for the political plunder systems that men seek in their sin.

We have sinfully believed that we needed human rulers to lord over us and provide alleged “public goods” in order to have social order, and we have found ourselves justly living in captivity for this defiance of God’s commands. It’s time to repent of the political systems and seek the Kingdom of God as our only hope.

Though the evil statist systems of the world function as a means of God’s judgment upon a sinful people who are foolish enough to set them up, they are nevertheless evil themselves and also come under judgment from God for their sins, which He once used to bring terror upon a people’s wicked works.

God made men to live freely under Him, not to be property of the State. Much to His dismay, however, our people have followed after the ways of men instead of the ways of the Lord, and we have found ourselves living in captivity to human rulers for our own iniquity and idolatry for human government.

The institutions that go by the name of a “church” today are nothing more than distractions that keep people from seeking the Kingdom of God, which has everything to do with seeking justice, freedom, and actually serving one another in brotherly love, and very little to do with the rituals that men have mistake for “worship.”

This book on the prophet Hosea is the first in a series of books by Obadiah D. Morris to provide an anti-statist commentary on the Holy Scriptures.

The Biblical truth that a people reap what they sow perfectly explains the Egyptian police state society we live under today, where sowing the wicked seeds of human civil government have done nothing but reap a predictably evil harvest. It’s time we repent from these evils and seek the Kingdom of God if we wish to turn back the curse of statism.

Going under human civil government to feed and protect you is a sin because it makes you an accomplice to the theft, murder, idolatry, and other violations of God’s law that these systems are based on. This sin is repaid with bondage, where men find themselves feeding a class of political parasites as a punishment for their refusal to be ruled by God.

Many Christians today neglect their responsibility to pursue justice on earth and focus more on personal salvation and the afterlife. Yet this very heavenly-minded abdication of responsibility is what has led to the great injustices of political rule that have come upon us today. They have forgotten that God desires us to seek justice, and have strayed from seeing it the longer these evils have continued.

It is not too common in modern Christianity to hear anyone emphasize God’s love of justice and His sorrowful view of the injustices that we have made in our world. But God hates the political plunder systems we live under today, and He calls us to seek true justice as part of our general seeking of His kingdom.

As evil as the system of human government is, it is only a reflection of our own evils, where we have handed over our Godly responsibilities to the kingdoms of men. For this grave error, we are punished with great injustices that prevail all throughout society that act as divine judgment upon a backward people.

Whenever men abdicate their godly responsibilities to one another and hand the administration of justice and law over to state rulers to monopolize and control it, these men are naturally able to turn it into an instrument of plunder, and the whole nature of law is perverted and turned into a weapon against the people they pretend to protect.

True followers of Christ must reject the State and its enforcement agents, who are regularly involved in oppressive and violent systems that contradict God’s principles. Mere verbal claims of faith are insufficient proof of one’s allegiance to God; genuine faith necessitates a transformation in behaviors, including a complete renunciation of roles that perpetrate systemic injustices. Repentance and a commitment to righteousness are essential for the servant of the Lord.

Many who profess to be followers of the Lord have drawn illegitimate exceptions to their faith when it comes to worldly institutions. Thinking of the Lord as nothing more than their soul-saver, they find it acceptable to turn to human rulers and soldiers to protect them, when this is actually a rebellion against God. God’s true people should trust in the Lord as their “national defense.”

Those who know just how much God hates statism are well aware of the anxious citation of Romans 13 by Christians to justify their own statolatry. This scripture has been historically manipulated to support tyranny. But did you know that church leaders have been trained by the government to use it as a weapon for gaining obedience from believers?

All States are born in sin and rebellion to God. When the definition of statism is arbitrarily limited to include only those political systems that exceed some arbitrary bounds for what a State is “supposed to be” doing, they ignore the inherent sin-nature of these systems and seek to reform them to their alleged bounds, rather than repent from them altogether and seek the Kingdom of God.

Although the prosperity of inflationist regimes may mask their underlying destruction and plunder for some time, all empires inevitably fall and come under judgment for their sin of theft, inflation, murder, and oppression. Those who want to survive the collapse must seek the Kingdom of God as the only alternative to the failing systems of men.

It is easy for men to be lured into the illusion of prosperity under man’s political systems, given that inflationary regimes may appear to offer great prosperity for some time. Since true prosperity and economic stability requires patience and faith in God, many people end up forsaking God for the perceived prosperity of Egypts and Romes, under the delusion that these plunder regimes can last forever.

The Israelites’ longing to return to Egypt during their exodus parallels modern trust in the State. Those who lack faith in God turn back to human rulers to provide for them at the cost of their enslavement, and this lack of faith helps to empower the systems of man. Political bondage is made possible by men who believe socialist systems are the way to secure liberty and prosperity.

The temporary comforts of Egyptian-statist systems are usually sufficient to make men complacent to their bondage. Just as men before had failed to trust in God to provide for them, looking back to the alleged benefits of Egypt, so today they find it preferable to trust in States to deliver peace and prosperity than to put their faith in divine deliverance and providential provision, even though man’s systems are unsustainable.

Human government operates as a parasitic entity that thrives on wealth extraction through taxation that ultimately destroys economies and societies. Despite appearing prosperous due to its global economic dominance and the status of the U.S. dollar, the system is built on unsustainable practices of plunder and debt. Though a false prosperity masks underlying destruction for now, which has kept men hopeful, the U.S. faces an inevitable day of reckoning.

Sometimes the Spirit of the Lord has it that a long winded cry comes upon a man at the condition of political bondage which he lives under, and the longing to see the Kingdom of God appear.

It is foolish to think that political intervention stems from ignorance rather than malice. We are ruled by men who intentionally enact harmful policies to expand their power and enrich themselves, using deceptive narratives about the “common good” to do so. Understanding economics won’t change the actions of the men who rule over us, as their actions are driven by calculated exploitation. True change requires rejecting these inherently corrupt systems.

As the apostle James says, true Christianity is not just being a hearer of the word but a doer. The true followers of Jesus Christ must not only hear His words, but actively follow them and seek the Kingdom of God. We must seek to live separate and apart from the unrighteous ways of the world and dedicate ourselves to the calling to serve God as citizens of His kingdom.

Many secular advocates of liberty reject God in their vain attempt to get free from human rulers, thinking that being ruled by men or God is one and the same. They fail to recognize that statism is a result of rejecting God and that true liberty is only achievable under God’s sovereignty, and by rejecting God’s rule themselves, they inadvertently fall into the hands of tyrants.

Though few professing Christians would like to admit it, the very job of policing—using violence to enforce the edicts of politicians—involves behavior and acts that God detests, such as pride, deceit, violence, and discord. The role of “law Police are men who serve the State, rather than God.

Though the kingdoms of this world have many supporters, often many who tend to see through them have taken a hopeless view of what to do about it, thinking that any action to change society is futile. These men should rise up from their slumber and begin seeking the Kingdom of God. They should follow up their apathetic rejection of statism with active work to establish a godly society.

Many like to argue that a mere profession that one is a “Christian” is sufficient proof that they are, thus allowing for discrepancies between words and actions, such as claiming Christ but pledging allegiance to the kingdoms of this world. But scripture well-supports the idea that many men falsely claim to be servants of the Lord, who say one thing but do another.

Statism is an ungodly ideology that arises as part of man’s rebellion against divine order. The idea that human government is essential to social order does not come from God and demonstrates a total lack of faith in Him. True Christians reject statism, trust solely in God for all things, and pursue divine wisdom rather than follow the deceptive philosophies of the world.

Most modern churches not only fail to embody true Christian worship, which can be understood as serving one another, but they are even sinister institutions that exist to promote the worldly ideology of statism. They are nothing more than propaganda centers that pacify men into inaction. Far from idolizing the gods of this world, true Christian congregation actually serves one another and rejects political provision of goods.

Those who have had a fire lit inside them by the spirit of the Lord can’t help but to begin pondering ways to radically transform the society around us and wake others up from their slumber. Our people have idolized the men of the world and consequently have gone into bondage to them. But through awareness, agitation, repentance, and organization, it is possible to turn this Egyptian society upside down.

The problem with human government is not just that it has (expectedly) grown out of control. All degrees and forms of statism are inherently ungodly, rebellious, and plunderous. Seeking human rulers goes against the warnings in scriptures and ultimately leads to slavery. There is no hope in fixing the system from within. It needs to be abandoned as an evil false god. Statism must be abolished, not limited.

Though many “secularists” blame “theocracy” for the world’s problems, the social issues we face today are precisely due to humanity’s rejection of God’s true (anarchistic) theocracy in favor of man-made systems of governance. The tyrannies we face are a result not of “theocracy” per se, but forsaking divine rule for the false theocracy of statism. True liberty lies in embracing a God-centered order rather than a system of political gods.

By introducing anarcho-theocracy into the picture, we can challenge the notion that all theocratic systems lead to tyranny. While all social systems inherently possess theocratic elements, true theocracy, governed by God’s principles, promotes liberation rather than oppression. We have to distinguish between false theocracies, rooted in statism, and genuine theocracy. The latter—following God’s commandments—leads to a non-violent, charitable society rather than tyranny.

If we are seeking to follow the ways of early Christians, we should be focused on building Christian communities. The call to love our neighbor means to actually serve them. The essence of Christianity lies in living the Gospel and building actual communities to carry out the ways of Christ. It is time to begin networking with our neighbors and live out our faith with intention and purpose.

True allegiance to God involves renouncing worldly powers and the statist ideologies that accompany these systems. Genuine conversion requires Christians to live distinctly from secular influences, rejecting nationalistic symbols and the glorification of earthly governments that they may have once fell for. Those who follow the Lord must be born again into a new kingdom. Those entangled with worldly systems lack true commitment to Christ’s kingdom and need repentance.

Besides God’s command that true allegiance belongs solely to Him, there is another reason believers must reject the idea of dual citizenship in the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of men: The consequences of such divided loyalties bring great evils to society. Restoration is possible through sincere acknowledgment of sin and a commitment to serve only God.

There has been a persistent rebellion against God’s guidance throughout the history of mankind in regards to the misguided belief that state systems offer security and order, when in truth a reliance on political leaders as saviors leads to oppression and idols contrary to divine rule. This rebellion has resulted in repeated historical cycles of political subjugation and spiritual disobedience.

True allegiance to God must be to God alone. Participation in earthly political systems and idolization of their leaders contradicts biblical teachings. Christians who engage in statist practices are falling to satanic temptation. Jesus made it clear that His kingdom is separate from those of the worldly powers. Believers must reject “dual citizenship” and refrain from alliances with the kingdoms of this world and those who pursue their causes.

Followers of the Lord were always to be a separate people from worldly political systems. The States of today are the same oppressive kingdoms like Egypt and Rome that God calls us to avoid. Allegiance to God alone requires rejecting the practices of statists and participation in their systems. Going after the man-made authoritarianism of the world is a betrayal of faith. Christians must seek God’s kingdom instead.

Christians cannot simultaneously pledge allegiance to God and earthly governments. Such dual loyalty is spiritual adultery and betrays God. Men of God must choose God’s kingdom over the statist kingdoms of the world, as these earthly authorities are false gods. True believers must renounce all worldly ties to faithfully serve the Lord alone.

Here are more details of the Samuel Eight Project that may be of interest to readers: how the project came about, the thinking of the public, more about the scripture itself, and instructions on making a submission.

An introduction the Samuel Eight Project. The scriptural background, man’s political rebellion against God, God’s warning of what it would mean, its pertinence today, and what we hope to achieve with the project.

The Samuel Eight Project is a project by our ministry to list crimes by government in order to show the people today that God’s warning to the Israelites of the destruction that comes from king-seeking is still relevant today.

When men perceive that “their” guys are in power, they are likely to grow complacent with power itself as well as continue to forsake working on the advancement of God’s Kingdom, which they now figure is more or less being delivered by the government itself. After the 2024 election, there appears to be an unhealthy optimism toward the political system, which remains on God’s chopping block.

The political spectrum as commonly understood does not provide us with enough information once God is considered. Here we propose that the real spectrum is between anarcho-theocracy and statist theocracy. True liberty arises only when God governs society, and all human authority is ungodly. All forms of statism reject God’s rule, leading to tyranny.

The basic Biblical instruction to reject earthly rulers and embrace Jesus Christ as the sole King provides us with a Christian politics. This political position might be called “Christarchism,” where there is no King but Christ Jesus. A Christian social order is an “anarcho-theocracy” of sorts where God is the ruler of a stateless people. The worldly ideology of statism—the allegiance to human authority—is incompatible with Christianity.

Statism functions as a false religion, characterized by rulers acting as “gods” in opposition to the true theocracy of God. Christians who align themselves with statism therefore expose themselves as unfaithful to God, because there is inherent conflict between allegiance to God and earthly governments. Genuine faith demands rejection of state worship, which is unavoidable in the ideology of statism itself.

Contrary to those who make it out to be some innocent, secular “civic duty,” participating in voting is akin to making a vow to a false deity, undermining a Christian’s faithfulness to God’s kingdom. A basic look at the etymology of “vote” shows that it’s a sacred commitment that contradicts Jesus’ teachings against oaths. Abstaining from voting reflects true allegiance to God’s authority.

The idea of theocracy has been ill-conceived by most people. It has been defined as the religio-political systems of the world. While we may call these systems theocracies too, true theocracy is diametrically opposed to statist systems. Theocracy in its truest sense is anarchist. Statism is a false religion, a ‘false god’ system that is completely at odds with God’s theocracy, where He rules instead of men.

Jesus’ statement regarding taxes illustrates a critical distinction between loyalty to God and earthly authority. His clever, almost ambiguous response the attempt to trap Him in His words emphasizes God as the true owner of all, challenging the legitimacy of Roman taxation. Ultimately, the choice is between allegiance to God or Caesar. In this view, avoiding taxes becomes a radical expression of discipleship and resistance to worldly tyranny.

Few Christians seem to recognize their authority to pray to God against the demonic forces of our world. But this theme of calling upon God to remove our enemies is all throughout the Psalms, and calls of repentance are found all throughout the books of the prophets. It would be wise for us to get back to this tradition as the evils advance.

The great, sinful idolatry towards the State isn’t even realized by most Christians, who have been trained to think “God and country” are compatible ideas. And so they even mock those who don’t take part in their idolatries, as was evident in a sports injury by someone who wouldn’t kneel for the National Anthem.

Combating statism requires more than logical argumentation or economic education. Men need to undergo a spiritual transformation and truly come out of the world and all its lies. Men endorse statism more due to spiritual corruption rather than lack of understanding. We have to keep this in mind as we minister to men in the ways of the Lord.

The State functions as a false god, substituting itself for God’s promises of protection and prosperity. The “joy” of the godless man is in these political systems and their figures. It only makes sense that a politician would say “we will vote with joy.” It is men and their systems that they trust in. True joy and security, however, come from trusting in the Lord, not in human institutions.

State holidays such as Veterans Day are a celebration of idolatry. The faith and trust many Christians place in the State and its military is misplaced and should be redirected towards God. This idolatrous veneration of the State contradicts biblical teachings about reliance on God for protection, salvation, and guidance.

Many Christians are misled to believe that voting for human rulers is necessary given the existence of even worse ones. But this merely showcases a lack of faith in God. Placing trust in man-kings is a rejection of divine authority and protection, no matter how many evil men there are. The true call for believers is to repent from supporting earthly governments and return to reliance on God for deliverance.

There is a pervasive theme in the Psalms that is almost always overlooked: the existence of evil conspirators, ie., government rulers, who prey on God’s children. The Psalms call for divine protection from these wicked men and speak of God’s eventual judgment upon them. The praise-oriented lessons typically taken from the Psalms is enriched by seeing that it is linked to God’s justice against these enemies of humanity.

Christians should reconsider their participation in political voting, considering that it as a form of engagement with pagan-statist systems that perpetuate evil. Christians should question the legitimacy of human rulership and see that true allegiance belongs to Jesus Christ, who is the ultimate ruler, making voting unnecessary for Christians.

The modern intertwining of Christianity and political systems is a corruption. The many Christians today who mistakenly justify state violence and politics as essential for societal good are in error and out of step with earlier Christians. Many historical Christian teachings decidedly advocate against involvement in worldly politics, and preach a reliance on faith and non-violence rather than voting, campaigning, political power, or military might.

The biblical narrative of God’s people seeking earthly kings to rule over them is easily likened to modern voters forsaking divine leadership for human rulers. No less than with a monarch, democratic voting represents a rejection of God, perpetuating a cycle of bondage while advocating for political systems rooted in violence and sin. True liberation lies in repentance and reestablishing God’s sovereignty, rather than seeking worldly governance.

Participating in politics, such as voting for politicians or supporting them, is to be aligned with worldly systems, which are fundamentally opposed to the teachings of Christ. The popular notion that Christians must vote to influence society denies the power of the gospel and only works to legitimize corrupt systems. True change comes from preaching the gospel and building community, not relying on political acts like voting.

Many people upon seeing the evils in the world are angered to the point of violent resistance. They want to fight back against the tyrants. But by doing so we inevitably adopt their means. It is arguably better, and more the Christian position, to be a martyr than a mini-tyrant.

According to many Christians, the prevalence of evils in our world strengthens the case for our political participation. But the truth is that political participation and the ideology and idolatry of statism that comes along with it is the very cause of our problems today. If we truly hated the evils, we would repent rather than vote, which is truly a mark of unrepentance.

Serving the State as a soldier, police officer, or tax-collector is not compatible with serving the Lord. There is an irreconcilable conflict between God and the State that means that Christians may not serve it. They have to decide whether they serve either the One True God or the false gods of the world.

There is a crucial distinction between “State” and “government.” While the State raises up men who coercively monopolize goods and services, genuine government, as prescribed by God, operates within family order. The State’s agenda opposes God’s family-centered social order. Thus, opposing the State does not equate to opposing government; instead, it aligns with returning to true governance under God. Statism is lawlessness, and there is order in God’s government.

God is calling His people to restore a God-centered society free from the oppression of man-made political systems. Christians must reject statism and return to divine principles of organizing social order. We must advocate and practice voluntary charity and warn against the destructive nature of human governance that enslaves people and property.

For far too long we have looked toward the documents of men as our source of right and wrong. But the power to abolish human government is inherent in the individual. Real freedom comes from recognizing God as the ultimate authority. We need not bear the sword to be free. Personal revolutions, rooted in spiritual regeneration, should replace the reliance on institutional government. True governance begins within, not through reform.

Abbot Tryphon, an Orthodox Christian priest, argues that criticizing law enforcement and urging officers to quit signifies a Marxist stance, not godly opposition. But if we judge by looking at the lives of Jesus Christ and the Apostles, we see that serving the State is decidedly unchristian

As politicians call for legal penalties for desecration of the American flag, one of the “sacred” idols of this cult, now is a better time than ever for Christians to give up their mistaken idolatry for state symbols, which places their true faith in the false religion of statism. Christians should instead burn and renounce these idols, as such an act would express genuine repentance and allegiance to God.

We see in our world today that many men are complaining about the political state of things, but haven’t yet seen that they stem from their faith in this inherently flawed system, that their own discontent arises from their failure to acknowledge their misplaced trust in a system that God warned us against, and that repentance and a return to the Lord’s provision is the solution.

Many of the things that so many American Christians tell us we must be doing, like voting and being politically involved, are inconsistent with true Christian teachings. Advancing God’s kingdom relies on preaching the gospel, making disciples, and community engagement, rather than reliance on flawed government systems, which ultimately reflect a misunderstanding of Christ’s message.

Statism is as a coercive system rooted in theft and violence that is opposed God’s natural order and law. Governments not only fail economically and morally and contribute to societal decay for this reason, but also because they are set out against God. True social harmony arises from voluntary relationships grounded in faith and obedience to God’s commands, not from coercive political structures.

The existence of statism, with its inherent evils and societal decay, is evidence of God’s judgment and presence. Historical and contemporary governmental failures reflect humanity’s rebellion against divine authority, and show us the Lord’s hand in it. By bringing destruction upon people who choose the statist path, or liberty to those who don’t forsake God, the Lord reveals Himself to us.

It’s not easy preaching on the idolatry of statism in a world where it is a religion of men. It’s difficult to convince people to abandon their deeply-rooted belief in the state when it is their god, and so God’s message of liberty is usually rejected by men who like to remain in captivity to statism (both as an institution and ideology), and would rather serve false idols than repent.

In our times of division over various theological issues, there is a great need for the Church to function as a unified body, where we separate from worldly systems and engage in community-driven practices inspired by the early Church as described in the book of Acts.

The introduction by men of political violence into society is condemned in the scriptures, and for that reason alone cannot last. The man-made statist kingdoms are destined to fail and will be replaced by God’s everlasting kingdom. Those who defend the permanence and necessity of the State are false prophets, or the fools of one. In the end, the kingdoms of men will be abolished by God’s judgment.

The prioritization of guns over faith in the United States fails to see that the dangers of statism require a spiritual awakening more than armed men. The power to change our world is in God’s word, and so we ought to advocate for divine wisdom and spiritual guidance over physical weapons in the battle against false ideologies.

The twentieth century was marked by a shift towards secular thinking, which was naturally accompanied by state power. But there appears to be a great awakening in our time. Men are seemingly realizing the need to rely on God to combat tyranny, and the potential for the victory of liberty. Here we discuss Murray Rothbard’s prediction of a failure of secularist statism and a revival of theologically-grounded liberty.

When men get their ideas from the world of ideas, rather than rely on the word of God, they inevitably find themselves buying into the statist philosophies of the world and helping to further the kingdoms of men. The way out of this bondage is to rely on divine wisdom once again.

The indulgence in many worldly distractions takes away from our need for a more somber and repentant approach to the evils around us. Men are eating up the “bread and circuses” all while we find ourselves occupied by a dangerous empire. To ever break out of this bondage, we are going to have to recognize the evils, repent of our participation in them, and seek refuge in the Lord.

When the spiritual and ideological aspects of liberty and bondage are emphasized, it’s easy to see the futility of relying solely on firearms for freedom. It is spiritual enslavement and idolatry that contribute to the empowerment of oppressive systems, and only God that provides true liberation. Thus, adressing the root cause of statism through repentance and spiritual awakening is more crucial than amassing weapons for resistance.

The ideas we commonly hear from most Christians—that we must get out and vote, that we need political rulers, that statism isn’t idolatry, that there’s nothing wrong with Caesar’s retirement programs—are highly at odds with what the true Kingdom of God looks like. Here we interview Michael Plaisted who helps present a very different picture of what liberty under God looks like than what most men tell us.

Man-kings are false gods whose earthly kingdoms are inherently sinful substitutes of men for God. They believe they are “gods” themselves and attempt to trick people into worshiping them instead. Though many people fall for these false god-men, true men of God must worship God rather than these human rulers who are merely pretending to be gods worthy of worship.

Many people mock and resist God’s word and face the consequences of such rejection. They prefer to adhere to false beliefs and desire comforting lies over uncomfortable truths. They refuse to believe that politicians are not going to save them. We can only hopes for a change of heart in people and pray for a return to God’s wisdom and a retreat of the evil political system.

Secular political economy is inadequate in combating statism, which is an evil and idolatrous ideology that lies in a rejection of God and demands spiritual repentance more than it does an economics lesson. But we can still appreciate the great insights from secular theorists such as Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, though their exclusion of God from their perspectives weakens their arguments and needs to be reconciled with theological perspectives to strengthen them.

The appropriation of religious teachings by law enforcement is illegitimate, but not a surprising attempt to present themselves as righteous peacemakers who serve God. Rather, police enforce man-made laws through violence, contradicting the teachings of Jesus they try to use. Being that policing is violent and oppressive, police are hypocritical to claim they serve the Lord and carry out His word. police do not bring peace, but terror and destruction.

While some assert that God is a tool for social control, the Holy Scriptures, contrary to human distortions, liberate humanity from man-made slavery. God’s word stands against politically driven systems of human domination, and promotes freedom, justice, and righteousness. An intellectual and spiritual revolution from slavery is inhibited by the under-utilization and ignorance of the scriptures, not their full use being forced upon men as some sort of propaganda device.

Governments are not benevolent agents of the “public good,” whether the overtly socialist “people’s governments” or the covertly socialist “we the people” Republics. They are scheming entities that use propaganda and false pretenses to control and exploit the populations they have gained control over. The idea that they exist for “the common good” was something men were trained to believe to hide their true nature as evil, deliberate plunderers.

Here is our 8-part series on “pride in the scriptures” and how much it relates to the philosophy of statism in the world that is adopted by both rulers and those who think we need them.

Pointing out statism as a religion is not merely a secular tool for arguing against opponents, but is the very false religion and sin in the teachings of God. The State is a false god not only because it is worshiped and venerated by its followers, but because it is one of the very things that defines man’s sin and rebellion against God.

Perhaps the majority of men hold the fallacy that “government is a necessary evil.” But evil is never necessary for society. Order comes through submission to the Lord, not through governments. The belief in governments as “necessary evils” is false, and a reflection of the sin in men. The Christian has no basis for pursuing evils in the name of social order.