by Haruo » Thu Jan 31, 2019 7:10 am
And further, as a Christian citizen of a representative democracy, I see it as my Christian duty to seek where and as I can to encourage "Caesar" to behave more like Christ itself. Scripture doesn't have as much to say, that I can see anyway, about the proper behavior of Christians (or Jews) as citizens of representative democracies than it has about despotisms and monarchies, but we all still have to work that part of duty out with, perhaps, a bit of fear and trembling. This certainly applies currently in the areas of immigration policies and treatment of unauthorized migrants, in the laws concerning abortion and other reproductive issues, and in sexual and gender issues, as well as in the United States' behavior vis-à-vis other countries including Afghanistan, Venezuela, Iran, Israel, Congo, Gabon, Syria, Russia, China, North Korea, and Honduras. The issues are complex, there are competing factors, and there is no way I can see to impose a positive outcome in most of them, but still our individual Christianity must, I think, be paramount in deciding what to try to get our government to do.
Haruo = Leland Bryant Ross
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