Westerners are spoiled; we seem to think that democracies are the ideal. Truly our democratic-republic remains much superior to even England's faux monarchy. We are much better off than those in the Saudi monarchy. However, we are being controlled as they are under control; they are more transparent with their repression. Covert forces repress this nation.
I think of Popper's Paradox of Tolerance: "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." ( Popper, Karl, The Open Society and Its Enemies, volume 1, The Spell of Plato, 1945 (Routledge, United Kingdom); ISBN 0-415-29063-5 978-0-691-15813-6 (1 volume 2013 Princeton ed.) That paradox is the process to the loss of freedom. Intolerance apply to those who cannot endure others for whatever reason. Usually, intolerance is for obvious characteristics such as race, nationality, language, or even gender. The less obvious but more profound intolerance is people's world-view, or even cosmic-view.
Historically, nearly all societies have been intolerant of Judaism, It doesn't matter why, to them, but it is because of JHWH. Yahweh is an intolerant God, to wit: (1) "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (Exod 20:3) and (2) " Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12), complemented by, "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (John 14:6).
God is so intolerant in that regard that the penalty for disbelief in that is death (Rom 6:23). The Law of God condenses to accepting those truths or not. Non-acceptance of God's conditions for salvation is extreme and enduring. The world rightfully sees God as intolerant. Therefore, the world must apply Popper's Paradox of Tolerance - in order to maintain the world, the world must be intolerant of God's intolerance. That is the situation: People of all ages have been intolerant of the One True God in the guise of tolerance. Of course, Holy Scripture does not teach hyper-tolerance but conditional tolerance.
Conditional tolerance is a readiness to forgive, and patience for others to come to the truth. Jesus even admonished to "forgive seventy times seven" (Mat 18:22) which was his way of saying long-suffering (Gal 5:22). God's will is tolerance, which Christians call grace. God's justice is intolerant which is a just penalty for rejecting His authority. "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder" (Isa 9:6).
Jesus was born to rule God's Kingdom. Adam and Eve rejected God's authority and government. That was the original sin. They did what was right in their own eyes" (Jud 17:6). That was spiritual libertarianism. They were not civil libertarians but thought so. They were obedient to the Prince of the Air and his authority!
The early Hebrews rejected God's Kingship and authority just as Adam did. They repeated the original sin, and to this day mankind's problem is the same rejection of God's will, or the Law of God, in their lives. Jesus told believers to pray, "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven" (Mat 6:10). The world rejects that teaching! There desire is that mankind's will be done on earth, and that Heaven is mere mythology. The world has a will, and it is in total opposition to God's. The will of the masses is that they be able to do whatever they deem is right. They want liberty even in the face of eternal death.
Governments - civil control - are ordained by God as evil but necessary:
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. (Rom 13:1-3).People need some type of control! If everyone was free to do what is right in their own eyes, they would be back to the days of Noah. The world was utterly libertarian, everyone save Noah, rejecting God's authority. God knew that even evil governments were better than no government. People are born with the propensity toward evil. For instance, those who utilize Popper's Paradox have good intentions but to evil ends. Their intolerance of the intolerant is hatred, just as the intolerant are hateful. That paradox is in everyday use to this day.
George Soros uses Popper's Paradox of Tolerance in his effort to change the world. He, as author of tolerance, is the most intolerant of the intolerant! He believes he is doing good with the notion of social justice, but is unjust to those most just; I am referring to those Christians who live righteous lives. God's Non-Paradox of Tolerance is to love one another, as you love yourself (Mat 19:19).
Popper's Paradox of Tolerance, in spiritual terms, would be destroy those who differ with you. I didn't write, "are different" but "differ" because Soros's brand of intolerance is not based on appearance but ideas. Soros finds Christianity abhorrent, and therefore, Christ must be eliminated from the world. The apocalypse is the Antichrist's attempt to do just that, so Soros is an antichrist. The doctrine of hatred is how antichrists attempt to overthrow God's government, of course disguised as tolerant and loving.
Americans have been molded to believe in the separation of church and state because the established church institution wasn't faithful to God's command to love. Society stepped in and established a new system of feigned love: socialism. It's not really about charity but power. It is merely a new form of government whose leaders' aims are to control the kingdoms which God claims are His. One of their tenets is that Christianity (religion) is a roadblock to Utopia. Socialism is libertarianism from God under the pretense that it is social justice. It is a return to the same old theme: doing what mankind wills rather than God.
Without regard to whom our rulers are, God still sits on the throne and reigns. Governments are ordained by Him. Rulers rule because God allows them to do so. Whenever the citizens take to the streets with violence, it is mob rule. We have learned from experience that it isn't love which spawns the mobs but Popper's Paradox of Tolerance. They hate in the name of love. That is Satan's Paradox of Hatred! The mob are libertarians; they care little about anything but the ability to do what they want to do, and force those who disagree to do the same thing! Liberty, huh?
For instance, the proponents of same-sex marriage demand the liberty of marrying whoever they desire, but don't merely stop there; they demand that everyone else accept their deviancy from the institution of Holy Matrimony.
Liberals are libertarian to the degree that they abort babies because they love women so much (sic), notwithstanding that half the abortions are female babies. Liberals hate those who disagree so much that they call everyone who disagree haters! Liberals profess social justice (sic) to the extreme that they don't care that mostly black babies are aborted. That's not libertarian in reality but Satan's Paradox of Hatred. Why so? Because hatred and murder are ultimately the same (1 John 3:15).
I write about those things today because libertarianism and socialism ultimately result in the same thing: rejection of God's authority. They both attack God and the Law of God in favor of human rights. America is more about human rights than it is regulation of human wrongs. Millions have suffered death for human rights sake; that it is the outcome of Popper's Paradox. Seven-hundred thousand people died in the not-so-Civil War because the lawful government process was ignored in favor of the radical mob. Our system of government should have worked without a war. Because a few were intolerant of others, many lost their lives. They did good but wrong was the outcome. Modern-day division and hatred is a remnant of that misguided way to obtain social justice.
People don't agree with my outlook on that war, but it is true! Even America's attempt to force democracy on ungovernable people is farcical. Only God can rule the pagans, and our attempts to force peace is itself mongering war. Rather than taking missiles to the world, Christian nations should be telling them about the love of Jesus. War is about whose God is stronger. If Americans would honor God's authority, the Abrahamic Covenant ensures our prosperity. The way to change the world is to bring God to all the nations. Someday that time will come. Surely it will come quickly (Rev 22:20).
On a personal note, I am not socialist (progressive), liberal, conservative or any other secular ideologist. I am a humble Christian who trusts God for He is the One in authority. Any ideologies which stand against God are anathema to me, and of course to God. Some are social conservatives and others economic conservatives. I am merely orthodox to the Doctrine of Christ. Society calls that "conservative" in derision. We find from scripture that liberty does not come from any other government than God's. In that manner, I have spiritual liberty but those with spiritual liberty delight in God's Law of love. That seems to be God's Paradox of Liberty.
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