Yes King
You know, having a king isn’t inherently bad. A king can be wise and good in his leadership, or weak and ignorant, selfish and malevolent, or any combination of various good and bad qualities. As with every national leader, his “subjects” will accept, respect, or reject him depending on whether or not they like how he governs.
But the subjects or citizens of a country are likewise either wise and good or weak, ignorant, selfish, deceitful, immoral etc. So opposition and revolt is sometimes unwise, unreasonable, and detrimental to the good of that country. Its citizens, not its leadership, are the ones doing wrong and threatening rights and livelihoods.
We are all flawed human beings but made in the image of God, so we have an innate moral sense that compels us to seek justice for ourselves and others. But this sense can be misguided and perverted when we choose anything other than God himself as our moral standard.
We do have a King and he IS wise and good. To say, “Jesus Christ is King” is offensive to some, but that is either a true or false statement. Either God exists or he doesn’t, and either Jesus is God and King or he isn’t. Either way, it’s extremely important for all of us to decide which we believe to be true.
Because how we conduct ourselves and what policies we support or rail against in this life, and where we end up in the next, depend on it.
Nonsense again, Caroline.
You seem to have no belief in your innate or inherited capacities, seeing yourself as fundamentally “flawed.” That’s a terribly self-destructive way to stumble through life and then die without much purpose.
Focus on your strengths, as people without religious claptrap befogging their brains tend to. What kind of feeble person needs a “king” (or even more, a “queen”) to find themselves on this perilous journey?
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I think you’re missing the point.
She’s not claiming that we should forgo the use of our humanity. She’s responding to a political slogan. For one, she’s pointing out that when people of a “nation under God” say “No kings,” it’s a flagrant contradiction. For another, she’s saying that we ought to obey that King, because the consequences will profoundly affect people in this life and the next.
(Then again, maybe I’m missing the point. What do I know?)
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People can say whatever they want – I of course do not say a “nation under God,” because this is a secular nation, I have no idea what entity they claim they are under, and “No Kings” refers to human beings that claim monarchical status, not imaginary deities.
As far as tone-policing atheism, if that’s your thing, whack away at it, but apologists like Caroline aren’t children, and should expect some pointed commentary whenever they flail away at their atheist countryfolk./
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Dude, I’m not tone-policing atheism. I’m critiquing your vapid and thoughtless responses. You’re offering no substance, rigor, thought, or content; you’re just trotting out tweets that are essentially answering her at the level of a child.
Then again, you sound like a child, so you’re probably acting your age.
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Ph.d, my ass.
I’ve never tweeted in my life.
Do some more reading before you write more tone-policing nonsense.
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LOL! Bruh, I’m trying to steelman Christians and prod people like you to improve your interlocution. I’m just getting started.
Thanks for the chat!
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