“Without an exhaustive rule through the predestinating love of the Father, unbelieving men will always see a job opening. They will want to fill that gap. They mimic the Father’s omnipotence, which is where we get the totalitarian part. They also try to mimic His love, which is how we get the tolerance farce. And so it is that we find ourselves suffocating under this totalitolerance.” — Douglas Wilson, Mere Christendom
Where men want to know everything without being seen as know-it-all's and where men want to control everything without being called dictator's, they create totalitolerance. It gives them the ability to meddle and the authority to be moral. In other words, they can say things like "enforced because we care" without blushing.
“Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.” — G.K. Chesterton
If there is no standard above us all, the thing above most of us will claim to be over everything.
"If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments." — G..K. Chesterton
Because the state is not God, it cannot cut with the sword of the Spirit, so it must settle for a million tiny pin pricks. Because it cannot reach the conscience, it must break the skin. Because it does not have unchanging principles on which to conform its people to the image of Christ, it must make a myriad of changing laws to conform its people to an image of its own liking.
"There is now a false idealism of turning Government into God, by a vague notion that it gives everything to everybody." — G.K. Chesterton
The state is insatiable because it is unsustainable. It can only maintain power by grabbing for more power. It cannot rest on authority because it relies on stolen valor. If it slows down, it will cease to exist. So, it high jacks the sphere of authority rightly assigned to it by God and uses it to eliminate the other spheres of authority God has created: the individual (self-government), the family (household government), and the church (ecclesiastical government). Imagine, if you will, they implore, no Hell below and above us only sky. They repeat this mantra as they mandate the use of more drones, cameras, credit monitoring, and surveillance.
"Mankind has two problems: pride and lust. Pride repels us from heaven and lust binds us to the earth." — Blaise Paschal
Our pride pushes against Heaven and our lust licks the floor. Because we despise grace, we set up our one stop meritocracy shops. Because we are attracted to sin, we legislate licentiousness and outlaw the Law of God. The two of these combine to become the modern love story of totalitolerance.
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