day no. 15,951: accomplicity

“In any successful attack on freedom the state can only be an accomplice. The chief culprit is the citizen who forgets his duty, wastes away his strength in the sleep of sin and sensual pleasure, and so loses the power of his own initiative.” - Abraham Kuyper

The best attacks on freedom begin with the free forfeiting their own rights. The state encourages its citizens to vote their rights away or to surrender them without a vote.

When sin is most active, those marinated in it are least active.

Sin is slavery.

The state can aid and abet, but it cannot initiate; it can capitalize off of our lack of initiative, but it has no capital of its own. It cannot print its own inertia, but it can harness a populace who has been broken.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.