day no. 17,022: the sacred symbol of secularism

“The radical passiveness of mankind is the sacred symbol of the party that proclaims itself exclusively democratic.” — Frederic Bastiat, The Law

The doctrine of radical passivity is the premise for ordinary tyranny. The Democratic Party presupposes that people are so inherently lazy and stupid that they would rather live like prisoners with free room and board than live like free men who have to work for a living. They prove this theory time and time again through their policies. History lends credibility to their creed.

Except for where Christ reigns. Where Christendom has taken root, these kind of philosophies and policies have been confronted, condemned, and eradicated. In a Christian land, people prefer the dignity of freedom with work hard to the depravity of bondage with handouts. 

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.

Christian liberty is an active thing. It is not passively worked upon or worked over. It carries its own load; not because it has to, but because it wants to.

Galatians 6:4

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

Christian liberty does not need or want a license from the state to live however it wants. It already has a license from God to live according to His commands. He has provided all the essential rights. Christian liberty has what it wants. The only thing it wants from the state is for it to mind its own business and stay out of other peoples' (1 Tim. 2:2)

Slavery is the sacred symbol of secularism. It promotes the passivity of its people like a perverted Lord's Supper. It gives you daily bread, but not before it grinds your neighbor into flour. It gives you rights, but not without assuming itself to be the source of all rights.