Take you theology to its logical conclusion. All power comes from God. Ergo might makes right.
Well ultimately, that is precisely the case. Were God not able to back up His decrees, then the heathen has nothing at all about which to worry. If not God Almighty, then Might rests with "Mother Nature" (which, absent God, is just a god of Top Might). If not Mother Nature, then it is some other effective "god." Without some god beyond man, some objective superior force in nature, then Hitler would certainly have been morally right had he been able to pull off his designs. He would have been Top Might and able to define what is morally permissible and what is not.
BTW supporting the gov to do what you don't want to do yourself takes an odd sort of morality.
(sigh) I weary of this. It most certainly does not take any sort of odd morality. I despise the idea of taxation and wish it were not needed in any way. I certainly would not want to go through the undoubtedly tiresome effort to set up a tax structure for all citizens. I just do not want to do this at all and I doubt whether I can do it because I don't have the temperament for it. But I support the government's need to tax in principle. Likewise, I do not wish to take revenge upon anyone, setting them up in a punitive facility or actually executing and then disposing of their bodies. I am not qualified to run a prison and neither am I qualified of my own to pass judgment upon and sentence a wrongdoer. But I certainly understand why the government has to punish wrongdoers, and I support its doing so. The government has many counselors who God often uses to judge wrongdoers. Sometimes those counselors will sentence a wrongdoer to death. It is not my job alone to do this. It is the job of the government. By doing this the government, and not me, establishes the boundaries of behavior in our society. I may not agree with every punishment. But I agree with the government's right to have available to it certain tools of punishment, including the death penalty. There is nothing odd about this at friggin' all. |
