Statism

•  While America began as a system of sovereign statehood, we recently began sprinting toward subjugation under statism. Our government has crowned itself in an attempt to supercede God as the creator of objective truth. This is at the heart of every government overreach and must be opposed at every opportunity. In the words of President Reagan:

  "Government is like a big baby – an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other... Either you will control your government, or government will control you." 

• We must all combat statism by continually telling our state's representatives to stay firmly in their appropriate position of authority. That small realm where they are allowed to live is defined by the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Every elected official exists only because the Constitution says they can, and we must never forget that.

• I affirm the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrate, the right of states and localities to nullify when Constitutionally and Biblically permitted, and the right of the citizen to engage in civil disobedience in opposition to tyranny.

• I wholeheartedly reject the absurd myth of a "neutral public square". The public square, digital or physical, has never been neutral. Everyone worships something or someone by placing that entity as their ultimate authority. Everyone maintains a worldview that they place faith in. The concept of a perfectly neutral public square is logically impossible. You are free to put forth your own false god as the purpose of your conviction and reasoning, and I am free to put forth the one true God as mine. This exchange of opposing ideas is foundational to the beauty of America. Let us dispense with the ridiculous notion that we can debate on a neutral ground devoid of any religious influence.