Without God, liberty at risk

Government dependency has created our economic problems through encouraging people to abandon their personal, economical, and/or societal obligations in favor of bureaucratic control to guarantee every citizen's future/ security.

This dependency on government has diminished liberty through a systematic condemnation of the Christian faith, because of the assertion people are incapable of being responsible. This necessitates governmental monitoring to ensure the required submission to the authority of men - not God.

The people's impatience toward government reveals their lack of faith, and their angry words expose the lack of God's presence/peace in their hearts. Because “ … out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks …” (Matthew 12:34), and it's the condition of a person's heart that tells whether they serve the spirit or the flesh.

Now, God is the spirit and humanity/worldly desires is the flesh. The difference between them can be observed in love verses lust, because scripture says these two war against each other (Galatians 5:16,17).

Clearly the presumptuous judgments of Christianity's critics are influenced by the deeds of believers, who allow emotionalism to overwhelm their faithful submission to God‘s will.

Without God's influence in America, the government subjugation of the people is easier, because as scripture says, “ … the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak …” (Matthew 26:41).

Richard J. Tjarks

Hiawatha