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August 29, 2011
Love Your Government
We’ve heard many elected officials give evacuation plans for hurricane
Irene. However I think New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took the emergency
preparedness playbook plans one step further and overlaid it with Biblical principles,
“First go to your family and your friends
and save the shelters for those who have no other place to go. Don’t make a
shelter your first resort, but make it your last resort.” No doubt many of
us fail to practice ‘love your neighbor as yourself’ because we’ve abdicated
our responsibility to the government.
Gail;
ReplyDelete-----Really, there is no good reason to love your government unless you love your neighbor. If the fundamental purpose of a government is not to secure a situation in which its citizens can make and seize opportunities to live their own lives, then its true effect is to destroy their opportunity to do so. When the government places itself in the role of providing anything beyond that for the people, it only erodes their competence and self-sufficiency. And it is hard to love what destroys who you love.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
I’m thinking a poor choice of title on my part!
ReplyDeleteGail