"Whoa Nelly!"

Remember that in past history other governments have tried to force Christians to huddle and hide only within the confines of their churches like the first disciples locked up in the Upper Room.

In the late 19th century, Bismarck waged his “Kulturkampf,” a Culture War, against the Roman Catholic Church, closing down every Catholic school and hospital, convent and monastery in Imperial Germany.

Clemenceau, nicknamed “the priest eater,” tried the same thing in France in the first decade of the 20th Century.

Hitler and Stalin, at their better moments, would just barely tolerate some churches remaining open, but would not tolerate any competition with the state in education, social services, and health care.

In clear violation of our First Amendment rights, Barack Obama – with his radical, pro abortion and extreme secularist agenda, now seems intent on following a similar path.

Now things have come to such a pass in America that this is a battle that we could lose, but before the awesome judgement seat of Almighty God this is not a war where any believing Catholic may remain neutral.

http://www.thecatholicpost.com/post/PostArticle.aspx?ID=2440

On the one hand, he's right as rain about the tools the tyrants have used in the past to seduce and compel those they must subdue.  Once government controls the delivery of health care, they have us all by the "dangling reproductive organs."

On the other hand, as near crazy as this sort of talk can seem to those on the outside of this person's interpretation of his faith, it's even crazier that the natural implications of his perspective are never realized.  The natural conclusion is "men should not be empowered to act as gods."  Goverment should have a clear, defined, limited, early purpose, otherwise, it will be coopted and corrupted by men, who are fallen.  The government's purpose should be nothing more, and nothing less, than to defend individual rights and to allow for the group to defend themselves from an outside invader.

The argument heard instead is the incessant "If good people like us can just get control of government, think of all the good we can do!"  This lament is heard on all sides and by all parties because they all believe in the rightness of their own cause, and are willing to do what is required - starting with lying, cheating and stealing - to achieve it. 

The pundits blather about the heated, impolite nature of politics today but never stumble across the obvious - if the government is endowed with so much power that it can lay hands on and run 16% of the economy of our nation (health care), it simply must be fought over.  There is no alternative.  It's never going to be the case that so much power will not be mightily contested. 

You want politics to be less divisive?  LIMIT GOVERMENT'S POWER.  Asking to have politicians running our lives coercively, but insisting that it be done with polite kindness is too ridiculous for characterization. 

"Why can't we just all get along?"