40 days towards a more godly nation - Jesus Is Involved In Politics

just as a king could hand out dukedoms or knighthoods. And in the same way,
government can arbitrarily take away those rights just as the Soviets and the
Nazis did.
This is insidious if you take it to its logical conclusion. If government
were the giver of rights, this would mean that you could only call what the U.S.
did during the slavery era a preference. You could not say it was wrong since
in this scenario the slaves had no inherent rights. Again, this is key. You cannot
place any moral value on rights if the very basis of those rights is decided by
the preference of a group of men or women who feel a certain way at a certain
time.
The truth is that slaves on American soil and worldwide have always
had rights, those given to them by the Creator, but they were being immorally
and unjustly oppressed by the government and the people of the United States.
In the same way, if the government had been the granter of rights, then
the slaves received rights that weren’t theirs previously; they just got some new
rights, and the whole battle for their God-given rights was a farce. Worse yet, if
popular opinion should shift one day, those rights could be just as “justly”
taken away.
The only way any person could claim he already had rights, which
could never ever be taken away from him by any other human, is if someone
who was in charge of all humans were to give that person those rights. Then
regardless of majority ruling or culture or change in attitudes or economic
standing, that human would always have those rights.
Now of course, people can illegally and unjustly violate your God
given rights, but no one truly has the authority to take them away. A king
cannot justifiably take them away because who gave him his right to be king,
he got it by force or by genetics. The majority cannot justifiably take them
away. Powerful evil men may repress you, but they cannot change the fact that
you have those rights. Your economic status cannot change them. Culture
cannot change them. Attitudes cannot change them. Time cannot change them.
Only a Being who has authority over the entire human race can change
them. And there is only one such Being.
One of the major concerns of politics is rights, which is directly tied
to true justice. But rights come from God; therefore politics must be
concerned with God. There is no way to avoid this connection. Moreover, this
works both ways, because the minute anyone argues that rights are not granted
by God, they are in the unenviable position of trying to argue that African
slaves never really had rights. It is just that a bunch of nice white people
decided out of the kindness of their hearts to give these poor black slaves and
brown Indians some rights. Of course, this is a despicable racist position, but it
is the logical conclusion of the faulty premise. As we know and believe, the
rights of the slaves were given to them by God, and contrary to that, the
government during the 1800’s violated these human beings’ pre-existing Godgiven
rights. We all recognize the immorality of it. Even my atheist friends
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