Bringing it home to our point, we reject John Stuart Mill, not liberty. We reject Ayn Rand, not liberty. Indeed, if we understand what the Spirit of God is doing in the world (2 Cor. 3:17), we reject idolatrous accounts of individual freedoms because we love liberty. I look dubiously at the medicine man who shuffles around in a heathenish circle shaking his rattle, but I must still receive the rain with gladness. If I reject the rain because of the medicine man, then I am actually rejecting Christ (Acts 14:17).

via Look at All Those Alabaster Cities.

Wait no, I must add the conclusion even though it is not included in the point I was linking…:

If we accept the need for the kind of open Jesus-is-Lord-theocracy, of the kind argued for by Wilson, then bad things might start to happen.

Right. What might happen? If we bowed the knee to Jesus Christ, might we start murdering over a million kids in the womb a year? If we acknowledged Christ, might it lead to sodomite parades in the streets of our major cities? If we confessed that Jesus rose from the dead, might we suddenly be on the brink of of a major war in the Middle East? If we allowed that our government is junior to the government of Christ in Heaven, might we then rush to spend trillions of dollars we don’t have? This is a good point, certainly, and I never thought of it that way before. I can see why people wouldn’t want to turn away from the secular paradise we have built. I mean, look at all those alabaster cities out there, undimmed by human tears.

Reminds me of an accusation against anarchist libertarians claiming they are trying to repeal the 20th century. And the response: The era of mass murder in mass war and genocide? Who wouldn’t want to repeal that monster?