Annals of Soft-Despotism

Regulating Rodent Love

The Christian faith has its believers professing from the heart, "The Lord will provide".  The modern, Unbelieving substitute is, "The Government will provide", which is idolatry, pure and simple.  God is not mocked.  When a culture turns away from the Living God to an idol, one of the divine indictments is to expose that idol to mockery.  A demonstration of the impotence of the idol, on the one hand, and a display of the dull stupidity of its devotees, on the other, is the standard divine approach. 

So, it is our duty as Christians to be active in sending up the idols of our age to the courts of mockery.  The incompetence of the State to be as God to us is to be displayed, described, and ridiculed at every opportunity.  Not the State in its legitimate functions, mind you--where it acts not to provide health, education, and welfare for all, but to administer retributive justice to the evil doer, and judge civil disputes with equity and fairness.  But we are addressing the State as idol, where it rears up to replace God in the mind and hearts of citizens.

Here is the latest folly from the "Master", our all governing, beneficent, all-wise, providential government--this time addressing the vitally important manner of rat control, definitely in need of rules, regulations, procedures, protections, and punishments.