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From: "dmolnar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I expect that Marcel Popescu will rise to this, but...
:)
> Another way of looking at this is to recognize God's authority as so
> important that merely human authority must fall by the wayside. Then
> reject the notion of a theocracy run by human priests. Emphasise the
> responsibility and right of every man to follow God on his own.
Yes. Very good. I could bring up the issue of ownership (the Universe was
created by God), but I'd rather say that "right" is a human construction,
and that everything God does / says is right by definition. There are also
other approaches.
All in all, I see no conflict. Worse, every government is trying to usurp
God's role as Lord (ruler), just as every priest (that exists now) is trying
to usurp his role as Savior. [That's why I fail to understand why there
aren't more Christian anarchists...]
> Leo Tolstoy is considered by some (including Peter Marshall, _Demanding
> the Impossible : A History of Anarchism_) to be an anarchist because of
> this sort of position.
Yes, I've read about that too (unfortunately, I never got to read anything
by Tolstoy himself).
> I suppose you could say that this isn't "true anarchism" because it
> recognizes the existence of some supreme power in God. Neither does it
> seem to deal well with unbelievers (although I am not that well informed
> on it). Still, it seems at least as hostile to earthly States as any other
> form of anarchism.
Yep. Usurping God's role is evil. <g> Breaking his commandments, too.
> Look at what happened to Lloyd's of London.
What happened?
Mark
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