Having said that, at least here in America, the citizen has the right and responsibility of self-government. I beg your indulgence on a matter of ‘Christian politics’, however.

As Davidson & Rees-Mogg posited ten years ago in “The Sovereign Individual”, technology is mooting institutions, including nation-states and their huge redistributionist machines. The same is occurring to other traditional ‘gatekeeper’ institutions: universities, colleges, seminaries, denominations.

As was the case when the incunabulum began educating new masses of prior ‘simpletons’, the world’s institutions have yet to come to grips with this blessing from God, but that it IS a blessing, there can be no doubt. And this revolution shall be more profound than even the birth of the printing press.

In my view, it’s disastrous to take a Constantinian view, that Christianity should be used for political ends; but that’s what careerists in the Christian Right have done for decades.

Perhaps more disastrous still is the thought of Christians to leave the field of civil duty (self-government under rule of law) as though it soils our hands. True, politics can save no one, and will never change anything. But as this socio- and geopolitical transition takes place, the Christian’s duty for righteous self-government by enforcing the law will be critical to reclaiming God’s manifest blessings in our communities and our 50 States.

Click on my name for just one idea of a way to lawfully, peacefully bring a new balance to the civil government in America by using one simple principle: we can and should hold corrupt officials accountable before the law, in the courts of the STATES, and not at the federal level. This is the most straightforward application of the Supremacy Clause that one can imagine: the people and the States enforcing the Constitution, against those who have trampled it.

Another very “radical” action that a law-abiding, Christ-following American can take is to support “Tax Honesty”, a growing 40-year-old movement the principles of which which I explain in detail at the American Glasnost blog on Blogspot.

Most of the major figures in the Tax Honesty movement are Christians, and some of the most passionate ones are former IRS personnel. Yet strangely, pastors and elders are the first to recoil at the idea of Tax Honesty, crying “render unto Caesar!”

Why? Because every 501c3 fears losing its revenue stream when people stop running from the IRS, and begin simply demanding that Congress and the IRS OBEY the LAW! An estimated 67 million of us have walked away from the largest financial fraud in history, but pastors and elders are notably absent from this exodus. Interesting.

Along with removing our kids from government schools and leaving counterfeit churches, Tax Honesty is one of the most critical Christian issues in America today, in practical terms.

It doesn’t merely change a family’s economic picture — for many this would mean bringing Mommy home from her career paying Daddy’s IRS bill — it also can one day change the calculus of 300 million people striving for liberty and self-government under the rule of law amidst a $3 trillion per year Leviathan State with multiple layers of defenses in the private ‘parasite’ sector.

The financial embargo of corruption also makes millions of foreigners a great deal safer from attack by what President Eisenhower called “the Military-Industrial Complex”. It also hastens the day of reckoning for the political class that created an illegal, worthless U.S. Dollar.

Politicians really can do next to nothing; a remnant people can do much, but only if our heart is trained on Christ and His righteousness, not on politics. The ‘Ron Paul Revolution’ isn’t about one statesman against hundreds of politicians; it reflects a deep-seated longing among millions of Americans for justice, mercy, and an end to the madness.

As politics — another false god — topples, let us not expect Utopia in a vacuum. Defection from the status quo ante is a very good plan, brother; but there is still a civil, economic, and legal/constitutional aspect to life in Christ here in America.

As I posit in my upcoming book “This Bloodless Liberty” (shameless plug!) these are civic duties that wilt the hearts of religious men. Yet millions are finding liberation from failed or corrupt institutions of ‘Church’, State, school, and corporation.

You can too; but intestinal fortitude and due diligence is demanded. Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.” In the public square as well as the Church, we’re increasingly seeing the truth of this.

As nation-states grow increasingly moot or ineffectual in cyberspace, politics will take different forms; but sin and corruption we will always have with us. While voting becomes increasingly pointless, citizen enforcement at the State judiciary level, of the Law of the Land, against corrupt federal politicians and bureaucrats — will become increasingly important if we are to avert much harder things ahead. Only by the grace of God will cataclysm not logically follow our centuries of rebellion.

By all means, defect from the ancien regime, but don’t walk away from your citizen duty in Scriptural and constitutional context.

Blessings on your house.