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Originally Posted by awareness

The folks living between the rivers didn't like Native American Indians, until they learned their American government could do to them what it did to the First Nation Peoples.

As a result those driven out from between the rivers, and later generations, don't tend to trust or like government.

Christians should be that way. I know Paul said all governments are ordained of God. But writing to Rome, I think he said that to keep the Roman authorities from getting riled at him for converting the pagans away from worshiping their gods.

Besides, maybe God ordained governments back then, but not now, here in America, where our democratic system of government determines who our leaders are.

In the days of Daniel Boone anyone could try to live in a world disconnected from human government. Those days are gone. We have billions of people. Not thousands or millions. You cannot live apart from an organized society, and regardless of the structure of that organization there will be a "government".

Unbeknownst to most people they leave over 200 digital footprints each day. There is no anonymity, no independence.

Government is essential, yet look how disappointing most leaders are. Dictators manufacture a story, so they may seem like a "great leader" at the time, only for historians to later reveal the little man behind the curtain.

The real problem we have is not designing the constitution, but finding the leaders. We assume that if we have a good enough constitution then the people don't matter, yet the last 200 years has proved this is false.

This of course is the point of the NT. In the gospels we learn who the Lord is, and in the epistles we learn who the servants are.