Separation of Domain and State

The United States of America is the greatest country on earth. At the very least, it is one of the better ones. If you don't believe me, look what happens around the world when our country holds a presidential election. Everyone stops, everyone looks. For some unknown reason they feel like they have the right to weigh in, despite the fact that they are not citizens. When Canada gets a new prime minister, no one holds their breath. Canadians have often bragged to me about their country's superiority, upon which I ask them questions about their own government. They don't know the answer, and I let them know that neither do I. I then ask them questions about MY government, and they know all the answers. I think that pretty well speaks for itself.

That, and the fact that no one is guarding our borders to make sure those dirty Americans don't sneak into their country illegally.

And I have indeed agreed to live as part of this country. Yet. Our country has the unfortunate trait of being made up of millions of people, many of them unintelligent and/or gullible. We are a people with a short memory, and little backbone. We have huge balls, don't get me wrong. If you kick us in the teeth, we are right there to kill you and bury you in a hole, but once the fight becomes unpopular with the other kids, we just can't stick with it. We don't have what it takes to engage for more than a decade.

We are prone to fads. We love this or that new thing with all our hearts, no matter how impractical and unsensible it may be, we will jump full on board, at least, until it begins to cramp our style. We don't need any real science to get us along, you just need to give us a picture book that explains, in layman's terms (even if it is lying) why we should to X. And if your pictures are composed right, and you have a catchy theme music, we will ride along with you for as long as you want us.

All of this piles up to mean one thing: America is not a constant. The america we are today is not the america we were even five years ago. We totally reinvent ourselves at least every twenty years. So while I love my country, and at the moment would die for our country, I'm stuck on the preamble of the Constitiution: We The People...

America has great power, but! I have domain. America has much domain as well, but within america we each have a personal domain. For example. America can make all the laws about speeding that she wants. I have domain over my foot and my car. She can give me tickets and even take away my license and throw me in jail, but I still have domain, and in fact, so long as I aknowledge her authority, I'm even being Biblical.

This is important because there is a certain "Pushed too far" point. And it's unique to each individual. Mine is wearing thin. There is a list of things that we will not tolerate, now some people have no scruples or principles, they can be bought, and they will go along. They have an override price on their "Too Far Point" but I am a true believer. That is to say, there is no monetary or threat override on my TFP.

I cannot tolerate the killing of human fetuses. I despise the idea of any of my money going toward their destruction. I love Israel, and should America turn away from her, I will personally have to take up the slack. I care for my family and will protect them, lead them, and teach them our faith, no one else's. And in all of these places: my finances, my family, the beliefs that I hold: I have domain. When the USA tries to take this domain away from me, she has crossed her bounds. At that point, I will no longer support her, and at that point I will even be her enemy. Per the constitution, she would then cease to be what she is defined as.

The founding fathers thought it utterly necessary to make a point to say that America cannot go through my stuff without probably cause, how much LESS then, can she go through my children and ideaologies? Frankly, it is something I worry about, considering the party who elected the president and now controls both the Senate and the House seem to think that they can tell me what I can believe.

What they don't realize is they have crossed into a realm where they have no Domain. We would all do well to see where our domain lies, and more importantly, where it doesn't. There's lots of different kinds of domains, there are domains granted by physical priveledge, domains granted by ability to control, domains granted by authority, and they each hold a diferent level of control.

The bottom line I'm trying to make is this: The government has it's goals and it's level of control. But I have the RIGHT to make choices in my life, that includes breaking the law. That can even include declaring revolution in extreme cases and separating myself from my government. No matter what the law is, or the government is, I have domain in my life, and that means when I get to the ultimate ruler, that is what I will be responsible. In that day I cannot say "I was told by my king to go there and do thusly" because even then, I had domain.

This is why I must vote for laws wherever I see them to be right and good, even if they are not popular. This is why I want to know where my taxes go, because each cent I earn, I am accountable for. If the Government wants to fine me because I refuse to pay for morally irreprehensible acts, they may, but on that day, my conscience will be clear, and all who said "It's my government, not me." or "It's my neighbor, not me, what right have I to tell my neighbor what they ought do?" will find they had domain to tell their neighbor their thoughts, and even had the theatre of the voting booth in which to perform, and the bottom line is: they refused to support what they knew to be right where they had domain to support it.

We are not responsible for what others choose to do, but we are utterly accountable for what we choose to do about others. Regardless of laws and punishments, we still have domain and therefore the responsibility to live our very own lives the correct, good, and right way. Even if they kill us for it. Because when I stand before God, fear of earthly punishment will not be an adequate reason for allowing abominations to stand inside my domain.