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What Are Laws?
If someone tells you to do something against your conscience, don’t comply. If someone uses coercion or intimidation to force your hand, stand tall. But if someone lashes out at you, be calm. If someone strikes you, turn the other cheek. If someone arrests you, go peacefully. Do not resist any evil done to you, but do not accept their coercion or their tyranny.
O.U.R. Rescue Highlight
Most people in America today believe that slavery has been eradicated, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Based on statistics from UNICEF and from Shared Hope, about 73 million children under the age of twelve are forced laborers and about 2 million children are sex slaves [1][2].
New Alien and Sedition Act
On Thursday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and co-sponsor Sen. Ben Ray Lujan introduced a bill that would make social media companies liable for misinformation, especially misinformation on COVID-19 vaccines [1]. Currently, these social media companies, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, are exempt from legal action for posts made to their websites by users as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.
Respect For Authority Part 2: How are Christians to live?
"If they command anything against [his will], it must be as nothing to us. And in this instance we must ignore all that dignity that magistrates possess." - Jean Calvin
Respect for Authority Part 1: The Order of Authority
If I am to be consistent in my belief system, I must understand how I can believe that both of these things are true: (1) It is my duty to respect those in authority over me and (2) The Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War that followed were just reactions to King George III's tyranny.
Is Price Gouging Is Unjust?
In a free market system, the market drives the price. If the market doesn't accept your price, you either lower the price or cease offering that product. If one gas station "overcharges" for gas, the one down the street may offer a lower price.
Was Jesus Nice?
Don't assume that I came to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's enemies will be the members of his household. - Matthew 10:32-36