Ragnar Redbeard wrote a book called “Might Is Right” and I could not agree more with that idea. He who is strongest makes the rules. And of course that Strong Man is the Lord I serve. One of Jesus’ names is the Captains of the Lord’s Hosts (Armies).
I have written elsewhere that God is not God because God is good, but rather God is good because God is God. Might Makes Right is simply a corollary of that. And this ties directly into the legitimacy of violence. God does not meet some external standard of “goodness,” God sheds goodness and rightness like we shed hair and dry skin. What is good is a byproduct of Him — Goodness and Rightness are derivatives of Him, not some universal external (to God) standard.
I wonder at those who interest themselves in asking Christians whether or not they eschew violence. Because (they imply), a Christian would never impose his will by force. (As if God would not impose His will by force — of course He will!)
Governments and politicians with police, soldiers, and an industrial scale prison system rule by, with, and through violence. For them to ask a somone — “do you eschew violence?” is the cougar asking the bunny if it promises to never defend itself.
Politicians covet armed guards as symbols of rank and the might to remain in power. No President or Congressman that I know of has ever asked their body-guards to disarm and stand down. When they ask citizens to disarm, they seek subjects to rule, not citizens to represent.
Those politicians are not against violence — they seek their own monopoly of violence — their goal is absolute power through which they alone define what is “right.”
Might makes right. …
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