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    Diana Butler Bass on the appropriate Protestant response to the "big v small government" argument.

    First, for far too long, the secular argument about government has been “small” government versus “big” government. Protestant theology, however, offers a completely different insight. It isn’t the size of government that is problematic—the issue is whether government is good or bad. Good government reflects the principles of neighborliness, creates a sense of common benefit, serves and listens to all of its people. Bad government serves only itself or an elite, cut off from any idea of a common good, and works to maintain its interests instead of an ethical vision for society. Protestants would do well to protest against bad government, and not simply take sides in a false argument between small and big government. We need to protest for good government.

    • 30 October 2011
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    4 months ago Beloved Spear responded:
    Darn tootin', Landon. Good government does more than that, though. It also insures that those who are powerful...be they "elites" or the "corporate persons" that dominate our landscape...do not impinge on the liberty of those of us who aren't as powerful or as privileged. A few thoughts on that in my link, if yer interested...
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