Pardon the Political Interruption

Liberals, be they Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Independents, or some other sort of tin-foil-hat-wearing goofballs are not operating with a Lutheran “world view”, shall we say?  By liberal, we mean those who seek to improve the attitudes of others through legislation and the threat of force.  For example, some believe that it is more “neighborly” or more “patriotic” on the part of selfish wealthy Americans to send more money in taxes to the government.  Forcing them to do so will not in fact make those people any more “neighborly” or “patriotic”.  It might make them more intent on finding creative ways to avoid paying taxes.  The root problems of greed and selfishness are not solved through legislation.  For a source more authoritative than a blog, please see St. Paul on this thought.  Actually, those root problems could be exacerbated by penalizing those who tend to be the ones hiring more workers and giving more money charitably, making them less apt to be neighborly to those around them in need what with the government promising to use their new tax gains to take care of the poor and needy, even those poor and needy individuals who make more cash per year than a half-dozen WELS pastors combined.  Yes, we should all give up and get on the gravy train that will soon be stopping in our respective small towns…well, at least those small towns that are accepting of abortion, socialism, and the mushy superficiality of the American generic religion of spirituality and not those which cling to their God and have guns at the ready for the first toaster-bearing bureaucrat who comes into sight.