The vile and noxious Giles Frasier C of E bigmouth is a good argument for disestablishment and on Today prog he was vomiting his usual totalitarian Marxism about taxation but with a Christian twist.The money we earn does not really belong to us but to God and taxation is simply an acknowledgement of this 'fact' and ergo politicians are merely carrying out God's work by taxing us.
No one could have drawn a more graphic illustration of the straight line between faith in an other dimensional deity and secular collectivist thought.The choice for man is therfor simple: bow the knee to a totalitarian God or its secular equivalent, the State.
As shocking and as obscene as Frasier's views undoubtedly are it is good to have them laid out so bare, in plain sight so one can see what one is dealing with. All the better to counter them with reason and show therby how such views are in existential conflict with individual rights and liberty ie the very requirements for human existence , survival, material prosperity and success.
The pitiful response from the Conservative Right to all this is to say yes, this celestial dictator does indeed own the human race but like a loving father he wants his children to be responsible and not dependent layabouts so he subjects them to tough love and discourages welfare dependency.This is to face both ways and represents an existential contradiction: man is born a slave and commanded to be free.
The only correct and consistent position to adopt is to say that man must be free from all coercion whether it come from another dimension in the form of a mystical entity or some earthly dictatorship of the state. No one appears to be doing this which represents a philosophical vaccum at the heart of political discourse.
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