We (especially since at the moment the U.S. is “the
most powerful nation on earth”) must guard against a disastrous assumption—the “Right
to Rule” assumption. Before the Civil
War there was a set belief among the aristocracy of the South that they had a
right to rule over slaves as well as dispossessed southern whites. This was a grand assumption taught to privileged
children and youth so that by early adulthood airs of command were firmly
established. We should never let power
go to our heads and imbue us with arrogance and its misplaced sense of destiny. We should remember in human affairs no one
has a “Right to Rule” based upon some sort of inheritance. Sunday’s should remind us that only God has
the right to rule. We must learn to acquiesce
to him and his laws. And, of course, “being
Christian or religious” is also not a “Right to Rule.” All mankind—including the faithful—is humbled
before the ways of God. “The Right to
Rule” as an inherent human aspect is based upon fantasy, not fact.
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