Governor Christie, the Central Planner.
Deconstructing the Coliseum: Teaching the Christian worldview, including how the civil government has no God-given right to operate a school system.
An online article from the Courier-Post highlights a new after school dinner program at some schools in Camden, NJ. Governor Christie announced the new after school dinner program on January 23, 2014, the date of the online article.
President Ronald Reagan used to say that civil government is not the solution, it is the problem. He was right, not because he was a Christian, but because he was asserting the Christian worldview.
The civil government’s duties owed to God are to deter and redress evil, and commend good. That is it. While those sound like unclear guidelines, they are not. The guidelines themselves are clear, especially when in context with the guidelines given to the self government, family government, and church government. There is a reason that conservatism clings to a small civil government: under the Christian paradigm the family government and church government do the bulk of the work. It is the family government and church government that are responsible for feeding people, including the poor.
When a humanist like Chris Christie says the civil government should be feeding children, he is just living according to his worldview. He thinks man is the ultimate authority and man exercises that ultimate authority through the civil government, via physical power.
The Christian on the other hand says Jehovah is the ultimate authority and Jehovah exercises that ultimate authority through the family government and church government – the Holy Spirit, which is spiritual power. By the way, this illustrates how politics can never be severed from religion: because your religion informs your politics.
When the civil government does things they are not supposed to do they do not solve problems, they cause problems.