Skavau
IB Veteran
- Messages
- 907
- Reaction score
- 32
State is important, but God is and should be always more important than state/country. Treating state higher than God is idolatry.
Of course it doesn't mean that state is not important at all, It's very important, but we should know the correct hierarchy.
God, family, nation.
Well these are your beliefs and you are welcome to them. However, in actuality whether a nationstate believes it represents the viewpoint of God or not, it would always disagree with your hierarchy. If you, under the premise of deeming God more worthy of obedience that the objectives a state engage in civil disobedience of some sort, you can expect an appropriate response by the state. The state always, and not always with malovelent or totalitarian intent views itself as necessarily the highest order.
A moral state won't ask you to sell out your family for its own gain, but that same state would still wish to take you to justice if you had committed a crime within its boundaries irrespective of your religious beliefs or your family's objections.