Jim Fedako of Anti-Positivist has a fantastic post describing the two groups that a typical state-worshiper falls into: the morons and the bobbleheads.

Both groups like to forget (or never learn about) economics, and both like to ignore reality.

The moron sees the problems in his life and automatically prays to the government to take care of it, without trying to think of any other solution, while the bobblehead constantly nods, giving way to the peer pressure and purely emotional appeals the morons attempt to affect.

All the current presidential candidates simply have to focus on the morons. You got a problem? We’ll solve it! The bobbleheads will naturally follow.

These are the groups that our education system creates with it’s preaching and government evangelism. And like Fedako, it took me awhile to strip off the layers of moron-mucus that public education had encrusted to the lining of my brain. If you have any of the same junk still weighing you down from your true potential, do not despair. There is hope.

But the main reason I want to draw your attention to Fedako’s post, however, is the quote he has from Frank Chodorov’s The Need of a Golden Calf, which highlights one of the main themes of this blog:

“Is not the State an idol? Is it not like any graven image into which men have read supernatural powers and superhuman capacities? The State can feed us when we are hungry, heal us when we are ill; it can raise wages and lower prices, even at the same time; it can educate our children without cost; it can provide us against the contingencies of old age and amuse us when we are bored; it can give us electricity by passing laws and improve the game of baseball by regulation. What cannot the State do for us if only we have faith in it? And we have faith. No creed in the history of the world ever captured the hearts and minds of men as has the modern creed of Statism.”

This “modern creed of Statism” is exactly what many Christians have unknowingly affirmed by placing faith in government.

Don’t want gays to get married? Pray to the government! Don’t want women aborting their pregnancies? Pray to the government! Want to help the poor? Pray to the government! After all, if the government takes care of it, we can absolve ourselves from the responsibility of actually doing anything. It’s the easy way out.

And everyone else is doing it. Everyone else wants to use the power and implicit violence of government to accomplish their own agendas. It’s the popular things to do.

Christians aren’t meant to be bobbleheads. They were meant for something greater than bowing down with the rest of the masses. Being the light of the world means bravely standing strong, and showing that there is a better way of doing things.

Both Jesus and history have shown us that forceful coercion and implicit threats of violence, government’s main methods of operation, are not the better ways of getting things done.

This new golden calf must meet a fate similar to the first one: melt it down and grind it into fine powder.

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