I'm Shocked!

I don't know why but I have been listening to this guy on the radio lately [I know, I keep saying that I've banned myself from this activity] named Bob Enyart who just drives me nuts. He is a conservative Christian activist and pastor who is based out of Denver, CO. It is a show where he talks about current events and then people call in to discuss the issues with him.

He seems to me like he would be very happy if the whole world was dominated by politics that were directly influenced by Old Testament law. He was ranting yesterday about how many violent crimes could be traced back to sexual issues. His argument was that theft, drug slinging, murder, and a whole list of other things could be traced ultimately back to either pornography or illicit sex somewhere in the offender's life. His proposal was then also that perhaps we should start going back to making premarital sex and sex outside of marriage a punishable crime again. Now, I'm not going to say that I disagree with the fact that it might be an influence or that I am in favour of people just living sexually promiscuous lives, but how does this guy think that the government is going to be able track every sex related issue? Does this guy expect to have some kind of tactical team in place to go around like the Pharisees of Jesus' day looking for those committing adultery? Thankfully this guy is guy is only on 2 radio stations and on his own website as far as broadcasting goes because the scary thing is that there are many people who agree with much of what he says.

The other problem that I have with what he espouses though is that if you listen to him long enough and discern his words just right he really talks out of both sides of his mouth. He says that there are some things that are sin and then some sins that turn into crimes; and that it is not the government's job to punish sin, but it is their job to punish it when it becomes a crime. I don't necessarily disagree with him on that one except for the fact that many of his reasons for justifying this claim just don't follow through in regards to the rest of Jesus' teaching.

This guy says that it is a sin to covet but you can't arrest a guy for coveting, only for stealing- but I think that I remember Jesus saying that spiritually speaking, even coveting in one's heart makes them as guilty as actually stealing. Same with lust/adultery, hate/murder...etc. It seems to me that Jesus was confronting people just like this guy in his day and trying to show them the same thing that the Apostle Paul tried to tell the Romans- THE LAW IS SPIRITUAL AND SHOULD BE KEPT THAT WAY.

I think that it is a very dangerous thing when people try to use God as their justification to have a theonomic government. The lines just get too shady and before you know it you get people who are willing to enforce the law to too far of a degree.

But the whole point of this post is ultimately to get at the fact that I decided that I wanted to register myself as a user for his discussion board over at www.theologyonline.com

I started the registration process of choosing a username, a password, putting in my email address...and when I went to submit the registration info I was notified that my email address had already been banned by the administrator! I had never even been to that website before, never emailed him, never called into the show or anything; but already my email address was banned.

Have I made that much noise out on the Internet? I don't think it is possible. Not to mention that this guy doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would back down to some schlump like me. Who knows, maybe I'm on to something that is ahead of my time.