N.C. blogger Mamahadeen shows why we have to continue to explain the truth about freedom, even to our friends in nominally free countries. They simply don’t get it:
While we were chatting, the conversation turned to the state of the church and by way of explanation, the relationship of the citizens to their government in a communist tyranny I have personal knowledge of. My fellow Christian asked didn’t they have elections in that country and I answered that ostensibly, yes, they do, but that they made no difference whatsoever in the government as you had no choice who to vote for. This serious, intelligent brother then said, “Well, I don’t see that it is any different there than it is in the United States!” …
I pointed out that we were sitting out in the open, worshiping God together. That no one in America was afraid to worship or evangelize for fear of going to jail. That no one had been tortured for preaching. That no one in America was afraid of speaking the truth for fear there would be a knock on his door that night. That people had the right to choose their education and occupation. That we had the freedom to even abandon all institutional schools and teach our children ourselves … That we had the right to vote against politicians we disagreed with and see them lose their seat. “What in the world do you mean there is no difference?”
He’d never thought of it that way. …
Read the whole thing here.
