Comments on: Pundits Unite: Luther and Menno on Bush’s 2005 Proposals http://www.rustyparts.com/wp/2005/04/08/pundits-unite-luther-and-menno-on-bushs-2005-proposals/ : Blogging Linear Interstellar Points : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:34:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: geordie http://www.rustyparts.com/wp/2005/04/08/pundits-unite-luther-and-menno-on-bushs-2005-proposals/comment-page-1/#comment-1248 geordie Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:49:36 +0000 http://www.rustyparts.com/wp/2005/04/08/pundits-unite-luther-and-menno-on-bushs-2005-proposals/#comment-1248 very interesting. good read. very interesting. good read.

]]> By: isaac http://www.rustyparts.com/wp/2005/04/08/pundits-unite-luther-and-menno-on-bushs-2005-proposals/comment-page-1/#comment-1243 isaac Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:05:33 +0000 http://www.rustyparts.com/wp/2005/04/08/pundits-unite-luther-and-menno-on-bushs-2005-proposals/#comment-1243 Isaac: Friends, I am wondering if ya'll thought about what "the state" means. It seems like there is no such thing as the state as such. I mean, every government appropriates different responsibilities and operates under such different circumstances that it seems like it doesn't help much to put them all under this ambiguous categorey called "state." Is it helpful to historicize the civil government that Paul addresses in Romans and see if whatever Paul called "the civil government" is the same sort of animal as what we call "states"? I know some political theorists these days talk about America as being "post-civil." ... Oh, my friend just walked in from the early 20th century. He wants to say something. Nietzsche: None of the measures effected by a government will be guaranteed continuity; everyone will draw back from undertakings that require tending for decades or centuries if their fruits are to mature... Private companies will step by step absorb the business of the state: even the most resistent reminders of what was formally the work of government (for example its activities designed to protect the private person) will in the long run be taken care of by private companies. (From "Human, All to Human). In other words, I told you so. Isaac: Friends, I am wondering if ya’ll thought about what “the state” means. It seems like there is no such thing as the state as such. I mean, every government appropriates different responsibilities and operates under such different circumstances that it seems like it doesn’t help much to put them all under this ambiguous categorey called “state.” Is it helpful to historicize the civil government that Paul addresses in Romans and see if whatever Paul called “the civil government” is the same sort of animal as what we call “states”? I know some political theorists these days talk about America as being “post-civil.” ... Oh, my friend just walked in from the early 20th century. He wants to say something.

Nietzsche: None of the measures effected by a government will be guaranteed continuity; everyone will draw back from undertakings that require tending for decades or centuries if their fruits are to mature… Private companies will step by step absorb the business of the state: even the most resistent reminders of what was formally the work of government (for example its activities designed to protect the private person) will in the long run be taken care of by private companies. (From “Human, All to Human).

In other words, I told you so.

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