Sunday, December 13, 2009

God and government

The role of government is to protect people's rights . Governments don't give rights. God gives rights and he has allowed governments as an agents that will protect the rights of the citizens. The government  is there as an overseer to hold accountable those people who break the law.
         Political process and governments are limited to this and so many other things. They can never create a perfect order.They cannot usher in any utopia. Many governments have taken away many basic rights of their people. The communist governments in China , North Korea and Cuba are good examples. Here Government decides what rights the people keep. There are no elections. There is no freedom of expression , freedom of dissent , freedom of worship. Any such move is eyes with suspision and the suspect is taken to a secret place to teach them the right way to think.The Islamic governments are no less in their violation of human rights.Every islamic government is based on Islamic law and enforcement of religious law on the people .Religion by it's very nature cannot be forced given or taken away. The supression of religious freedom for non muslims is important aspect of Islamic law. This can also be seen with Roman Catholic involvement and abuse of political power. But in contrast , in any non catholic Christian majority country, egUSA,UK,AUS you will see freedom of religion , freedom of speech , freedom of dissent recognized as basic human right. True religion can neither be forced in or out of a person. It's a relationship he has with God and he has no problem going to heaven if the governments chose to send him there.in India it is the non religious nature of the constituition which makes it possible for most if not all of india to enjoy religious freedom. Hinduism by nature is discriminative and would never have formed a basis for a constituition that was fair. Casteism of hinduism is a core social doctrine and any hindu society without caste would be unimaginable. Casteism denies that all human beings are born equal. It denies that they have equal rights. That is why the authors of the constituition abolished casteism as unlawful and granted equal rights to all indian citizens which was based on the british system which in turn was based on the british common law derived from the bible .So the India indirectly has benefitted from the biblical world view and wihout  the rights i have as of today , india would be one of the most unliveable societies on earth , courtesy the caste system and fatalism .

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