Government: A Christian Institution
Governments, wherever in the world, are expected to obey the Word of God. They are not neutral entities existing outside of religion and culture. They are either protecting and preserving life, which is their function, or they are degrading and destroying life.
Stand and Behold!
We tend to believe, as modern humans do, that we are not affected by the things around us, that we can always retreat into our minds. But, as Tolstoy noted with piercing insight in describing Stepan, we absorb much more than we think we do from the world around us.