You cannot legislate morality. I have heard that phrase repeated often throughout my lifetime. It must be true. Vladimir Lenin, the founder of Russian Communism, said “a lie told often enough becomes the truth.” I recently came across a Christian minister who repeated that phrase to me and expressed that he believed it was true. How have we gotten so confused? Is it immoral to shop lift? If we cannot legislate morality, does that mean we cannot have a law that makes shoplifting illegal? If our laws are not based on moral principles they are of no value. Most laws do in fact legislate morality. If a law does not legislate morality the law is unnecessary. Do we really believe that the God of the Bible is the creator of the universe, and the creator of man? If so, doesn’t it stand to reason that we should look to our creator for moral guidance?
This book shows that for any government to bring prosperity, it must take into account man’s selfish nature. God’s law does this. Jesus did not do away with the law. Liberals argue that the Constitution prohibits the use of Biblical principles in government. However the result of following Biblical law is that the nation prospers. Government should reward good behavior and punish bad behavior. The commandments have the secular purpose of punishing damaging behavior. This book appeals to anyone interested in having the political, economic, and legal institutions of the United States modified to bring greater prosperity..
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YES! We should look to our Creator for our morality. However, Thanks to Christ’s death, we live under Grace..NOT the Law. If we legislate morality to the Nth degree, we only hold people under the Law and Christ’s sacrifice becomes moot.
American Christians Love to tell people how much they’re going to hell and they can’t go on sinning. Yet, fail to see the log in their own eye.
We must Stop judging sinners! Start showing Christ’s Love!!!
I love getting comments like this one, it shows the extreme need for this book. Any civil society must legislate morality. There must be laws that punish murder, rape, robbery , and other behavior that is damaging to society. Of necessity we will live under laws as long as we live. We will live by the law of the jungle where the strong and ruthless take advantage of others, or we will enforce some morality . Christ’s death has nothing to do with the civil law of a nation. However, Biblical law shows us our sin and our need for a savior. We do live under grace for our eternal salvation , but Christians do not have grace that allows them to harm others. The secular purpose of God’s law is to allow us to live together in peace and harmony with each other.
The spirit of this phrase is not “you cannot legislate morality” per se, but “you cannot legislate PERSONAL morality”. This does not apply to theft, rape, and murder. This applies to sexuality (between any two consenting adults), recreational intoxication (without driving, operating machinery, away from kids), spiritual practices, etc.
This is why drug laws have not slowed down drug use, but have only created a culture of violence tied to the lucrative underground drug trade that would not exist without the criminalization of said drugs.
Laws prohibiting homosexuality, witchcraft, masturbation, etc would not only be ethically wrong in a multicultural society, but would be impossible to enforce in any consistent or reasonable manner.
The phrase is almost always used in the context of victimless crimes.
There is a tendency to blame a law or prohibition against something as the reason for the development of an underground trade and the associated violence that accompanies that trade. We can look at the drug trade or the alcohol trade during the prohibition era and find two examples that support this. However, we fail to notice that the violence of the prohibition era continued after the laws were repealed. The violence wasn’t gang members killing one another, but consumers maiming and killing one another or maiming and killing non-consumers. Drug and alcohol impairment contributes to murder, rape, destruction of families, problems in schools, unwanted pregnancies, increased government and business costs to name a few.
These so-called “victimless crimes” leave a lot of victims in their wake. The violence does not stop, it only changes the form it takes and the victims it chooses.