[FrankR]

yet another leftist attempt to redefine and villify the TEA party movement...ignore them.

[loveliberty2]

"Wallis the preacher might disagree with Ivan but graciously allows for “the reality of sin in all human institutions” and thus the need for government control.

And where, pray tell, does the "preacher" find the persons to run and administer the government who are without "sin"? Why is it that he believes some imperfect persons in positions of power in government will make better or more virtuous decisions than all the other imperfect persons they control?

[mcswan]

The Grand Inquisitor goes on to mock Christ for the free will inherent in His message.

"But let me tell Thee that now, to-day, people are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet. But that has been our doing. Was this what Thou didst? Was this Thy freedom?"

I have used this scene as the basis of more than one sermon. Wallis, as usual, is way off base. Any system that subordinates the free will of the individual to the larger purposes of the state - laying our freedoms at the feet of government for the common good as percieved by elites - is profoundly un-Christian.