Two classes of people

James Bovard, in a recent blog posting: http://jimbovard.com/blog/2010/11/10/statism-the-greatest-threat/ wrote:

"Trusting contemporary governments means dividing humanity into two classes: those who can be trusted with power to run other people’s lives, and those who cannot even be trusted to run their own lives. Modern Leviathans give some people the power to play God with other people’s lives, property, and domestic tranquility. Modern political thinking presumes that restraints are bad for the government but good for the people. The first duty of the citizen is to assume the best of the government, while government officials assume the worst of him."

Although Bovard does not write from a religious perspective, he has made a point that has religious implications. Where in the Bible can we find this division of humanity? New Testament Christianity makes exactly the opposite assumptions: that NO one can be trusted with power to run other people's lives, and that people are expected to run their own lives: i.e., that we humans have responsibility (to GOD) for what we do and say.

Thus we have another reason to reject "modern political thinking," as Bovard describes it.