Anger is binding, not freeing. Humans are a creature of fellowship, created with tendencies that find their fulfillment in a variety of natural groupings, each concerned with a certain facet of human’s life in society. One of those groupings was church, another the state. Church and state are differentiated primarily by reference to their different tasks. The concern of the church is the spiritual realm, the life of the inner human, the concern of the state is the temporal realm, the regulation of external conduct. In regulate external conduct, the general aim of the state is to ensure justice or equity in society at large. This equity has two facets. Obviously, the state must enforce restrictive justice, but the state should also secure distributive justice, doing its best to eliminate gross inequalities in the material status of its members. If the Senate makes a weak person weaker, it makes a strong person stronger, owing to the very temptations one must resist from the day one enters, the compromises one is forced to make, and the danger to one’s convictions from the subtler brains of others. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 5

You speak the Lord loving his own; you make out the Lord to be your own, and use your religion like a drug. There are some remains of religion left in the human mind, even after every moral sentiment hath abandoned it; the most execrable ruffian finds means to quiet the suggestions one one’s conscience, by some reversionary hope of Heaven’s forgiveness. It is the duty of the church to seek the welfare of the state, but equally it is the duty of the state to seek the welfare of the church. Thus, part of the state’s duty is to promote piety; and it is generally regarded that blasphemy is a civil crime. However, the church and state ought to be structurally independent of each other. Church officials are not, by virtue of their office, to have any official voice in the state; and state officials are not, by virtue of their office, to have any official voice in the church. There are none whose conduct should be so strictly watched as that of bailiffs, these necessary evils in the society, as their office concerns for the most part those poor creatures who cannot do themselves justice, and as they are generally the worst of people who undertake it. Good laws should execute themselves in a well-regulated state. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 5

Although the best forms of government will vary with circumstances, it is firmly believed that the ideal government would be a republic in which those of the aristocracy who are competent to rule are elected by the citizenry, and in which powers is balanced and diffused among a number of different magistrates. The magistrate has their authority from God. In a sense of their authority is God’s authority; for magistrates are ministers of Divine justice, vicegerents of God. Thus, the duty of the magistrate is to apply the law of God, implanted on the hearts of all and clarified in the Scriptures, to the affairs of civil society. To what extent and under what circumstances are regarded as civil disobedience as justified is a matter of debate. Where our self-interest sleeps and the real interest is awakened. God writes our new name only on those places in our lives where the Lord has erased our pride, self-sufficiency, and self-interest. Some of us have our new names written only in certain spots, like spiritual air. And in those areas of our lives we look all right. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 5

A true hearted lover forgets all trespasses, and a smile cureth the wounding of a frown. However, do not dare look at us when we are not in the mood. A true disciple is one who has one’s new name written all over themselves—self-interest, pride, and self-sufficiency have completely erased. What is clear is that the law of nature is regarded in some sense a standard by which the decisions of the magistrate are to be judged, and at the same time regarded revolutions which rip apart the entire fabric of human society as not to be condoned. A secure attachment combined with the cultivation of competency builds an internal locus of control, the key factor in healthy coping throughout life. Securely attached children learn what makes them feel good; they discover what makes them (and others) feel bad, and they acquire a sense of agency: that their actions can change how they feel and how others respond. Securely attached children of God learn the difference between situations they can control and situations where they require help. They learn that they can play an active role when faced with difficult situations. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 5

In contrast, people with histories of abuse and neglect and abuse learn that their terror, pleading, and crying do not register with their caregiver. Nothing they can do or say stops the beating or brings attention and help. In effect, they are being conditioned to give to when they face challenge later in life. There are enough negative influences in our life without adding more. Especially when we look at the fact that all emotions generate vibrational energy in the Universe, what is the point of surrounding ourselves with negative thought forms about those we view as enemies? Why go out of our way to hold onto them as enemies by stockpiling resentments and negativity in ourselves? Likely, when we review our own personal experiences, we will see relinquishing anger brings us many benefits. We are free to experience emotional comfort and ease, gratitude for the daily opportunities to grow and heal, mutual caring with another without subtle special demands or limitations that affects something such as an agreement, improvement in health, and more life energy. These breakthroughs allow us to move up to a more effective and effortless state of state of inner freedom. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 5