Doug Wilson

The second thing is, just touching on religious minorities and people who don't agree, the heritage of the West that we're trying to preserve, that we're fighting to preserve,

is the heritage that invented liberty of conscience.

That's our baby.

That's our legacy.

That's what we did.

It is the left that denies the right of personal conscience.

And so consequently, if we structured our laws in accordance with Scripture, if we recognize the God of the Bible, the God of the Bible tells us that we are not to promulgate our religious convictions by force.

We can...

our laws that require force, laws against murder and rape and so on, need to have a transcendental foundation.

But that doesn't mean that you get to prosecute sins as though they were crimes.

So in Christian theology, there's a distinction between a sin and a crime.

I believe that crimes ought to be biblically defined, and we ought to leave a vast swath of sins alone.

There's

So I don't want to establish a covetousness police, right?

Covetousness is a sin, and it's a very serious sin.

It's in the Ten Commandments.

But I don't want covetousness police.

Yeah, so the answer to that would be Bible study.

So, for example, if you read the Bible carefully, there are certain things that the Bible prohibits and which the Bible attaches a civil penalty to.

There are other things that the Bible prohibits, but there's no civil penalty attached to it at all.