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Illegitimate Times

Blog & Mablog

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to blog and May blog from Doug Wills.com.

0:04.4

This audio is brought to you by Canon Press.

0:08.0

Douglas Wilson's new novel Ecocondriacs is available at cannon press.com and if you're interested in the

0:15.8

audio you can head to the cannon app where we are publishing chapters of it

0:20.8

week by week. Get the cannon app in the App Store of your choice. Illigitimate Times January 6th 2021. Introduction

0:40.4

So it is looking as though one way or another we are going to have to learn how to live under a government we believe to be at bottom illegitimate.

0:46.5

And that looks to be the case no matter what happens today, actually, which happens to be January 6th, the day when Congress ratifies the votes of the Electoral College.

0:55.5

If Biden is confirmed, which seems likely, a very large number of Americans will believe he

0:59.9

got there by fraudulent means.

1:02.3

And if Trump is confirmed by some sort of

1:04.0

extraordinary long shot that irregular process whatever it was will be

1:07.9

considered by a very large number of Americans to have been fraudulent in a

1:11.9

very different way.

1:13.0

And even though a larger number of Christians will be in the first group,

1:16.0

our numbers in both groups will not be insignificant.

1:19.0

And so here we are.

1:21.0

How are we to conduct ourselves under a government we believe to be illegitimate?

1:25.6

What principles should we remember?

1:28.6

Define some things first.

1:30.8

Governments can be either good or evil, and governments can also be legitimate or illegitimate.

1:35.8

Those are not synonymous alternatives.

1:38.1

So this gives us a set of four possible combinations.

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