Thus far, the last decade of 20th century America has been characterized by the senseless destruction of a country ( Yugoslavia ) and over one million of its inhabitants ( Iraq ), and the outrageous murder of human beings and destruction of nearly a billion dollars' worth of property by racists in Los Angeles. This is keeping with the rest of the century - the most atheistic and the most violent in human history .
In contrast, the first decades of America [1] were characterized by the drafting of legal penal codes which were taken verbatim from the Bible , such as the Body of Liberties adopted in 1641 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony , which explicitly provided that no law was to be prescribed contrary to the Word of God, and was annotated with appropriate Scripture references by John Cotton. Crime was low; the country prospered.
Romans 13 and the Christian Anarchist