Over the past four years, says Joe, the battle in the West has actually been over who has ultimate authority: are we under the authority of Christ, or the authority of man?
“What we’ve seen in the West in the past four years … is the increased emergence of a totalitarian view of government – it’s been a shock to the Western world,” comments Joe. “Totalitarianism essentially means that all of society – the family, the church, business enterprise, medicine, etc. – are seen as departments of the state … which means you can create an environment in which the Church can be shut down indefinitely by the state, because it belongs to the state.”
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