Voting for Government to Take Other’s Property by Force
R.C. Sproul on Christians and Politics, Part Seven
“Today there is no shame in someone’s saying, ‘I’m voting my pocketbook.’ However, in order for the government to put money in people’s pocketbooks, that money first has to be taken from other citizens in order for them to receive it. The government does not produce anything; in other words, the government cannot give to someone what it does not first take away from someone else. When you vote for your own largesse, you are asking the government to use all its force to take from your brother and sister their private property and give it to you.”
R.C. Sproul, Acts: An Expositional Commentary (Sanford: Ligonier Ministries, 2019), 224.
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