The provincial governments of Quebec and Nova Scotia are following Newfoundland and Labrador's "groundbreaking" lead in banning cellphone use while driving. Another step toward the bleak cliff of tyranny. I love it when our governments tell us what we can and can't do. This instance seems trivial compared with what they could try to do. But I believe that we should not allow them to have any gains in oppressing our freedoms. If we let them get away with this what stops them from saying we can't eat chili unless its on a Sunday and there is a blue moon or installing a one child policy. Maybe the jump from cell phone bans to one child polices seems like a gigantic leap. I fear that if the temptation is there, they will deluded themselves into believing it is for the betterment of the people so it should be done. If we are unwilling to make a stand now to protect our freedoms when will we?
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Good job on a well thought out post. There really is no limit to what our evil government is capable of doing. Who knows, maybe next they will stop us from exercising our natural right to drive while drunk or drugged out of our minds. That nonsense about driving while on a cellphone being as dangerous as driving drunk makes about as much sense as not allowing people on sedatives operate heavy machinery. We really should strike down the evil regime before they reduce us to a group of safe, responsible drivers. Good thing democracy allows the people to make real changes in the governmental process; at least until they put a stop to that unsafe idea.
The government would not make radical changes like you suggested because they want to be voted in again. If the government really restricted the people's rights the government would be voted out for someone else who would return the rights. Besides, no Prime minister in their right mind would expect to be voted in again after a chili ban.
I agree with the intent of the post before.
We've allowed the governement to have far too much power. Shame on us really. We've chosen to let them interfere with the church, the family, and other areas that were never meant to be their jurisdiction. The socialist movement flies in the face of what God had planned for the role of the government. The government was only supposed to punish evil and condone good as defined by the Bible. The government wouldn't feel they needed to make a law about cell phones if they hadn't already interfered with seatbelts, car seats, not to mention what makes up a family, how you can or can not discipline your kids, etc, etc.
Cell phones are irritating to some degree but the bigger picture is, world needs to stop relying on the government to tell them what is right and wrong. It was never meant to be their job.
My friend Jacob. There is a difference between the government telling you what you can do and you employer telling you what you can do while you are at work. Besides you can't expect governments laws to make people better drivers if anything it makes them worse.
My friend's brother. The government does not restrict the freedoms in one big leap but a series of small steps that the people hardly notice soon they have no freedoms left.
Governator
Gov,
Your right, we give away our freedoms bit by bit without even knowing we're doing it. Then the more power we give the government the more we ask them to do for us. We stop being able to make decisions for ourself because we've have been brainwashed into thinking the government knows better than we do how we should take care of ourself, our kids, and so on.
It's really odd that people seem to appreciate government interference in every facet of their lives.
I wonder if your opinions would be a little different if you had lost a close friend or family member to someone who was distracted by talking on a cellphone. I do believe not being allowed to drive drunk and not being allowed to operate machinery while using sedatives are both government regulations. I also believe that when the government introduces something that "restricts our freedoms" in order to save our lives and it makes sense it is fine. It is a little different than something that just harms peoples lives. Personally I do not want the stupidity of others to kill me , my friends, or my family. Also I would like to know where it says in the Bible that government should commit negligence and not try to stop people from getting killed in car accidents.
I think if you look at what the post is actually about, it's a far bigger issue that cell phones while driving. Cell phones are not actually the problem. The problem is we let the government tell us that wearing a seatbelt was manditory because we didn't know how to keep ourselves safe. We also believed them when they told us we didn't have any idea how to raise our kids properly and spanking became an offence. Then we allowed them into our church and home to tell us who qualifies as a family and what we must accept and condone despite the biblical principles the country was founded on. Do you get where I'm going here? It's a far bigger picture than cell phones.
Yes I have known people who have died or killed from drinking and driving, talking on the cell phone and driving, or reaching for a piece of paper or smoke they dropped while driving. I think people are getting dumber and losing their sense of reason because they've don't have to have any sense and reason anymore because the government is going to tell them what is and isn't safe, is or isn't ethical, or is or isn't right. God determines what is and isn't right, the government just decided they were God and to ignore the principles He'd given them.
Sometimes you have to look past the post to see the actual issue. That or become one of the ones losing their sense and reason as their sitting on their rumpus waiting for the government to tell them what's right and wrong.
Look it is obvious to me that being distracted in general while driving is unsafe so I try to avoid it but the fact is others do not and I do not blame that on the government. The difference in this case is that this law protects other drivers lives. I do not believe the government has any right to meddle in church affairs and only in family lives to stop true abuse (not spanking). I would blame the lack of common sense in people on society now in general not the government. The laws the government passes are just a product of our already deranged society. I agree that there are areas the government should not meddle with but I do not believe reducing the amount of automobile crashes is one of them. I am also still waiting for the verses from the bible because that is the only thing that might change my opinion.
Proverbs 16:10 The lis of a king speak as an oracle, and his mouth should not betray justice (from notes, speak as an oracle, in judging cases brought before him, a king functioned as God's representative therefore needed the devine gift of wisdon to descern between right and wrong)
Romans 9:17 For the Scriptures says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth"
Deut 17:16-20 The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of the, for the Lord has told you, "You are not to go back that way again" He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold. When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of THIS law, taken from that of the priests, who are Levites. It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees and not consider himself better than his brothers and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reigh a long time over his kingdom in Israel."
When the Israelites asked God for a King he warned them
1Samuel 8:10-20 Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. Some he will assign to be his commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. He will take a tenth of your flocks and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes you will cry out for relief from the king you have hosen, and the Lord will not answer you in that day." But the people refused to listen to Samuel. "no" they said. "We want a king over us. Then we will be like all other nations with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles"
So as you can see they were dumb enough to hear the consequenses of what would become of a ruler and still chose to have one. We're just as dumb to continue to want to take the governments word on what is right and wrong.
Romans 13 3-4
For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? The do what is right and he will commend you. For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.
So in a word they are there to commend good and punish bad.
I am tired of typing now. I also would like to emphasize what I was trying to say regarding this isn't about cell phones!! It's about what the government's job is supposed to be. Perhaps biblically talking on the cell phone and driving should be punished. What I'm trying to say though is that by giving the government the authority to determine the countries morals seperate from biblical principles is exactly why people lack common sense now, or at least it's a large part of it. We don't have to be responsible for ourselves anylonger as we are going to be told what is OK, what is safe, what is good and what is right.
Or might I ask what in society today has aided people in losing their common sense?
Isaiah 33:22 For the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king it is he who will save us.
it is He who will save us...not the government
Cheers :)
What I wondered when I read this post is...What is more important? Safety and survival? Or freedom.
I know you say this post is not about cellphones but when ever I read the start of the post it screams at me that the government is being a tyrant and oppressing our freedoms, when all they are really doing is trying to save lives. The two reasons I see for there being less biblical principles in the government is the church messed up, and the large amount of non Christians now. The church messed up by having to much power and using it to gain money instead of helping people ie. taking money to forgive sins. The large amount of non Christians means that they would not care if something was a biblical principle and just pester government members to change it until they do. The unfortunate thing is even the church will not stick up for itself anymore and lots of the churches are following the ideas society has come up with not gods ideas. The lessening of faith has helped the lack of common sense in society because people do not have to worry about the future. If people think they just die than why does it matter when they die so they might as well just take risks and have fun. Technology is another thing that has contributed to the loss of common sense. People now rely on calculators instead of just doing any slightly complicated math. Valkyrie your ending comment on the last post was very true. To answer Leslie's question safety and survival of others out ways the importants of freedom of carelessness.
>>To answer Leslie's question safety and survival of others out ways the importants of freedom of carelessness.
I see your point. And then, why do you think God gave Adam and Eve freedom of choice when he knew everyone following them would die at the hand of their careless action?
I posted again so quickly because I messed up with my last post. i should not have said what non Christians might think because I do not know and it does not actually make much sense how I said it.
Leslie looking at it that way should not murder be allowed because it is just a careless act that causes others to lose their lives? I guess the way I look at it Adam and Eve were punished by being cast out of the garden and such.
Good points, my thinking friend.
Just remember there's a difference between being point-blank forbidden to do something and being permitted to CHOOSE whether or not you'll do right or wrong.
God gave us free will and with it, put inside every human a conscience to remind us all (Christian or not) what is right and wrong. Should the government weaken our ears to our conscience by speaking louder than the voice inside us?
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