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Jordan Eskovitz
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Multidisciplinary artist. Partner at VRTCL. Partner npub1h74f0euxvsdjhralqrsf9uz40ag4exeddxlply3065xr22ey9ldqt8h043. Designer & Photographer at Crossway. Christ is Lord. Festina Lente. #design #art #artstr

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Like I said, complicated. I'm a protestant in the reformed tradition so I am well aware of historical church corruption. But to see the entirety of the medieval period as one giant epoch of church corruption is a sad and flattened view.

I'm not looking to dunk on you, to be clear. You're not wrong that there were periods and regions where the peasantry suffered under unjust rulers and clergy. But the Church Age, built atop the Scriptures, is why we today can even have this discussion. Our freedoms, senses of justice, tools of liberty—our whole moral framework—is the fruit of Christendom, and medieval Christendom especially.

You can believe the "evidence" if you want but actual history suggests otherwise.

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This clip from Jared Bernstein, Chair of the council of economic advisors, may help alleviate a fear to those who believe “those in power” are smarter than you.

https://youtu.be/RRJ7NUWYyEM?feature=shared

Economics is simple
.1) prices fall to the marginal cost of production in a free market and 2) We trade with each other (all over the world) to gain more value.

It just looks hard through a system trying to deceive you to retain its power over you.

Oof

There will never be a world in which there are no rulers. Human beings, indeed the entire cosmos, is hierarchical. The issue isn't rulers, the issue is unrighteous rulers.

Put another way, if the State doesn't see itself as being under the lordship of the God of heaven, it will elevate itself to be in the place of God. The issue is not fundamentaly that there are governing bodies and authorities, it is that, in our age, those authorities are godless (and therefore tyrannical).

I recommend an ESV from Crossway (full disclosure, I work for Crossway, but it really is a great translation which draws from the original manuscripts, the KJV, and the RSV)