Not whether, but which…

Recent comments over at The Reformed Standard and The Confessional Outhouse have called into question whether the Church has as her Great Commission to Christianize the culture, or whether there could even be such a thing as Christian culture. Keeping in line with the antithesis asserted in Genesis 3:15, Wilson has a apt response to such questions over at Blog and Mablog. Here is a snippet:

There are really two basic questions when it comes to questions of theocracy. The first is erroneously thought to be a genuine question — whether or not we should have a theocracy, whether there will be a god who rules over any given culture. The fact that this is even believed to be a coherent question is one of the central confusions of our age. Every society has a god, every society has a highest authority in the lives of those governed. To deny such an authority is not to destroy “theocracy” but rather to destroy society itself. The question is not whether god, but rather which god. Will it be God the Father, Demos, Allah, Mammon, or Hugo Chavez?

The sweet pic, “An old hanging oil-lamp“, is property of Chris Sofopoulos, © 2005-2007, used without permission, but I gave him props and linked to his gallery, so I hope it’s ok.