Many people rant and rave about sin and crime and few if any have ready solutions for the predicaments of their neighbours.  To the Christian, if you are not a Christian, poor you .  Religious governments can chop off limbs to prevent violations of person and property.  There is no doubt in my mind that the delusion of a great American Revolution 2.0 is emotional lunacy, lacking love and justice of the type assumed to be central to most spiritual communities.  While God’s hot face has brought about the speedy demise of select individuals it is obvious that zapping erring individuals cannot be God’s ultimate treatment. 

God PUBLICLY DISPLAYED Christ as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was for the  DEMONSTRATION of His righteousness, because in God’s forbearance He passed over the sins people had previously committed;

(Romans 3:25, from the NASB)

So instead of a clean of the perps, as secular and religious authorities customarily do, God’s anger turns to unusual justice.  Still both old and new believers get on a high horse against the evils of our times and we find them holding out nothing to compare to what God has done in Christ to assist the needy.  I suppose these righteous vigilantes know nothing about God’s saving grace and his ongoing intercession.  Pity.

Keep your anger down, get on the shine-a-light train

Cursing the darkness probably happens a lot more often than anyone might want to admit, but I do not expect the angels avenging Israel’s dysfunction or American malfunctions to call themselves out any time soon.  They all are sure that making offenders disappear is the righteous thing to do.  Whither Netanyahu, Vladimir, and all the thuggish weaklings of our times?

This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;  for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.

(James 1:19-20, NASB)