As Is The Feeling,
So Is The Result.

This one is a theologian’s candy garden. Rather goes to essentials very rapidly. The situation reminds me of a famous Aquinas dictum to the effect that an unjust law — one that restricts freedom without demonstrable intent to prohibit or punish a harm — is a species of violence, not a law. In general, when one gets down to fighting over the lawfulness of a law, one is already outside the protective shield of proper behavior.

The Rev. MacArthur were best advised to do quietly what is right, as God gives him light to see what is right, and to speak the truth quietly when and where he has occasion, to include pointing out that CA authorities promulgating these species of violence as if they are laws are anti-Christians.

In other words, stay away from the two kingdoms argument — fundamentally because it is undesirable, unrealistic, and impossible to un-mix, to de-polymerize their fibers — and focus instead on the geo-political phenomenology of anti-Christian animus and its consequences, such as actual lawlessness, actual hardship, actual harm and loss. If you eliminate Christians, you will have no flowers.