Outstanding nostr author, @Max ... ...recently published this brilliant essay as an antidote to the stunted, false-dichotomy thinking of many Libertarians: View Article → I'm a big fan of his work. @Max expresses things remarkably clearly, and brings fresh perspectives that help people focus on core issues. For this, I am truly grateful. However, there is an identity group which I believe to be vastly larger than either political (upper-case "L") or generic (lower-case "l") libertarians, and which suffers from similarly self-limiting choices. I'm referring to those who self-identify as "Christians," very typically part of local, regional, and national membership organizations known as "churches" or "denominations." Like the Libertarians, these church-goers desperately need awakening to the Third Option @Max has so cogently described... absolutely beginning, as he has said, ***"with clear-eyed recognition of what the state actually is."*** Cast into Biblical terms more familiar to "Christians," the state is metaphorically Egypt and Babylon, an oppressor falsely claiming the place of God Almighty by violently asserting control over every living soul in its assumed territorial jurisdiction. The prevailing world-view among "Christians" has for a long time been that the "Two Realms" @Max speaks of are equally valid, and I believe this has resulted in what we observe as two major factions in Christendom; "Christian Nationalists" and the rest of the church. My counter-diagnosis is that the Two Realms he speaks of are—from a more accurate Biblical perspective—identifiable as The Kingdom of God vs The Fiefdoms of Satan... aka, all human state organizations speciously claiming a monopoly on violence. Therefore—to the bitcoin meetups, conferences, and other nascent local groups @Max has mentioned as local manifestations of the Third Option—I would like to promote the notion that peaceful, autonomous, local faith-based gatherings of Christians (until now self-identifying with the misnomer of "churches") should be added to his list of parallel antidotes to the current violent system. For those of his readers who may be interested in this theological perspective, here are a couple of links to relevant essays I've written during the last decade:

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'The Kingdom of Jesus/God/The Heavens' - My Library Shelf | PeakD

A collection of articles challenging prevailing views of the relationship between the church and ersatz civil government... by creatr

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'The Curmudgeon's Bible' - My Library Shelf | PeakD

I have long been convinced that subtle corruption of scripture translation is one of satan

Be sure to follow @Max for his fine, much-appreciated work!🙏🏻😁👍