Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong

GOD is only for believers! Others are capable of helping themselves!

I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.

An active civil position makes a Christian strong as the image of God