Eoghan
Puritan Board Senior
No, but I suspect the answer depends if you are a Presbyterian or Baptist
Rightly or wrongly the expenditure of "tax dollars" or "the public purse" brings with it an accountability to the electorate. Far better to question what the government should be raising taxes for. As I understand it they should maintain some sort of army for defensive purposes (does that include military intervention elsewhere?). Education would be best paid for by the individual parents. That brings up the thorny question of parents. Here in the UK there are more children born out of wedlock than in!
No is my answer and that for one reason. State support for which ministers and which church? Here in Scotland the Church of Scotland has broken from the Westminster Confession and seems determined in defining what it does not believe in rather than what it does. That my taxes should support a largely apostate church is a grievous offence to me.
The same might be said for state support of Education. At what point do you decide that the education is no longer education but humanist indoctrination? At thet point having conceded the point that general taxation should be used to fund education you are funding the humanist indoctrination of our youth. Clause 28 was a bitter battle over here to prevent the use of the public purse (tax dollars) to promote homosexuality. Should the general taxes raised in Scotland be used to support ministers in:
The Free Church of Scotland
The Free Church of Scotland Continuing
The Church of Scotland
The Baptist Churches of Scotland
Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (F.I.E.C.)
Brethren Assemblies
Elim Pentecostal
Anglican Churches
The Roman Catholic Church
To some extent this is already the case, in that your degree course is funded for you. (Admitedly this has changed a bit with the development of loans but it is the same for any course)
Rightly or wrongly the expenditure of "tax dollars" or "the public purse" brings with it an accountability to the electorate. Far better to question what the government should be raising taxes for. As I understand it they should maintain some sort of army for defensive purposes (does that include military intervention elsewhere?). Education would be best paid for by the individual parents. That brings up the thorny question of parents. Here in the UK there are more children born out of wedlock than in!
No is my answer and that for one reason. State support for which ministers and which church? Here in Scotland the Church of Scotland has broken from the Westminster Confession and seems determined in defining what it does not believe in rather than what it does. That my taxes should support a largely apostate church is a grievous offence to me.
The same might be said for state support of Education. At what point do you decide that the education is no longer education but humanist indoctrination? At thet point having conceded the point that general taxation should be used to fund education you are funding the humanist indoctrination of our youth. Clause 28 was a bitter battle over here to prevent the use of the public purse (tax dollars) to promote homosexuality. Should the general taxes raised in Scotland be used to support ministers in:
The Free Church of Scotland
The Free Church of Scotland Continuing
The Church of Scotland
The Baptist Churches of Scotland
Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (F.I.E.C.)
Brethren Assemblies
Elim Pentecostal
Anglican Churches
The Roman Catholic Church
To some extent this is already the case, in that your degree course is funded for you. (Admitedly this has changed a bit with the development of loans but it is the same for any course)
