Watching the BBC has been a hoot this week! OH how the leftists are screaming and squirming frantically, searching for a way to leave democracy behind. Meanwhile the anti-democratic Democrats of the US are working furiously to derail the clearly stated will of the majority of the UK. To make this all just a little bit worse, the US is about to elect a new government that nobody trusts. Its like ringside seats at a 10 ring circus.
So they didn't know there would be difficulty and a time of restructuring and redefining themselves that would be painful? ..politicians rarely point those out until after they get the vote they want..and people rarely have the vision and for sight to see it coming..this generation does not want challenging and hard...so some no doubt were naïve about the immediate results of the vote.
What will the long term effects be ? Well we really don't know. The British have made themselves guinea pigs in an experiment of their own device.
At it's core, it is about whether people want to be ruled by elected officials or ruled over by administrative fiat of unelected bureaucrats..
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
(Ephesians 4:17-18)
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
(Psalm 1)
Not every hyper idealistic option will work in practical reality. There are reasons why the NT doesn't dictate that people should seek to free themselves from the Roman empire to the degree possible. The EU is nothing compared to that but even the Roman empire brought stability and prosperity and helped fend off worse aggressors.
FaithfulOne (06-30-2016)
The EU isn't executing and persecuting Christians at the moment, nor have they done so previously. The passages I had in mind from the Gospels and Romans were written years before Nero even began persecuting Christians. Nero wasn't even born at the time of Jesus. The Roman empire they referred to was better in many ways than the alternatives.