An untold reason for small government

What would humanity really look like without the manifestations of politicians?

Why keep government small? There are common answers that perhaps you have heard your whole life: The bigger the government, the more money that must be drawn from the public to pay for services. The bigger the government, the more agencies, statutes, and regulations that must be obeyed or managed. The bigger the government, the greater the threat to individual liberty.

I’ll add an uncommon answer: The bigger the government, the greater the tendency for government to map itself onto the whole of human existence. Humanity, then, becomes a product of political will, instead of being a product of creation, God’s image, Imago Dei.

When the state becomes the center of society, the state defines everything, gives names and definition to everything, conditions, contours, and colors the way we experience (or don’t experience) reality.

Once rules are made and names are given, society reflects what is politically possible rather than the extent of raw human potential. Humanity’s own rationality a…