Conquer Nature Not Men-Why I Don’t Like Socialism Or Christian Nationalism

To image God we conquer nature. 
I know some people (hardcore environmentalists) don’t like that, but it’s what we’ve been designed and tasked to do. 
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image,
   in the image of God he created him;
   male and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Gen 1:26-28)

Last week I wrote about Francis Bacon’s statement, “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.” 
We obey the laws of nature and God in order to fulfill our calling as humanity—as humans. 
But there is confusion over this word “conquer.“
Because we are not called to conquer men. Just nature. 
I like Ayn Rand, though I know she is an atheist. 
She has a devastatingly logical thought process and critique of Christianity. She is the steal man that we need if we are to defend our faith honestly. 
That’s me, anyway.
But her novel characters, Howard Roark and John Galt, say the darndest things. 
In the Fountainhead courtroom scene, Roark says, 

The creator stands on his own judgment. The parasite follows the opinions of others. The creator thinks, the parasite copies. The creator produces, the parasite loots. 

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature - the parasite's concern is the conquest of men. 

Wow, wow, wow. Read that again. 
The creator requires independence, he neither serves nor rules. He deals with men by free exchange and voluntary choice. The parasite seeks power, he wants to bind all men together in common action and common slavery. He claims that man is only a tool for the use of others. That he must think as they think, act as they act, and live is selfless, joyless servitude to any need but his own. 

Look at history. Everything we have, every great achievement has come from the independent work of some independent mind. 

Every horror and destruction came from attempts to force men into a herd of brainless, soulless robots. Without personal rights, without personal ambition, without will, hope, or dignity. It is an ancient conflict. It has another name: the individual against the collective. (Emphasis added)

This is Genesis 1:26-28! 
In Atlas Shrugged, Galt says, 

No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. All the reasons which make the initiation of force evil, make the rule of force evil. To interpose the threat of force between a man and his perception of reality is to negate and paralyze his means of survival.

In other words, as humans, we are created and put here to reach into the earth and develop civilization. We are never here to subjugate others. 
This is why socialism won’t work (and, of course, communism). 
And also…
This is why Christian Nationalismwon’t work. Even if somehow we Christians could all agree on the interpretation of Christian laws and which ones should be imposed by force, it would be wrong to initiate force in order to oppose them. 
The laws we must have in a great civilization are the axiomatic laws that do not require a state to initiate force, but rather to retaliate against force with force. 
I recently heard someone say the phrase “Christian Nationalism” is made up by the left as a way to scare people. No, Christian Nationalism is scary and I live for Jesus. 
The strength of the Church today has its roots in the Founders’ wisdom to not make a “Christian” government, but one built on axiomatic biblical freedoms of human rights and the sacredness of the individual, even the right to disbelieve.
Because when unbelief is honest, it is better than fake belief. Honesty is more axiomatic than pretending.  
If you want to see what it would look like to lose that, look at any government in the last 2000 years who claimed a God-given, moral right to conquer others. Oh, and, there was the Inquisition. 
And the witch burnings in Massachusetts…I could go on. 
Happy to write more if there seems to be a desire to read more about it. 
Meanwhile, how might you take your God-given place today as a conqueror of nature? You could start by creating something!