Leviticus 1:3 …he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
God has the power to force everyone to do the right thing. An omniderigent God (Thanks, Vox.) could make human society run like a unity machine of the first order. But then it wouldn’t be a society, it would be a machine. Although I’m sure that would please politicomechanizers such as Horace Mann, Joseph Stalin, and Hillary Clinton, I don’t believe it’s what God wants. Not only does he refrain from micromanaging every aspect of life, but he also wants us to leave each other alone. He never authorized governments to force people to do good. He never even authorized them to prevent people from doing all kinds of evil. People need to be free to make their own decisions, to tithe or not, to care for the poor or not. Charity at gun point is self-defeating. It breeds resentment, hatred, and eventually murder. It drives good men finally to declare, “No more runnin’. I aim to misbehave.” Tar and feathers to follow.
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Surely anyone who nonchalantly quotes Mal Reynolds, sole survivor of the Battle of Serenity Valley, has a great deal to say on a good many subjects.
You can count on it, Hoss, ‘cuz not everything’s shiny in the ‘verse, ‘n I intend to set some small part of it to right again.