Good News from Cuba

I was reading some news articles today when I ran across one that sounds like really positive news out of Cuba. It is really a small deal, but it may portend much good to come.

Cubans, for the very first time ever, are now allowed to own their own cell phones.

What's so good about that? Well, besides the possible link between cell phone use and cancer, (what, by the way, isn't linked in some way to cancer?) I do think this is a good sign.

You see, governments are meant to uphold the rights of their citizens. Cuba, for far too long, has been ruled by a government too fearful of what its citizens would do with their own rights to really give them access to them. This is common to all communistic governments in history. Their worldview, founded completely on atheistic humanism, requires the government to bring about a society in which want is eliminated through the use of force. Somehow, these people believe that they can create a Utopia through completely non-Utopian means, and the result has always been disaster, oppression, and mass death.

A Biblical worldview sees government not as a tool for creating some perfect society but as a tool God created to punish evildoers and protect people from them. There is no goal of perfection because the Bible teaches that there can be nothing like that where fallen people dwell. Rather, perfection is only found in God and people only trend toward perfection when God is honored and He makes a difference in peoples' lives. Utopia will occur, but it cannot be ushered in by any human effort - it will only occur when Jesus Christ returns to rule the world as King!

So, I am encouraged when Cubans are allowed to own cell phones. It shows that their leaders are beginning to accept the failure of their system and give back to the people rights and responsibilities that have been denied them.