Yes, the contraception wars have begun.

This commonly recycled topic now pertains to clauses in Obamacare that force church-operated institutions to include coverage for contraception in their employee healthcare insurance plans. The Church is now speaking out against the Obama Administration, claiming the mandates impede upon its right to practice religion freely.

So what do we do about this problem? One Southern Baptist theologian recently said Christians should opt out of funding immoral actions as a form of civil disobedience.

I’ll be the first to admit I’m no longer too religious in the non-spiritual sense. I continue to find the extravagances of modern churches to be insulting to the teachings of Jesus. Yet I agree in full with the Church’s grievances. I have similar ones.

In the words of Sheldon Richman , “If Catholic institutions have a right to abstain from paying for what morally offends them, why don’t the rest of us?”

Whereas some Christians do not want to pay for contraception, I do not want to pay for Obama’s wars. I do not want to pay for him to kill civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. I do not want to pay for drone strikes on innocent cities in Pakistan and Yemen. I do not want to pay to hurt people, for war flies directly in the face of the Bible’s promotion of unconditional peace. In fact, war (and taxation, which fuels its presence) strips down two of the Ten Commandments at once: thou shalt not kill, and thou shalt not steal.

The way I see it, all Christians should adhere to  voluntaryism , a philosophy holding that every human interaction and exchange made in society should be voluntary. This is why I agree so much with Richard Land—the Southern Baptist theologian mentioned earlier—and his plea Christians resolve these future woes through non-violent civil disobedience.

After all, was this not the cause Jesus allowed himself to be crucified for?

I cannot consciously advocate masses of people going to jail for such a reason as trivial as contraception, but I would love to see an entire Christian community refuse to send in taxes each year until the U.S. government ceases its violence overseas. There is certainly more to the Bible, the Gospel and Jesus Christ than to that which most people are exposed. If they weren’t cherry-picking verses and reading these teachings out of context, they would assuredly be voluntaryists .

On the other hand, it is a shame to see the secular community betraying its supposed doctrine of truth in favor of distorting religion into an ominous threat. If the only “Christians” I’d ever met were people like Rick Santorum , I wouldn’t want to be a Christian either, but it is unfair—to whose lives are dedicated to helping others in a peaceful way—for others to straw man thousands of years of history with the image of self-centered politicians whose only dreams entail subsequent campaigns.

There is an enormous difference between prohibiting someone from purchasing contraception and forcing someone to pay for it. The solution is as simple as the one we use in our daily lives: I will not stop you from doing anything you’d like, as long as you promise not to steal my money in order to do it.

It is the only way for Christians to live in the manner requested by our teachings and we can only expect others to treat us in the same way.

To conclude with Christian anarchist Leo Tolstoy: “Christianity in its true sense puts an end to government. […] No honest and serious-minded man of our day can help seeing the incompatibility of true Christianity—the doctrine of meekness, forgiveness of injuries, and love—with government, with its pomp, acts of violence, executions, and wars. The profession of true Christianity not only excludes the possibility of recognizing government, but even destroys its very foundations.”