Archive for the ‘Love’ Category

Marriage is for a family, a family is for the children

May 5, 2013
education online

education online (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee)

This is a reply to the blog by Brian Roberts, a sociologist:

http://brianrobertssociology.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/nuclear-family-in-decline-bbc-online/

First this: “Functionalism and the New Right see this as detrimental to society, evidenced in the increase in crime, educational failure etc.” Then “This argument rests upon the assumption that a child needs to be raised within an environment of married mum and dad – dad being the key stabilizer here.”

If something is “evidenced in”, then it’s not an argument that “rests upon the assumption”. As a matter of fact, the “evidence” you mention shows the actual truth of the matter, something that actually some voices agree from among the more censored and suppressed voices ion today’s “sociology”.

In fact, the “evidence” is stronger than how it was presented. The studies –even from more “gay-friendly” survey organizations– show that the correspondence between a strong nuclear family of husband, wife, on one side, and less crime, more educational success, more psychological stability, and so on.

There are exceptions on all sides, depending on what measures you accept.

The damage is done when social and political pressures in the majority of social milieus impose the assumption that the family type doesn’t matter.

Besides, the historical evidence from millenia of recorded history shows us also that the tendency toward the true nuclear, natural family springs from nature. A woman is driven by her maternal instincts unless it is “socialized” out of her. Genders of man and woman are *most obviously* and self-evidentially natural, and not impositions of society, an idea some some “social disruptor forces” are trying to impose on the rest of us, mostly from positions of power.

A society with fewer stable children, after all, is more resistant to dictates from state decrees. Children raised by father and mother, less confused by gender confusions imposed unnaturally upon them, absorb more of their parents’ base values and are not so vulnerable to manipulation.

That’s why the powers that be demand state indoctrination centers for the children, and that’s why they assume that taxes extorted from the populace must be allocated there. That’s why from the beginning, free and forced education requirements were imposed early on. Instead of treating the education dole like they treat the welfare dole, they instead want to make it education by the state.

It’s not “for the children”, obviously. If it were “for the children”, they would look at the results of nearly a century of almost universal obligatory and government-provided schooling, and recoil in horror at it, and immediately insist on letting parents have those resources so they can have a choice as to where to put their children. Using the slower children as an excuse to put chains on the brighter ones to bind them to centrally planned failures is an outrageous atrocity, and not even based in fact, since the “slower ones” are often freed up in a different setting to thrive.

Michelle Shocked – Yes God is Real – michelleshocked.com – YouTube

April 28, 2013
Cover of the Communist Manifesto’s initial pub...

Cover of the Communist Manifesto’s initial publication in February 1848 in London. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJq11taAJgY

 

..just sharing…

 

But in an interview later, she backed off earlier comments because she was inundated by accusations of hate when she shared that members of her church were afraid for the country because of the lifting up of homosexual marriage in the nation. She was subjected to so much hate speech that she sort of recanted.

 

But take note. I heard the video (or audio) of the first comment that caused the firestorm. They were mild and did not carry the weight of conviction or authority.

 

The flood of hate that awaits anyone who has anything positive about the natural nuclear family as even an ideal, means that anyone who is going to make such a statement should know what he is talking about, know his subject, and have the firm conviction of being right.

 

Christians need to remember we are sinners and it’s not even just the soul of our nation that concerns us, but the harm that homosexual behaviors invite by the behavior, a vector for unwelcome effects. And the children of the next generation. Every child has a father and a mother who have a responsibility and obligation to the child. And every relevant study shows that by almost any measure, a child is best protected and cultivated if he has the benefit of a father and a mother who raise him together.

 

The attack on the institution of marriage got full steam ahead with Karl Marx in his Communist Manifesto. The promotion of homosexual practices, with the demands for official same-sex marriage, abortion, these things were politicized in the 19th and 20th century by secularist leaders who of a truth are fighting marriage itself. This is something they are starting to feel safe now in saying out loud for an audience.

 

Karl Marx’ intent was to dissolve it. He called it a “bourgeouis” thing, although in fact it is a universal thing. Karl Marx had his own (neglected) wife and his children came to sorry ends, in fact. The real purpose is to make future generations safe for tyranny. They do this by having the state claim ownership of the children.

(By the way, the Kremlin has a bunch of writings by Karl Marx that are still kept hidden away in secret. What kind of dark stuff is it, you ask? We do too.)

 

Jesus loves the little children. God is love, and Jesus is his love manifest to us. If anybody “owns” the children, it’s God, regardless who has the blessings of raising them.

 

 

 

 

 

Homeschool parents have 1 shot to see son again

April 22, 2013
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/homeschool-parents-have-1-shot-to-see-son-again/?cat_orig=education

This family needs international support to keep their son.

The Swedish authorities have been brutal against the rights of the family to keep their child, based only on their home-schooling decision, despite testimony from numerous friends and neighbors they are a good family and the decision of a lower court in the family’s favor.

The child was taken from them even as they boarded an aircraft to go to the mother’s home country of India. Their Social Services, the agency that was portrayed as criminally negligent in the novel by Stieg Larsson, in his so-called “Millennium Trilogy“, the most famous being “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo“.

They are certainly living down to the horrendous performance of the treatment of the girl in those novels.

Of course Stieg Larsson was also wrong, wrong, WRONG, in his perverted portrayal of Nazil history. The Nazis, especially the Hitler kind, despised Christianity and hated the Bible. His fictitious evil socialist (“national socialist”) based crimes on verses.

Of course the crimes they committed were worse than the perversions portrayed, weren’t they, and he did not bring in the question of whether these people actually did it.

 

Parents: Tell Your Children the Truth

January 5, 2013

First off, I don’t like practical jokes, and this was an example of it, and get this into your brain: there is nothing “practical” about them at all. And raising my children, I cannot remember even once ever lying to them. I told them plainly all along there was no Santa Claus.

Fox and Friends‘ panel this morning (January 5, 2013) discussed the video of a mother doing a practical joke on her son.

Dr. Susan Lipkins said that the parent should not have punked her child, and there is Dr. Robert Epstein who says it’s okay because from his studies with thousands of families, the most important factor is an environment of big love and affection for the children.

She was interviewed on Fox and Friends Saturday about the viral video of that Mom who did this with her child. For context, she wrote a book condemning practices of bullying and hazing among groups of kids, at schools and in other contexts.

First, emphasize this, it is true that loving your kids, spending time with them, having fun with them, is the most important factor in raising your children. Some parents are better at this than others.

I think the mother is targeted too harshly though by some, as this is good gossip fodder for busybodies who like to criticize others and jump in against them. Not that I would count Ms. Lipkin among them. She was asked her opinion, and used the occasion to give it. Of course. As did the other psychiatrist they had on.

But in one brief moment during the interview it was mentioned that another thing that Lipkins says is that parents should never lie to their kids. Yay!

This is something I always have said, and of course that applies to Santa Claus and other such myths. When the name came up, I always told my kids there was no Santa Claus.

I sat behind one of our my oldest two boys on a bus trip once, and there was a girl who was in a seat next to him asked him what Santa Claus had brought him, because it was just after Christmas. He replied that there was no Santa Claus. I was delighted to hear this. Then she echoed the the meme they push every Christmas season, saying he represents a spirit of the season, or something like that. I was compelled to come in at that point: “Yeah, the wrong one”.

Think about the trauma of kids that spend the first few years of their awareness of life being told something by their parents that they later find out –likely from peers about their own age at school– that there is no Santa Claus. When they go back and ask their parents, the parents confess up, although some of them argue about it because some pop psychologist that they have seen on Pop Media have told them it’s good for the kid to believe the myth.

So they go on telling the kids a lie and finally the gig is up anyway.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. – 2 Corinthians 13:8

 

Why the Bible is libertarian

December 31, 2012
Memorial statue of William Wilberforce in West...

Memorial statue of William Wilberforce in Westminster Abbey, London (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Rothbard had an opinion on “The Politics of the Apocalypse”, and quite a few had some comments to make on the subject.

http://mises.org/daily/4574/Kingdom-Come-The-Politics-of-the-Millenium

http://flyoverpress.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/rothbard-on-the-politics-of-the-apocalypse/

Wow. All this talk about Christian doctrine variants more especially in the comments from people who don’t know very much about the subject, and repeat talking points from others who don’t know very much either.

Rothbard did understand some of the nuances of the doctrines and how they would relate to libertarians, especially with respect to Gary North, but there was some lack there. And he seemed to completely leave my views out, but then my Biblical views are not too well known even among Christians. (But for those who do it’s closest to “post-Trib”.)

Stay tuned, the only set of laws God mandated for a nation on the planet, was based on no earthly political government at all, and had no enforcement arm except the people themselves (who did a poor job of it in fact). And FORBAD taking a free man slave by the way.

Almost all of us alive today were robbed of the knowledge that THE “father of modern science”, Isaac Newton, was a young-Earth creationists. Oh, and NOW we have science. (Newton didn’t I guess haha).

And robbed of history. St. Patrick‘s legacy is literacy in Ireland, the end of slaving raids between Ireland and England, the saving of Greek and Roman classics by the Irish who learned to love Christ and books from Patrick, the re-introduction of learning and culture to Europe by the Irish and British monks.

And the one man identified with the end of slavery in the British Empire, William Wilberforce, who was sent back to the mission field of the British Parliament for that purpose by the repentant former slaver John Newton (“Amazing Grace”).

Europe’s history of Roman-heritage slavery faded away with the influence of former slave St. Patrick’s legacy, led an entire island of chiefs and serfs, and demon-worshippers and human sacrifices, Druid treat or tricksters, into the people that loved Christ and loved learning and saved many of the pagan Roman and Greek classics we have today.

Libertarianism itself that owes much of its philosophy to the influence that Christ has had in culture for two millennia. The “Golden Rule” has taken a very long time to get to the place where we are now at, and has had the obstacles of many identity thieves who took the credentials of the Prince of Peace to make war on their own people and their neighbors –though never with the savagery of pagans and unbelievers gone before and after.

And this may come as a shock to some Christ-haters, and some who are not so hostile, but the only government God ever really ordained directly was NONE AT ALL, outside the sense in which God is in ultimate control of it all (except where he lets you destroy yourself). Yep there were gobs of rules, and those rebellious and murmuring persnickety Jews in the Exodus that kept whining for how good they had it back in Egypt when they were slaves, they needed them.

There were some penalties ordained that we see today as harsh but you can go read for yourself how fast they quit obeying them and did NOT apply those penalties. And when they demanded a government, God told Samuel to tell them they had rejected HIM.

That’s a real theocracy, with no human mediator except Christ.

There’s more but this is too much already. You can see more of the reasoning when my book comes available on the subject. (Which just needs editing, but that takes a budget of time or money).

As to the relationship of millennial doctrines with political application, please observe that there are LOTS more atheists who are hell-bent on implementing their varied political philosophies and imposing their ways of life on the rest of us –lying platitudes from some of them notwithstanding– than there are Christians trying to run a guerrilla operation to take over. We are still tortured around the world by Christ-haters, along with other dissidents in whatever political geography, while the very loud “fag”-haters and “dominionists” can’t get more than a few dozen followers now.

And I know many devout Christians, born-again believers, who believe the Bible cover to cover, who are some of the most reliable libertarians there are. They have both the spiritual, the Biblical, and the political truths on their side. Some of them condemn homosexuality with the most emphatic language when congregated but exhibited the love and grace of God with homosexuals in their support for Ron Paul, for example.

Jesus did say “Go and sin no more” to the adulterous woman but just before that he said “Neither do I condemn thee”.  Like the early Christians, those who understand among the people shall instruct many, and instead of killing the infidel to spread their message (like pagans, fascists, socialists, and many atheists have done) they lay down their lives like their Christ.

What’s wrong with Halloween fun?

October 31, 2012

Take a read at my new page about Halloween, it’s information that will not grow old with the days:

What’s wrong with Halloween fun?

http://trutherator.wordpress.com/whats-wrong-with-a-little-halloween-fun/

 

Stories worth a mention: Newslist recap

September 18, 2012

 

Ron Paul at the 2007 National Right to Life Co...

Ron Paul at the 2007 National Right to Life Convention, held at Crown Center Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, MO; June 15, 2007, (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Woz, the Wozniak partner of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, speaks about Apple’s patent victory, and you might be surprised, or, you might know about it already:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/09/17/woz-on-apple-legal-victory-over-samsung-hate-it/?intcmp=features

 

I was surprised, but didn’t think it was surprising…

 

<#######################>

 

As the prophet predicted, Russia’s hard-liners are in full resurgence now, with Putin leading the charge, not that you had to be a prophet to know it:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/14/lawmaker-faces-expulsion-for-his-anti-putin-stance/?intcmp=obinsite

 

All things change, but there is still nothing new under the sun… Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, and I WON’T BE FOOLED AGAIN!

 

<#######################>

 

Now, to help you save money so you can have a little more you can use to anticipate the coming dollar crash. Whatsoever a man seweth, that shall he also reap, and like Jude wrote, all those rich men that Jude wrote about that would weep and howl, the ones that ate at the pig trough of the Fed’s printing presses. The ones that are engineering this thing, because guys at that level can’t be all that stupid, will meet their fate too, deceived and all. Bernanke is covering himself, too, even as he does things he knows will not work to save anything, because he is already hinting when he says there’s “not much” he can do.

 

So what does he do? Set us all up for an even bigger catastrophe with QE3.

 

But to save you a little now so you can save up for it, I’ll point you to Fox News. They gathered a list of a few apps that can help cut your cell phone bill:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/09/16/apps-to-slash-your-cell-phone-bill/?intcmp=obnetwork

 

<#######################>

 

I found an “intellectual”, who led a study of on-line web pages, and he says it means we need still more laws. More and more people in the real world are realizing it was a bunch of stupid LAWS that made raicsm ride so much longer than it could have otherwise. Ask the Latins. They’ve had their own racial preference problems but they live together and work together, and oh my gosh, they even sleep together without all the violence we had.

 

He thinks he’s smart because fools like to blabber on social media, and he’s able to use that to show that we need more LAWS.

 

We need more LAWS like we need more JIM CROW. It’s enough of LAWS.

 

Well, getting rid of the LAWS that institutionalized racism and told people who they could and could not ASSOCIATE with, are the ones that are killing us. And now we have guys who have TV spots saying if you disagree with a black politician, you’re racist.

 

News flash:

 

THERE IS ONLY ONE RACE ON EARTH, AND THAT’S THE HUMAN RACE!

 

And then there are idiots who think skin color makes two different races. Now THAT’s racism!

 

Don’1t think they’ll stop with telling white people what to do, because they also want to block black guys from palling around with the likes of Alan West, and stop black business ladies from listening to Star Parker, and stop the black kids from listening to their pastors. The only way people will stop looking at themselves as groupmembers

 

http://www.technewsdaily.com/4584-obama-hate-speech-spreads-on-facebook.html?cmpid=492405

 

“Some people have declared the present a “post-racial” era in that U.S. citizens elected a black president, maintaining that policies to address racism are no longer necessary,” Mia Moody, Ph.D., who led the Baylor study, said in a statement. “But depictions of minorities in new media show otherwise.”

 

How about quit kicking a dead horse? Let the dead bury the dead already!

 

Academics look for a hundred ways to be useful and justify their lives.. They’re looking for where they can do good with their knowledge, a moral imperative… And if they lose sight of the Golden Rule, treating others as they want to be treated, they’ll start thinking that they should be telling the authorities what laws to make, what rules to pass, and more..

 

<#######################>

 

NYT readership and more importantly, its influence, is going downward.and its managing editor Dean Baquet admitted that “Obama and Romney campaign officials are reviewing and exercising veto control over their coverage”:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/27/new-york-times-sinking-ship-that-can-no-longer-aid-obama/?intcmp=obnetwork

 

http://www.technewsdaily.com/4584-obama-hate-speech-spreads-on-facebook.html?cmpid=492405

 

That’s why Ron Paul didn’t speak at the Republican National Convention, by the way. Romney and company wanted to vet his speech, exercise a bit of civilian censorship. Nyet. Ron Paul was about educating us, and he did it in the most gentlemanly way possible, and nobody can fault him now.

 

And he was right, and he is right.

 

<#######################>

 

The IRS says it will go easy on enforcing insurance mandate – at first – but how about later, and why did the legislation add 16,000 more enforcement agents? This article interpreted them as saying, almost, that they won’t enforce it, except it does say they might keep back the penalty tax from a refund:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/16/irs-agents-will-not-be-involved-in-tax-audits-pursuing-americans-without-health/?intcmp=obinsite

 

Does that mean they’ll pretend the uninsured will not get the bill for this?

 

Raise your hand if you think they’re telling us everything. You do? Ladies and gentlemen, meet the man who was born yesterday.

 

<#######################>

 

Compare credit unions vs. banks:

 

http://www.candofinance.com/banking/credit-union-versus-bank/

 

<#######################>

 

Cafemom uses a really really bad guy to call for killing the the innocent baby.

 

http://www.cafemom.com/articles/in_the_news/142916/man_shot_after_he_admits?utm_medium=sem2&utm_campaign=prism&utm_source=internal&utm_content=0

 

Um, yeah. Guys that get really young girls pregnant can expect all the consequences, but to use the bad guy for an excuse to kill the innocent baby, and telling the mother it’s okay to do it, creates two victims and two crimes.

 

Is it a baby, or is it not a baby? THAT is the question, and we all know down deep what the answer is.

 

Is a human being that is wanted the only human beings there are?

 

<#######################>

 

 

Abortion is not a civil right– But life is the first requirement for any rights at all

May 12, 2012
Members of Bound4LIFE in Washington, D.C. symb...

Members of Bound4LIFE in Washington, D.C. symbolically cover their mouths with red tape. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Life is the first and most basic civil and natural right, and without it the rest of them are null and void completely.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

Abortion is the first salvo in getting people to succumb to their own subjection to arbitrary autocratic rule, because it numbs people to the natural love of freedom we all have, the tendency toward individual human action.

It also set the stage for the hedonist culture changers to use government tools to make war on the Christianity. Christians opened the door for it by failing to continue the obvious progression toward more liberty after slavery was abolished, and instead used government action in voting and otherwise to establish more centralized power.

So at first the libertarian-small-”l” movement in the U.S. may have actually been majority atheist, although there has always been a significant number of Christians there too. Nick Gillepsie once said he figured there were about two-thirds of libertarians who are “pro-choice”, and one-third “pro-life”. A guess, he admitted.

But I would say that is heading toward a flip in place.

But one thing most would agree on. It would be a great leap of progress toward radically respecting individual freedoms again, natural rights, in this country, to nullify federal involvement altogether in the issue.

That way it becomes a battle of ideas, be they cultural, spiritual, economic, or otherwise, for the states, and the disparate cultures are not forced instead to battle for more power over the whole country.

If you’re pro-abortion, just remember this. Just like I told everyone who favored the Patriot Act way back in 2001, you should imagine that it’s not Bush in the White House, or now the Obama regime, but the worst possible character you can conceive of in the presidency.

Abortionists praying for more abortions: Echos of “Baby Ponds”

April 21, 2012

Found, surprise, at the Washington Post web site:

A prayer for abortion?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/religious-right-now/post/planned-parenthoods-abortion-prayer/2012/04/18/gIQABL46RT_blog.html

Pro-life advocates have long complained that Planned Parenthood, the country’s largest abortion provider, worships at the altar of abortion, but did you know that the abortion industry actually prays for abortion?

Perversely reminiscent of 40 day pro-life prayer vigils, Planned Parenthood in Humboldt County, Ca., is promoting it’s own “40 days of prayer,” March 18th through April 27th, for abortion. This is not their usually disguised promotion of abortion as “preventative care,” “family planning,” or “contraceptive services.” No, they throw those typical euphemisms out and directly pray for abortion.

It seems as though they feel confident enough now they can unveil the spiritual connection to pagan rituals of infant sacrifice, and to tell people of faith how to believe, bring them into lockstep conformity to how they are told to think by the self-appointed “Guardians of the Planet”, so they title it.

I’m not talking about the poor women who are exploited by these architects of depopulation, generally they know not what they do, and it’s very rare that the ones who’ve undergone such a thing, very rare they are proud of or brag about it.

At least even those who do it don’t talk about the ones they’ve done. Don’t let them tell you they’re afraid of fundamentalists, another lie, because if there were a Muslim fatwa issued on them they would certainly act differently, plus they know that in this country babies do not have realistic legal protection.

Baby ponds were the scourge in pagan China where “unwanted” babies were thrown to drown by mothers and others who didn’t want them. One report tells of a Christian missionary who attended an ecumenical conference in the first decade of the 20th century in Chicago, who literally begged the Christians to shun any statement of equivalence of religions.

Jesus Christ and his followers brought to the world  the idea of respect for the neighbor’s rights, because they considered it a duty to love others with the love that God had loved them and gave his only Son for them. They adopted the babies in Greece that were left on hillsides, they gathered under bridges to catch them as they were thrown down, and eventually mothers began leaving their babies at their doorsteps knowing they would have good lives.

Today, instead of promoting adoption for poor mothers’ babies, now they want to make it a “holy sacrament”, and it will be an “unholy sacrament”. By the way human sacrifice and child sacrifice is a blatant “sacrament” among Satanists, bluntly put.

Reminds me of an old lefist folk song I just heard earlier today, that the rich are eliminating poverty by killing the poor.

So they’re pulling off their masks and maybe they figure they have Christians sufficiently marginalized to be able to push the envelope even further.

But we will be okay, no matter what state we wind up in, because we have the very Creator of the Universe for us, and if God be for us, who can be against us? Abounding and abasing, David’s Mighty Men became the heroes of history.David was a protector of the poor:

And every one [that was] in distress, and every one that [was] in debt, and every one [that was] discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

And remember, even though the Beast of the Mark will establish a world government, he will have his own world full of trouble himself, and the people that are preparing the world for him. There will be all kinds of anti-anti-christs, an apparently hostile army coming toward Jerusalem from the East, and he has a poor ending:

And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. – Dan 11:45

Also remember that where sin doth abound, there grace doth much more abound, and God will abundantly pardon:

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

 

 

John Kerry channels Joe McCarthy stereotype, but there are signs of hope for freedom’s message

April 18, 2012

Joe McCarthy went along with the real fear of Americans that Communists, enemies of the Constitution, enemies of freedom, would of course want to infiltrate the State Department and other organs of government. I mean, how dare he think the Soviet Union would want to put spies in our government?

While those warnings have proved to be oh-so-true, now here comes Kerry and blows the whistle on why these central-planning advocate politicians want to impose a government-enforced “fairness” doctrine, or “equal time” doctrine, for media (hint: it has nothing at all to do with fairness or balance):

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/john-kerry-media-has-responsibility-to-not-give-equal-time-to-tea-party/

He says the media should suppress ideas that “everybody” knows are not true. What’s next? Maybe Kerry will next introduce a bill creating a new “Ministry of Truth” like the one in Orwell’s nightmarish totalitarian world of his novel “1984″.

Are students still reading that book? They should be. I don’t know if George Orwell remained a socialist after writing it, maybe he thought he was warning against the “worst ones” like Stalin, but even if so it still stands as a monumental warning and testament against socialism altogether, and against all socialistic policies, all policies that give any government more power.

Fascism = Naziism = Socialism = National Socialism = International Socialism.

It’s a testimony against the gullible for ignorance that Kerry’s own supporters did not recoil aghast at this blatant criticism against the natural right of free speech recognized in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

But there is hope waiting in the sidelines. I think the infrastructure is pretty much in place to finish off illusions of freedom in the USA and the last superficial respect for it, at best to throw an unmitigated economic disaster our way if they don’t get their way, but there are a couple of things that are positive developments in our time.

One, lots of people are waking up to what is going on, people of all backgrounds. Most of them are figuratively gathering around Ron Paul as a focal point for the new awareness and new appreciation for freedom from central-planning mandates. No matter whether the mandates are political or economic, they are encroachments on our natural rights. Not all are lined up with all of Ron Paul’s ideas, but even some of those are starting to realize he represents the best ideas for saving what’s left of respect for freedom.

Two, even the youth and the left gullible are listening to the libertarian message with its walking example of an honest champion in Ron Paul. The idea is intoxicating of a politician who is in it to give more power to the people instead of themselves, instead of saying they need more power to “solve problems” (wink wink). Instead we have someone who has consistently voted against his own material interests saying the “political class”should give up power back to the people, to the individual, in order to let them solve problems much better.

Three, Ron Paul providing a focal point for this new movement, this honest intellectual revolution, is an example of the application of true Christian principles to federal governance. This is helping Christians break free of the straitjacket of what they are told to think by their own brand of Pharisees who beat the drums for a Constantine government instead of for the freedom to “make disciples of all nations”. Making disciples requires interacting with individuals with love, and sharing the gospel with them instead of invading their countries to “make” them into “democracies”.

The founders who articulated well-established principles of government into the Constitution and the Christian leaders, the devout Bible-believing Christians who forced the Bill of Rights into the constitutional package from the beginning, they said it themselves.

The same Christian politicians and writers who today invoke them for their own kind of “moral central planning” refer to quotes by them to prove they were believers,  which for the most part they were, saying that this constitution or the republican form of government works only for a moral and religious people.

If a people or a culture doesn’t have a foundation of respect for your neighbor, meaning the real-life application of the Golden Rule, then any republic or “democracy” you set up will tend to be a sham.

The United States has a strong tradition since its inception of respect for the individual and for personal responsibility, coupled with another strong tradition of private charity.

These are the kinds of ideas that are bringing Christians away from demands for more Pharisee government into a philosophy that emulates more individualism as Jesus thought of it, whose kingdom is not of this world. His kingdom is in the hearts of men, not in the rule of men.

Well I went into some parenthetical related thoughts but the point is that Christians are learning to come to respect the limits of government and that you cannot just put a just man, or men, in power to issue commands that all subjects act in moral righteousness, it simply will not work and it will corrupt the idea  with man’s corruption, and you can prove it by simply looking at what secular power did to the Church throughout history, with Catholics and Protestants alike.

In some cases, you can see God‘s hand in history. It’s not that any leader was perfect by any means, but just as Nebuchadnezzar was “my [God's] servant”, God will use certain leaders sometimes to help move the world to one in which there is more peace. Sometimes it’s directly, sometimes indirectly, but eventually Christians have the end of the story in the Bible.

The fourth point to this list is that Ron Paul, the faithful Christian who says he looks to his Christian faith in everything he does, and proves it because his walk has matched his talk, is providing a testimony against the militant atheist proselytizers who say Christianity is intrinsically abusive (because they do not understand what they’re talking about).

He is providing no end of confusion for some militant “Ayn Rand” followers, who claimed that Christianity was inherently dictatorial and anti-freedom.

It’s like I’ve shared with some Ron Paul supporters, “gay” and atheists, we would rather be able to remove the distraction of central government mandates in order to love them into the kingdom. A forced conversion to morality is no conversion at all, and it’s better they decide to do what’s right for themselves and others, rather than telling them to and expecting them to just obey.


Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 91 other followers