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If
ye
love wealth better than liberty,
the tranquillity of servitude than the
animating contest of freedom go
from us in peace. We ask not your
counsels or arms. Crouch down and
lick the hands which feed you. May
your chains
sit lightly upon you, and may posterity
forget that ye were our countrymen!
Sam
Adams,
speaking at the State
House in Philadelphia, to
a very numerous audience on
August 1, 1776
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Those were the three
goals of Samuel Adams, one of the architects of the Boston Tea
Party, who also used a network of communication known as "The
Committees of Correspondence" to coach America toward
Independence, and became known as "The
Father of the American Revolution."
If Sam Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, or any other
revolutionary member of the original Tea Party movement could
travel through time and spend a month in your home, what would he
think?
- What would Sam Adams think about the government he
helped create?
- What would he think about the way you
relate to that government?
They would all be ashamed to call you an American.
Sure, you're more of an American than 90% of all
"Americans" today, but that's not saying much.
The U.S. Federal Government prohibits
public schools from teaching students that the Declaration of
Independence is really true. Given that astonishing and
outrageous fact, it would not surprise Sam Adams and John Hancock to
learn that in 2011, the Bill
of Rights no longer means anything, the Constitution has been abandoned,
and we are no longer a Constitutional
Republic.
America was once the most prosperous and most admired
nation in history.
The United States is now utterly and
embarrassingly bankrupt
and despised
even by former admirers.
You too are in debt, and lack the
admirable character of Sam Adams' generation.
You are a victim of educational
malpractice.
Fortunately, this can be reversed in just one year of
participation in the Tea Party Coaching
Program. You will read the Five Most Important Works in
the History of Western Civilization, apply them to your life,
family, neighborhood, and nation, and you will become
- An Extraordinary American
- An Extraordinary Christian
- An Extraordinary Human Being
The average 15-year old in 1776 knew more about what it takes to
be an American than you do in 2011.
- The Boston Tea Party in 1773 involved a tax on tea of 3
pence per pound. You pay ten times more in taxes on every
gallon of gas.
- Adding up the Stamp Act, the tea tax, and all other taxes, put
a tax burden on the American colonists of about 2%. If you pay
one dime in federal income tax, then Washington D.C. is taking
over 50% of everything you earn.
- Did you feel "represented" by the federal government
giving a trillion dollars of your money to Wall Street banks and
bankrupt solar power companies?
- Your money supports a government that prohibits your local
public school teachers from teaching students that the
Declaration of Independence is true.
That is an utterly astonishing fact, if you think about it. But
you don't think. You say nothing. You just pay your taxes.
Oh sure, occasionally you'll put on a powdered wig and spend a
day with other "patriots" with signs that criticize Obama
for doing exactly what George W. Bush did.
But this is all an insult to America's Founding Fathers. They
risked "our Lives, our
Fortunes, and our sacred Honor." Really, now; what similar
risks are you investing?
No intelligent, well-informed person can dispute
the claim that the Bush-Obama regime is a "tyranny"
compared to the "tyranny" of King George III, which
America's Founding Fathers took up arms to abolish.
The Federal Government in Washington D.C. is an
outrageous atheistic tyranny.
But you still want to "reform" tyranny rather than abolish
it.
The Declaration of Independence says we have a duty (not
just a right) to abolish
any government that becomes a tyranny.
- I have to admit that Samuel Adams might not at first say I was
a true American either.
- I believe the Boston Tea Party was an unChristian act of vandalism.
- But if he gave me the same amount of time I'm asking you to
give me,
- I could convince Sam Adams that Americans
were wrong to take up arms in the American Revolution.
- Patrick Henry said, "Give me Liberty or give me
Death."
- I support liberty, and more of it, and more passionately, than
anyone involved in the original Boston Tea Party, but I am
pro-life, and I would say to Patrick Henry, "Better Red
than Dead."
- If America's Founders were stuck in the 21st century in
a time warp, they would hire me as their personal coach to help
each of them become
- An Extraordinary American
- An Extraordinary Christian
- An Extraordinary Human Being
You should hire me as well.
What I Propose
If you can give me at least a half an hour, there are Five
Things I would like to teach you to persuade you to hire
me as your coach. If you hire me, I will guide you into the most
beneficial, massive, lasting personal transformation you
have ever experienced in your entire life. It will completely alter
the way you think about
the world, and it will transform your personal
character. Just as America was once the most prosperous and
admired nation on earth, you will become a person admired by others,
and you will become prosperous and successful, even if you have to
risk "your life, your
fortune, and your sacred honor" and are arrested and
imprisoned first.
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5 Things to Know
5 Books to Read
We're going to transform you into
an Extraordinary American
an Extraordinary Christian
an Extraordinary Human Being
by helping you read the five most important
works in the history of Western Civilization, a little each
day, for the next 365 days. You will study the five subjects
that every colonial teenager had studied by the time he
graduated from high school. The Internet makes it possible to
cram an entire colonial childhood education into one year of
online home study.
But before we tell you the five books we're
going to read, there are five
things you need to know about your deformed
education, your dysfunctional worldview, and your heathen
religion. Conveniently, each of these five
things has three parts.
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The Threefold Challenge of Samuel Adams
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If he were alive today, Samuel Adams would want you to
become
an Extraordinary American
an Extraordinary Christian
an Extraordinary Human Being
These were the three goals he set before the colonists in
1772 when he circulated his
first letter through a network of communication known as
"the Committees of Correspondence." A few years
later he would sign the Declaration of Independence.
Most Americans already think they are exceptional, if not
extraordinary. In international academic competitions,
Americans score 27th in math, but first in self-esteem,
meaning that Americans think they are the greatest, even
though they are not.
I won't be able to persuade you to enroll in TeaPartyCoaching
unless I can get you to see yourself more
objectively.
If Samuel Adams were here to day, and could observe you,
your government, your culture, and your reaction to
the world around you, Samuel Adams would be forced to
conclude that you
- are NOT a REAL American
- are NOT a GENUINE Christian
- are NOT a good steward of the gifts and potential with
which you have been endowed by your Creator as a human
being created in His Image.
What is a REAL AMERICAN?
What is a GENUINE CHRISTIAN?
What makes us TRULY HUMAN?
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What is a
"REAL" American?
A real American believes that the Declaration
of Independence is really true.
There are people living within our borders who
do not. They may be hard-working, they may love their
families, they may be nice neighbors, and they may never break
"the
Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." But they are
here on a temporary work visa, sending money back home. But
even though you couldn't pick them out of a crowd of
Americans, they are not Americans. They were born in another
country and plan to return there someday.
Imagine someone who was born here. Call him
"Jones." Jones is a U.S. citizen by birth. Jones
thinks all immigrants like the one in the previous paragraph
should all be killed. He thinks the government should run all
businesses, and take money from hard-working people like the
one in the previous paragraph and redistribute the money to
Jones. Like Hitler, Jones thinks the government should shut
down all synagogues and Christian churches.
In my opinion, Jones is not a real American.
A real American believes in "Liberty
Under God."
A real American will also risk
something to protect "Liberty Under God."
We have not just a right, but a duty
to abolish any government that becomes destructive of our
right to life, liberty and property -- in other words, a
government that will not allow us to live in peace. If you
believe the government has a right to kill us, enslave us, and
confiscate our property, then you are a communist, not an
American. And if you believe that the government has the right
to kill, enslave, and steal from foreigners,
then you are not a good Christian.
Most people living in the United States today
are lousy Americans and are not Christians.
True Americans rejected an Empire which sent
Red Coats to impose colonial rule. True Christians reject the Empire
which sends predator drones to Afghanistan.
I deem [one of] the essential principles of
our government, and consequently [one] which ought to shape
its administration,
peace,
commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling
alliances with none.
Jefferson, First
Inaugural Address (1801)
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You are
not a Real American
Nobody who signed the Declaration of
Independence or the Constitution would consider YOU to be a real
American -- unless the mainstream calls you an "extremist."
But you will be an "extremist" when
you finish this program.
Men like Sam Adams and John Hancock were
"extremists."
They tossed tea into the Boston Harbor and called their
government a "tyranny."
You, on the other hand, are a zombie. You work your boring
9-5 job like a worker-drone. You say nothing when the
government takes your paycheck for a Wall Street "bailout."
You say nothing when your government kills
more children in Iraq than it did people in Hiroshima.
The tax on tea, the "Stamp Act"
taxes, and all other taxes combined
added up to only 1%
or 2% of the colonists' income. The tax
burden today is 20-50 times
greater than it was under George III in 1776. The
Pentagon consumes a trillion dollars a year. This is theft.
You pay your taxes because you do not want to be locked up
in prison with a psychopath. You don't want to imagine
the violence you will experience if you don't pay up.
A real American believes in "the
American Dream."
What is "the American Dream?"
Most people in the U.S.A. believe the
American Dream is "owning" a home with a
fixed-rate, low-interest mortgage. Everyone who signed the
Declaration of Independence would say that paying a quarter
of a million dollars in interest over 30 years on a $100,000
home is a nightmare, not a dream.
George Washington described the American
Dream as living safely under your own "vine and fig
tree."
Where did Washington get that phrase?
The Bible.
Find out
more about the "Vine & Fig Tree" vision.
A Real
American is a Christian
On May 2, 1778, when the Continental Army had emerged
from its infamous winter at Valley Forge, Commander-in-Chief
George Washington issued the following:
The commander-in-chief
directs that divine service be performed every Sunday at
eleven o'clock in those brigades [in] which there are
chaplains; those which have none [are] to attend the
places of worship nearest to them. It is expected that
officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an
example to their men. While we are zealously performing
the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly
ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of
religion. To the distinguished character of patriot, it
should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished
character of Christian. The signal instances
of providential
goodness which we have experienced, and which have now
almost crowned our labors with complete success, demand
from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of
gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.
The
Writings of George Washington,
JC Fitzpatrick, ed., Wash. DC: US Gov't Printing Office,
1932, Vol. XI:342-343, General Orders of 5/2/1778
On May 12, 1779, in a speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs,
Washington coached them:
You do well to wish to
learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the
religion of Jesus Christ. These will make
you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress
will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise
intention.
The
Writings of George Washington, JC Fitzpatrick, ed.,
Wash. DC: US Gov't Printing Office, 1932, Vol 15, p.55.
John Witherspoon was undoubtedly one of the
most influential educators of his day. His students at
Princeton University included one President, one Vice
President, three Supreme Court Justices, 10 Cabinet members,
12 Governors, 60 Congressmen (21 Senators; 39
Representatives) plus scores of state officials and members
of the Constitutional Convention. Witherspoon said
" . . .
he is the best friend to American liberty, who is most
sincere and active in promoting true
and undefiled religion, and who sets
himself with the greatest firmness to bear down profanity
and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy
of God, I scruple not [would not hesitate] to call him an
enemy to his country."[source]
Most Americans today are enemies of America.
That is, enemies of the ideal that America's Founding
Fathers fought for: Liberty
Under God. The "Vine
& Fig Tree" society.
To be a great American, America's Founders
said, you have to be a Christian.
But You
are NOT A Real Christian
Jesus Christ said it's better to be dogmatic
and wrong than it is to be apathetic and air-headed.
It's better to be a Nazi or a Communist than to be a
"moderate."
I know your works, that you
are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or
hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold
nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Revelation
3:15-16
Americans are air-heads. They are more
concerned with being accepted by the mainstream and the
majority than they are pursuing the truth. The majority of
Americans think of themselves as being independent "non-conformists"
in some sense, and everyone conforms
to this illusion together.
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You know less about American "arts
and ways of life, and above all, the
religion of Jesus Christ" than
the Delaware Indians did. You know less about Christianity
than the average 10-year old in colonial America.
Samuel Adams would say you are a victim of educational
malpractice, being a product of an education system which is
prohibited from teaching students that the Declaration of
Independence is really true. George Washington would say you
need to be re-educated, de-programmed, and connected in an
online community with others who wish to become
extraordinary Americans.
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Three Subjects Banned
From
Your Government-Approved Education
You went to school where the Declaration of Independence
was banned. Not as an archaic, irrelevant historical
artifact, but as truth.
You have been systematically deprived of the
three things that every single person who signed
the Constitution would say are a necessary part of a basic
American education. These three things are specifically
mentioned in America's Organic Law. But you were never
taught that America's Organic
Law consists of the most fundamental charters of
America's government. Now that you know what the
"Organic Law" is, you still don't know what
fundamental documents it contains. Article III of one of
them says this:
Religion,
morality, and knowledge being
necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind,
schools and the means of education shall forever be
encouraged. The utmost good faith shall always be observed
towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never
be taken from them without their consent . . . .
The Organic Law of America not only recognizes our
dependence on and duty
towards God, but specifies where we should learn about our
Creator (religion),
the rights with which He has endowed us, and our duties
toward Him and our fellow man (morality).
Today, our schools and government are "secular"
(atheistic) and confiscating property from others without
their consent -- armed robbery -- is the heart and soul of
our vast "entitlement" social programs. You were
cheated out of an education which began with "Thou
shalt not steal" and "Thou
shalt not kill."
The Christian Religion and Christian morality were to
be taught in public schools.
Even though Justice Douglas concurred in Engel
v. Vitale, the case which removed Christianity from
public schools in the early 1960's, he was honest enough to
admit that
Religion was once deemed to be a function of the
public school system.
Justice
Douglas then quoted the Article above. Then he proceeded
to ignore the law he swore to uphold, and removed
"religion and morality" from public schools.
Soon after that, knowledge
was removed from public schools, because when some kids have
knowledge, that hurts the "self-esteem" of those
who don't. Away with grades, away with knowledge! America's
youth no longer score #1 on international tests.
The average teenager in 1776 knew more about
what it means to be a great American, a great Christian, and
a great Human Being than you do. Transport the average
teenager from 1776 to our time and that teenager could
figure out how to use your Blackberry, your remote control,
and drive your SUV in a matter of days, but it would take
you months, maybe years, to learn as much about geography,
morality, history, religion, political science, virtue, and
develop the habits of character which the average American
possessed in 1776.
Reading the Bible is the first step in our
year-long program to impose a colonial American education on
you. If you already know how to read and write, the Internet
now makes it possible for you to experience the same
childhood education that George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock experienced. Their
education made it inevitable that they would abolish
the government -- a government which they described as a
"tyranny."
In his Farewell Address, Washington reminded the nation:
Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to
political prosperity, Religion,
and Morality
are indispensable supports.In vain would that man claim
the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert
these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest
props of the duties of Men and Citizens.
The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought
to respect and to cherish them.A volume could not trace
all their connexions with private and public
felicity.Let it simply be asked where is the security
for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of
religious obligation desert the oaths,
which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of
Justice? And let
us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can
be maintained without religion.Whatever may be
conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of
peculiar structurereason
and experience both forbid us to expect, that national
morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Religion is a public, not just a private
matter. You can't be a good American citizen
if you ignore Christianity. Atheism is contrary to reason.
Sam Adams said,
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws
will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose
manners are universally corrupt.
His cousin, John Adams, said:
[W]e have no government armed with power capable of
contending with human passions unbridled by morality and
religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral
and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the
government of any other.
[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish
the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The
only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.
Sam Adams wrote to his cousin John:
- Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots,
unite their endeavors to renovate the age, by impressing
the minds of men with the importance of educating their
little boys and girls, of inculcating in the minds of
youth the fear and love of the Deity. . . and, in
subordination to these great principles, the love of
their country. . . . In short,
of leading them in the study and practice of the exalted
virtues of the Christian system.
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Letter to John Adams, 1790, who wrote
back: "You
and I agree."
Four
Letters: Being an Interesting Correspondence Between
Those Eminently Distinguished Characters, John Adams,
Late President of the United States; and Samuel Adams,
Late Governor of Massachusetts. On the Important Subject
of Government
(Boston: Adams and Rhoades, 1802)
pp. 9-10
This is exactly what TeaPartyCoaching
will do for you. You
can compensate for what the federal government denied you as
a little boy or girl by enrolling in TeaPartyCoaching. |
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Three Huge Mistakes America's Founders Made
and
why you must avoid them
We have great respect for America's Founding Fathers, but
we're not interested in deifying them, as some Americans
have done.
In fact, we think they all made some really huge
mistakes. Mistakes that we're still paying for today.
Mistakes that could very soon bring our entire economy to a
screeching halt, with international repercussions.
We want you to be transformed and succeed in achieving
Samuel Adams' goals. But Samuel Adams made some big
mistakes.
- He joined men like John Hancock and Paul Revere to
protest British trade and tax policies in an event that
can only be described as an unChristian act of vandalism
("The Boston Tea Party").
- Adams went on to become known as "The
Father of the American Revolution," a violent
war that saw Christians killing Christians over the most
pitifully
insignificant taxes in U.S. history.
- Not listening to the arguments of Patrick Henry
("Give me liberty or give me death!")
George Mason ("Father of the Bill of Rights")
and the "anti-federalists," Sam Adams
supported the Constitution of 1789. This Constitution
would eventually produce the Bush-Obama Regime, an evil,
atheistic tyranny.
I want to believe Samuel Adams was a better man
that all that. I think he would see where his mistakes led,
and would repudiate them. Were he alive today, he would work
to repeal the Constitution, abolish the government it
created, and do this without vandalizing a tea company,
picking up a musket, or igniting a canon, consistent with
the best ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
We'll make it easier to remember these three huge
mistakes by summarizing them in three words that begin with
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Mistake Number One: "Rights"
They
emphasized "rights"
instead of duties.
Americans today think they have a "right"
to a first-class education, a high-paying job, wonder-working
healthcare, and just about everything they want -- all free,
of course.
This "entitlement"
mentality is bankrupting
America.
The Bible says to work six days and rest on the sabbath,
but modern Americans want to play six days and work only if
absolutely necessary. We are disconnected from our
calling to work and "exercise
dominion" over the earth. We substitute military
domination for Biblical dominion through service.
We all want something for nothing.
America's Founders did speak of duties (in a way and to a
degree that public schools today cannot), but their talk about
"rights undercut and negated their talk about duties.
You ask,
"What's wrong with human rights?"
If America's Founders could see America in 2012, they would
see immediately what's wrong with "rights."
Ill give you an example.
None of us has a "right to life."
- We all have a duty not to kill, but life is a gift,
and we don't have a claim on life. God wasnt obligated
to create us, fearing that if He didnt, He would
violate our right to life.
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- Only the Sovereign has rights.
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- George Washington understood that God was Sovereign, but
he inconsistently flattered Americans with talk about
their rights.
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- Todays concept of rights is destroying America.
- The absence of a sense of a Duty to God is also
destroying America.
Has your mind been polluted by this toxic
concept?
You must avoid this mistake because it prevents you from
becoming a servant of others (Mark
10:42-45), as we'll see below.
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Romans
12-13
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Peter 2:13ff
Matthew
5:38ff
Luke
17:7-10
Jude
8-10 / 2
Peter 2:10-12
Many
Jews in Jesus' day expected the
coming Messiah to overthrow the
Roman Empire in a great military
battle. The "Zealots" were
constantly ready to resist the
Romans and foment violent
revolution. Jesus disappointed them
all.
Everybody
has heard Jesus' line about going
"the second mile." Not one
out of a thousand Americans
understands its historical context,
and can apply it to geo-political
affairs today.
Imagine
Italy invades Israel. You may have
to imagine that some 21st-century
Mussolini emerges to rescue Italy
from bankruptcy and raise it to an
imposing industrial power. Imagine
further than Italian soldiers are on
every corner in Israel, imposing
Italian rule on Israeli citizens.
Now imagine that Italian soldiers
are authorized to conscript Israelis
to carry the soldiers backpacks for
up to one mile. You can easily
imagine that Israelis would be
infuriated by this legal
enslavement, to say nothing of the
whole military occupation and
collection of forced tribute gig.
Now
imagine Benjamin Netanyahu telling
Israelis not to resist the
conscription, but carry the soldiers
provisions for an extra mile. How
long would Netanyahu remain in
office?
But
that's exactly
what Jesus told His hearers to do.
Do not resist armed invasion and
occupation, even if it violates
human rights and international law.
This
one verse completely overthrows
modern concepts of war,
defense,
and national
security.
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Mistake Number Two: Revolution
They
took up arms to abolish the government.
They
overthrew the government by force and violence.
Abolishing tyranny
is a good idea. But not with muskets and cannons. Killing a
human being created in the Image of God just because that
human being is an IRS agent and wants to take your money --
this is not a Christian thing to do.
Nothing could be clearer from the teachings of Jesus and
the Apostles than that we must not take up arms to overthrow
Caesar. Understanding these commandments will require you to
make a complete turn-around in your thinking.
- Violent revolution is always wrong, but getting out your
musket and killing other Christians is even
- worse.
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- When you enroll in TeaPartyCoaching,
you'll study the Bible and find out that Jesus clearly
taught that Christians should not overthrow even the most
barbaric, violent, oppressive tyranny in history: the
Roman Empire that imposed a military occupation of Israel.
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- Britain in 1776 was certainly more civilized and
Christian than the Roman Empire, but Jesus and
the Apostles firmly prohibited resisting even the pagan
military occupation of Israel and attempting to overthrow
Caesar by violent revolution.
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- And this was not for tactical reasons or considerations
of prudence or the likelihood of success.
- Violent revolution is contrary to Christian ethics even
if it can succeed.
- Followers of Christ
don't kill their enemies.
- They convert
them. They pray for them.
- They preach the Word of God,
- the Spirit bears witness to the
Word,
- the hearts of the enemy are
changed
- and they repent
of socialism, fascism
- military occupation and
totalitarianism.
- When they repent, they resign
their political office.
- They end imperial conquest and confiscation.
- They end their enslavement and conscription of others.
- We preach; they repent.
- That's the Christian goal, not blowing their brains out.
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- America would be a very different nation if we had
obeyed our duties
instead of killing for our rights.
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- Abolishing tyranny
is a good idea. But not with muskets and cannons. Killing
a human being created in the Image of God just because
that human being is an IRS agent and wants to take your
money -- this is not a Christian thing to do.
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Mistake Number Three: Representation
- After they abolished
the government,
They replaced
the government they abolished with a new one.
- Yes, that was a
mistake.
And you'll see why, and you'll have an
alternative, after you read two of the five great works that
we cover in the TeaPartyCoaching
program.
One of the rallying cries in the American Revolution was
"No Taxation without Representation."
"Representation" in our day means those who pay
no taxes can elect politicians to tax the rich and give to
those who aren't.
The tax on tea that gave rise to the Boston Tea Party was
only 3 pence per pound of tea. We pay TEN TIMES MORE than
that on every gallon of gas. The overall tax rate in 1776
was 2% or 3% max. If you pay one dime in federal income tax,
the government is taking over 60% of everything you earn.
Personally, I would rather have colonial tax rates
without representation than "representation" and
TRILLIONS of dollars of government theft and waste.
What gives Smith the right to elect a
"representative" to steal from Jones?
- Following the end of the war in 1783, Washington
returned to private life and retired to his plantation at
Mount Vernon. He
spoke of his desire
to live safely under his own Vine & Fig Tree,
prompting an incredulous King George III to state,
"If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the
world."
Despite his yearnings, Washington came out of retirement to
preside over the Constitutional Convention and become
President of the United States of America.
Was this a mistake? Would Washington have been a greater
American if he hadn't? Did America really need a President?
Did Israel really
need a king?
- Patrick Henry (Give me liberty or give me Death)
refused to support the Constitution.
- I smell a rat in Philadelphia, he said.
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- He was right. So was George Mason, the Father of the
Bill of Rights, who also opposed the new constitution.
At first, Samuel Adams was an opponent of the Constitution
of 1787. Eventually Adams agreed to support it. Patrick Henry
never did.
Patrick Henry was right. So was George Mason. So were other
noted
Anti-Federalists:
One can also argue that Thomas Jefferson expressed
several anti-federalist thoughts throughout his life, but that
his involvement in the discussion was limited, since he was
stationed as Ambassador to France while the debate over
federalism was going on in America in the Federalist
papers and Anti-Federalist
Papers.
The Constitution, with its "separation of
powers," "checks and balances," and theory of
"enumerated powers," failed to prevent the rise of
an atheistic
tyranny.
Madison, Hamilton, and John Jay sold America on a
Constitution which they claimed would prevent the rise of
another tyranny.
They were wrong.
As great as the Constitution was, it could not prevent a
tyranny worse than the one America abolished in a war from
1775-1783.
Every single person who signed the Declaration of
Independence and/or the Constitution would take immediate
steps to begin abolishing our present government if they were
here in 2012.
And because America's Founding Fathers were excellent
students of history, if they could see the history of the
world from 1789 to 2012, they would become the most radical of
libertarians.
They gave us what they called "an Experiment in
Liberty," and America became the most prosperous and
admired nation in history. Washington D.C. abandoned that
experiment in the 20th century, embarking on an experiment in government
central planning. Everywhere this experiment was tried --
Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union -- it left poverty and mass
death.
Sam Adams would see that we need to abolish the current
tyranny, and replace it with nothing but "the
Invisible Hand" of 100% unregulated, Laissez-faire
capitalism.
You're thinking: "Those greedy capitalists will exploit
the poor!"
As if greedy politicians don't.
But your moral concerns are valid.
That's why George Washington, Samuel Adams and nearly all
of America's Founding Fathers believed American education had
to be centered on "religion, morality and
knowledge.".
From a Christian perspective, two things characterize pure
religion. They can be summed up in the words of the Apostle
James:
Pure religion
and undefiled
before God and the Father is this,
To
visit the fatherless
and widows in their affliction, and
to
keep oneself unspotted from the world.
James
1:27
This is why voluntary
charities were everywhere in early America, and why welfare
has now been nationalized by the State.
How do libertarians respond to the accusation that they do
not have enough trust
in government? John Adams wrote in 1772:
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free
government ought to be to trust no man living with power
to endanger the public liberty."
Should libertarians have more confidence in their
government? Thomas Jefferson, 1799:
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism.
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in
confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which
prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we
are obliged to trust with power.
In questions of power,
then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind
him down from mischief by the chains
of the Constitution.
James Madison warned the people of Virginia (1799):
the nation which reposes on the pillow of political
confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence
in a deadly lethargy.
Madison added in Federalist No. 55,
[T]here is a degree of depravity
in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection
and distrust. . . .
Trusting government, having "confidence in
government," is un-American.
The British historian Lord Acton put it this
way:
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts
absolutely. Great
men are almost always bad men, even when they
exercise influence and not authority; still more when you
superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by
authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office
sanctifies the holder of it.
The exercise of political power is problematic. We should
assume that "great men" -- that is, powerful
men -- men who wield the force of "the government"
-- are morally corrupt. This assumption should be considered
confirmed if he increases his own power during his time
of "public service."
Why
a Bill of Rights? | Walter Williams
Why
Bad Men Rule | Hans-Hermann Hoppe
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for any
assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the
people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men
in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to
govern. They promise to be good masters ... but they mean to
be masters."
~ Daniel
Webster
But if the Constitution of 1787 was a failure, could any
constitution succeed?
No.
And this leads us to a very radical conclusion.
Or perhaps I should say, to a very hated conclusion.
In fact, the three huge mistakes we've been discussing lead
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What is
"Government?"
The
war was revolutionary. It began by
the dissolution of the British
Government in the Colonies; the
People of which were, by that
operation, left without any
Government whatever.
John
Quincy Adams on Independence
Actually, America was still
characterized by "self-government."
The word "government"
can be used in different ways.
- Personal responsibility is
"self-government."
- We can speak of a
"well-governed
family."
- The owner of a business
imposes a form of government
on his employees.
In family, school, neighborhood
association, and groups of all
kinds, there is
"government." When we
obey "the
Laws of Nature and of Nature's God,"
our society is orderly, peaceful,
harmonious and well-governed.
James Madison, "the Father of
the Constitution," is reported
to have said,
We have staked the whole
future of American civilization,
not upon the power of
government, far from it. We have
staked the future of all of our
political institutions upon the
capacity of each and all of us to
govern ourselves ...
according to the Ten
Commandments of God.
Every individual and every
business and institution created
by voluntary associations of
individuals is morally obligated
to be well-governed, and to
respect the rights of others to life,
liberty,
and property.
"Self-government"
creates a society of "Liberty
and Justice for
all."
What is
"THE
Government?"
"Self-government" --
following the commandments of God
-- is what it means to be human.
But "the
government" ("the
State") claims the right to
seize the property of others by
force, have those who
resist beaten
and raped, and kill
all those who get in the way.
"Self-government" is vitrue.
"The
government" is violence.
George Washington is reported
to have said,
Government is not reason, it
is not eloquence it is force.
Like fire it is a dangerous
servant and a fearful master. .
. .
It is for this reason that
libertarians do not trust
"the government." They
are often portrayed as being
"anti-government."
But it is this "anti-government"
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The Myth of
"Representation"
The idea of "the Consent
of the Governed" was derived
from the Bible. But is it
really Biblical?
One of the rallying cries in
the American Revolution was
"No Taxation without
Representation."
"Representation" in
our day means those who pay no
taxes can elect politicians to tax
the rich and give to those who
aren't.
"Representation" in
our day means we can elect
politicians to kill a million
muslims to keep our gas prices
down.
Where in the Bible does God
give permission for one group of
people to initiate force against
another group and to confiscate
money by force from a third group
to fund the acts of vengeance and
violence?
"Representative
Government" is not a Biblical
substitute for "self
government."
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Thing
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The Three Most Hated Words in Politics Today
and
why you must embrace them
- Theocracy
- Pacifism
- Anarchism
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Most Hated Word #1 - THEOCRACY!
Literally, "God rules."
The First Huge Mistake made by America's Founding Fathers
was the concept of "rights."
We saw that the proper approach was to ground life, liberty
and property (or the "pursuit of happiness") in our
social duties not to kill, steal, kidnap, bear false
witness, etc.
Why is it I have a duty not to kill you? Where does this
duty come from? There are many
theories in the universities, but none stand up to
examination or can be lived out consistently in practice. The
best protection for "human rights" is a strong sense
of duty to God. America's Founding Fathers were
unanimous in the conviction that a nation cannot remain free
if it ignores its duties toward God. These duties are spelled
out in the Declaration of Independence: "The
Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." That linked
webpage shows pretty conclusively that America's Founders
understood that phrase to refer to the Bible.
We want our nation to be "under
God," not a government that thinks it is
God.
America used to be a nation "under God."
That's why America has always been a Christian Theocracy.
Everybody at the ACLU and every anti-theocracy action group
on the Left agrees that New England was Theocratic from the
early 1600's and for a few generations thereafter. If you try
to get the Shorter Catechism taught in public schools, someone
will accuse you of trying to "impose a theocracy,"
even though the Catechism was in every classroom in every
colony in America in 1776.
Before the Declaration of Independence was signed, every
one of the 13 colonies was a Christian Theocracy.
Did the Declaration of Independence change this? Did the
Declaration secularize America?
Of course not. If you try to get the Declaration of
Independence taught as truth in public secular schools today,
you will be accused of "trying to impose a
theocracy." The Declaration of Independence from Britain
is also a Declaration of Dependence on God.
A "theocracy" is where God rules. George
Washington described God as "the
ruler of nations." Notably, nations that are called
"Christian Nations." England was one of those
"Christian nations." So was America.
The Constitution did not secularize the 13 Theocracies.
They wouldn't have ratified the Constitution if they had known
or suspected that it would do to America what has been done to
America in the name of the Constitution. Nobody treated the
Constitution as a document that secularized the 13
Theocracies. Read about their actions here.
See the links in the box at right.
America was a Christian Theocracy from 1600 to 1800 and
beyond. In 1892 the Supreme Court of the United States still declared
that America was a Christian nation.
A Christian Theocracy is not the same thing as a Muslim
Theocracy. A Theocracy led by the Prince of Peace is different
from a theocracy led by a god of war. A Christian Theocracy is
a "Vine & Fig Tree"
society where Christ is King in heaven. No state-church. No
church-state. No state-priests. No church-police.
We're going to read about this during the next 365 days. Details
here.
On the day after the Constitution went into effect in March
of 1789, America and each one of the 13 united States was a
Christian Theocracy.
As a militant non-violent Peacemaker, you are going to join
other extraordinary Americans in undertaking the task of
abolishing the U.S. government and making America a Christian
Theocracy again.
America's Founders agreed that our nation must be "under
God" -- the true God, not Osama bin Ladin's God --
and thus a Christian Theocracy, governed by the true
religion.
From a Christian perspective, two things characterize pure
religion. They can be summed up in the words of the Apostle
James:
Pure religion
and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
To visit
the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and
to keep
oneself unspotted from the world.
James
1:27
This is why voluntary
charities were everywhere in early America, and why welfare
has now been nationalized by the State.
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Ozarks Virtual
Town Hall
- May 24th, 2008:
"Memorial
Day"
- May 17th, 2008:
"60th
Anniversary of the State of
Israel"
- May 10th, 2008:
"Mother's
Day"
It's
a war between mothers and
"archists"
- April 12th,
2008: Assessing
"The Surge" in Iraq
- April 5th,
2008: Expanding
the Entangling NATO Alliance
- March 16, 2008:
St.
Patrick and U.S. Foreign Policy
Click
here for notes and resources
- March 8th,
2008: Government
Torture of Terrorist Suspects
- February 23,
2008: The
Protect Telecommunications
Companies Act
- February 16,
2008: The
Protect America Act
- January 12,
2008: The
President's Plan for Israel
- January 5,
2008: The
President's Entangling Alliances
in the Mideast
- December 15,
2007: Defense
Appropriations
- November 10,
2007: "Veterans
Day"
September
15, 2007: General
Petraeus Reports on Iraq
- September 8,
2007: Iraq:
From "Dark Ideology"
to "Normal Life."
August
25, 2007: A
"Safer and More Normal
Life" in Iraq
July 28,
2007: Expanding
Powers of Government
Surveillance
- July 21, 2007: Intelligence
Estimate on the Terrorist Threat
- July 14, 2007: Progress
in Iraq?
- May 26, 2007: Memorial
Day
- May 5, 2007: The
Funding of the War in Iraq
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Most Hated Word #2: Pacifism
The Second Huge Mistake made by the Founders was to take up
arms against the Empire in a violent revolution.
If you're not allowed to resist an Empire, you're not
allowed to resist lesser enemies. In the Sermon on the Mount,
Jesus commanded, "Resist not evil." He also said
"Blessed are the
Peacemakers."
Pacifism is clearly at the heart of being a Christian
Peacemaker.
Pacifism is a critical issue in our day.
"Pacifists" are often criticized for being
willing to stand by and do nothing while their wife or
daughter is raped.
This is slanderous, a violation of the Ninth
Commandment.
Pacifists continually meet objections like those of Samuel
Bacchiocchi, who said:
It would be morally irresponsible to turn over one's wife
to a rapist just to "keep peace."
This is a "straw man." Such critics cannot name a
single pacifist who would do nothing to try to prevent or stop
a rape. I've never met a pacifist (and I've met hundreds and
lived with several) who would say to a rapist, "Here she
is. Go for it. And peace to you." A pacifist believes in
the existence of evil, and believes violence
is evil. A pacifist opposes violence because violence is
evil, and a pacifist wants to eliminate or prevent evil. A
pacifist would take prudent steps to stop evil, avoid evil,
catch evil off guard, and evangelize evil, but would not -- as
many non-pacifists seem to advocate -- start out immediately
with lethal force. Many 2nd Amendment zealots would pull out
their gun at the drop of the hat. At least that's the way they
talk. Probably they are a bit more rational. Like Bacchiocchi.
Here's a simple question that will prove
you are a pacifist.
Imagine you are "Star Trek" Captain Kirk of the
U.S.S. Enterprise. You are walking down the street of a planet
in the Deltoid Galaxy with one of your never-ending stream of
beautiful women at your arm, when a large burly alien with the
tattoo "I AM A RAPIST" across
his forehead jumps out from a dark alley, grabs your female
companion and says "I'm going to rape this woman!"
You pull out your Phazer gun and . .
. here's the question:
Do you set the Phazer to "stun" and quickly put
the rapist to sleep and call the proper authorities, or do
you set your Phazer to "maximum molecular
disruption" and utterly obliterate the rapist, ending
his life?
When given such a choice, only a sociopath would choose
annihilation or lethal force. Everyone else is a
"pacifist." It's that simple.
What happens if you're consistent with this innate,
conscientious pacifism?
Answer: you will begin to change the world.
In many ways the most violent world in recorded history.
Christ is the Prince of Peace. His vassal-subjects must be
committed to Peace. The Prince of Peace commanded us to love
our enemies. True Christians are willing to follow Christ to
the cross (Matthew 16:25; 1 Peter 2:21).
But the religion of Secular Humanism (America's
State religion) teaches vengeance.
Modern Man believes it's better to make someone else die for
you than to give your life for another. Entire populations are
organized on the principle of institutionalized
vengeance.
Most people don't want to be called a "pacifist,"
but more and more people are adopting a social philosophy
which is very close: the "Non-Aggression
Principle" or "Zero-Aggression
Principle."
This principle is at the heart of modern defenses of capitalism.
"Capitalism" means many things to many people,
especially those who oppose it. Most mainstream voices, even
"conservative" voices (e.g., Fox News) would not
call themselves defenders of "capitalism," much less
"laissez-faire capitalism." Most of those who openly
call themselves defenders of "capitalism" rely on
the Non-Aggression Principle.
The most consistent adherents of the Zero-Aggression
Principle call themselves "anarcho-capitalists."
More about both Capitalism and Anarchism
below.
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Most Hated Word #3: Anarchism
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The Third Big Mistake made by America's Founders
was to reinstate a government when they had just succeeded in
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- If they were logically consistent with
their ideals, America's Founding Fathers would not have
replaced the government they abolished with another.
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- Tragically, America's Founders were men of their age,
products of their times,
And they labored under the
mistaken belief that God
commands men to form civil governments.
This was the third huge mistake they made.
- The time has come to bury this belief.
- It's time to put the Bible ahead of human traditions.
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- The government America's Founders created
- turned out to be
- more tyrannical than the government
- they abolished.
- They sold the Constitution to America
- as a document of "enumerated powers,"
- checks and balances, separation of powers,
- and popular representation that would
- prevent another tyranny from arising.
Or so they said.
- Their Constitution failed miserably.
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- Every Single person who signed the Constitution
- in a convention presided over by George Washington
- was concerned about tyranny,
- and worked diligently to prevent it.
- But they would all admit
- that today's government is
- a greater tyranny
- than the one they abolished,
- and the Constitution is a complete
failure
- as a document intended to protect our so-called
"rights."
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- The tax on tea in 1775 was three pence per pound.
- The tax on gas today is ten times greater.
- The total tax
burden today is 20 times
greater than all the taxes imposed on the
colonies by Britain combined.
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- And the British government never dreamed
- of using the tax revenue they collected to
- fund abortions,
- or pull copies of the
Ten Commandments
- off classroom walls
or Courthouse
plazas.
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- Instead of declaring that we had a "right" to
- "No Taxation without Representation,"
- We should have said,
- politicians
have a duty to God
not to steal.
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- The British Empire was not as atheistic or totalitarian
as our government is today.
- Washington and the Founders would be horrified at our tolerance
for atheistic tyranny.
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- Once you admit that some men have the
right
- to rule over others, on what basis do you
stop them
- from "going too far?"
- This question has never been successfully answered
in
the history of political science.
- It certainly hasn't been answered in America.
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about Romans 13?
We'll
cover that.
Believe
me; we'll cover that.
See
also here.
The
common understanding of Romans 13
and the Biblical doctrine of the
State is more of a bumper sticker or
sound-bite than a complete theory of
the State that takes into account
the entire Bible.
This
is not a difficult or complex issue.
It simply requires a degree of
boldness to say "yes" to
the Bible and to reject the theories
of human institutions.
You
will have many questions and
objections to these ideas. If you
have the courage to wrestle with the
ideas with an open mind, then iron
will sharpen iron.
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An-archism = Opposition to Archism
Archism =
Institutionalized Vengeance/Violence
If you oppose violence, then you reject the concept of
imposing your will on other people by initiating force against
them or threatening them with violence.
But that's what "the State" is. The whole idea of
"the State" is to use force to accomplish some
personal or social goal, or eliminate some personal or social
obstacle.
A logically consistent pacifist is an anarchist.
Jesus was a pacifist, therefore He was an anarchist.
We were taught in our government school civics class that
"anarchists" are bad. The dictionary tells us that
the word comes from the Greek words a-
meaning "not" and "archist."
But we were never told what an "archist" is.
It turns out that "an-archists" are good people.
It is "archists" who are bad.
When most people hear the word "anarchist" they
think of a bomb-throwing assassin who doesn't believe in
private property. But in fact, during the 20th century,
"archists" -- the government opponents of
"anarchism" -- dropped more bombs and confiscated
more private property in a single day than so-called
"anarchists" did in an entire year.
But mostly, when people hear the word "anarchist"
they think of someone who is against "the
government."
- I believe in a well-governed, orderly society.
So why a defense of "anarchism?"
Because the greatest threat to a well-governed, orderly
society, is the institution that drops the most bombs,
assassinates the most people, and confiscates the most private
property.
That dangerous force is none other than "the
government."
Mark 10:42-45
The classic passage in which Jesus forbids
us to be "archists"
(and thereby commands us to be "anarchists") is Mark
10:42-45
But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them,
"You know that those who are considered rulers
over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones
exercise authority over them. {43} Yet it shall not
be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among
you shall be your servant. {44} And whoever of you desires
to be first shall be slave of all. {45} "For even the
Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to
give His life a ransom for many."
The word translated "rulers"
comes from the Greek word from which we derive our word
"anarchist." Jesus clearly says His followers are not
to be "archists,"
and that means we are to be "an-archists." In fact,
God hates archists.
Archists attempt to convince us that when things don't go
the way we would like them to go, we can resort to violence
to change matters. Even if nothing will be changed by
violence, that's OK, because making them suffer who made us
suffer is called "justice." Archists thus believe in
institutionalized vengeance.
Aren't "Anarchists" Lawless and
Disorderly?
No. Archists are.
When the mainstream media uses the word
"anarchist," they don't mean someone who opposes the
vengeance, violence, and coercion of "archism." They
mean someone who engages in riots, assassinations, destruction
of private property, and creation of chaos and disorder.
But it is archists, not anarchists, who do the most
assassinating, destruction of property, and creation of
disorder. The picture of riots, overturning cars, bricks
through windows, are acts of little wanna-be archists, who
oppose one violent archist order only because they themselves
want to set up a new archist order, with them in charge, with
them disbursing violence, with them ordering the troops to
arrest, imprison and execute the "capitalist pigs."
What the mainstream media calls "anarchy" is
really "multi-archy" or "poly-archy." It
is certainly not the absence of archist coercion and violence.
Archists are in rebellion against the True Source of Law
and Order, Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. The history of
the world and especially the history of America makes clear
this correlation:
More "government" = more
disorder and lawlessness
"Anarchists"
- believe that no person or group of people should
"rule" over other people
- believe that no one has the right to initiate force
against others
- believe that no person or group of people has a right to
steal, kidnap or kill.
"Archists"
- believe they have the right to "rule" over
others
- believe they have the right to initiate force against
others
- believe they have the right to steal ("tax"),
kidnap ("conscript") and kill ("smart
bomb")
(or to "vote" for someone to do
it for them).
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Embrace Those Three Hated Words
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In order to become a Peacemaker you must be
willing to take the barbs of those who believe in war and
conflict. You will be called a "wimp!" You will be
told you need to "stand up for your rights!" Some
people just throw out insults at you to justify their refusal
to listen, to forgive, to make sacrifices -- in short, their
refusal to follow the Prince
of Peace.
If they absolutely refuse to listen to reason, and simply
want to insult you, you can only pray that God will soften
their hearts so you can talk on another day.
But if a person insults you as being
"unrealistic," "impractical," or
"utopian," and still seems willing to talk to you
and listen to your peacemaking advice, you need to be prepared
to overcome their objections.
The TeaPartyCoaching
Program will equip you.
But you yourself may have to open your mind to ideas you've
been trained to despise.
As Americans -- as products of violent revolution, arms
exporting, and consumer selfishness -- we have been trained to
shut-off and turn-off ideas which conflict with national
ideology. Here are the three issues which you must wrestle
with in order to be a Peacemaker.
- Pacifism
vs. Revolution
- Anarchism
vs. "Representative" Regulation and
Redistribution
- Theocracy
vs. Rights
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Thing
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The Three Things You Need to Become
Extraordinary
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Content/Curriculum
- Read the Five Most Important Works in the History of
Western Civilization
- Apply them practically to your life, your home, your
neighborhood, your society
- Our
Daily Training Program
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Community
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Coaching
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Jethro -> Moses
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Paul -> Timothy
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The Importance of Ideas
- The human beings that settled the New World
- were the same species of humans that remained in Europe.
- But America became extraordinary,
while Europe
stagnated under monarchy and socialism.
- The difference was ideas.
- Ideas have consequences.
These same ideas can have consequences in your life.
The TeaPartyCoaching
Program
Here's a
description of our program, along with our continuing
attempt to persuade you to sign up.
TeaPartyCoaching
is a distance-learning program that helps you learn these
ideas and develop the skills to put them into effect and
promote them in our society.
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The TeaPartyCoaching
Program gives participants:
- a confident understanding of Biblical Christianity.
- conversational tools for engaging friends, co-workers,
and complete strangers about Christian Reconstruction in a
winsome and loving way.
- a community of like-minded believers for learning,
loving and living out faith together.
- a road map for living out an authentic faith in a
relativistic, postmodern world.
- opportunities to influence and transform the State, the
Church, communities, and culture.
The goal of our program is not to dump a bunch of
intellectual content into someones brain so they can then
spew it back out to others and sound really smart. Our aim is
to see people transformed from the inside out, to so inculcate
them in biblical truth, and in how and why those truths matter
in our personal lives and in our public institutions, that it
seeps into their mind, heart, and soul and transforms the way
they think, feel, and behave. This is the only foundation upon
which effective peacemaking can occur.
The program centers around the daily reading of the five
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- The Bible
- The Catechisms and Confession of the Westminster
Assembly (1644-48)
- Capitalism and the Wealth of
Nations
- The Myth of the Separation of
Church and State
- The Basis for Optimism
concerning the possibility of future progress and peace on
earth.
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- Our First Assigned Text:
The most
important work in the history of America and Western
Civilization, obviously, is the Bible.
- George Washington read the Bible an hour every morning.
- Then
another hour in the evening.
- America's Founding Fathers knew it well.
- It takes 11 minutes a day to read the Bible
from
cover to cover in one year.
- Maybe you've already read the Bible --
- but you read
it as a religious book.
- A "devotional" book.
- A book to "inspire" you.
- A book to help your "self-esteem."
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- We're going to read the Bible as
- marching
orders from General Headquarters.
- We're going to read the Bible as a
- textbook
in political science and economics.
- For example,
- We're going to pay close attention to
- what the Bible says about
- inflation
and fractional
reserve banking,
- which led the Framers of the Constitution to say
- "No state shall make anything but gold or silver a
tender in payment in of debts."
- Americans in 1776 knew what the Bible said about
economics, law, political science, and more.
- Americans today do not.
Christianity is not just religious devotionals.
Christianity is a worldview
that affects every area of life.
- At left you can see a list of contemporary issues which
the Bible addresses directly and clearly. During the next
365 days, you'll see these issues in the Bible like
America's Founding Fathers did, and like you've never seen
them before.
| In addition, you're going to see the story
of the Bible like you've never seen it before. Many
Christians today believe the story of the Bible goes
something like this: |
- God created planet earth;
- God put man on earth to be a good steward;
- Satan tempted man;
- Man rebelled against God, choosing to be his own
god instead,
- Satan now controls the world.
- Since Satan and man are not playing God's game
by God's rules, God is soon going to take his
cosmic football and go home.
In other words, Satan wins.
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Pretty dismal story, isn't it?
Sure, God sent His Son, who died on the cross, so that some
of the players can be forgiven for their rebellion and go home
with God, but God's original purposes for man and the creation
were thwarted by Satan, the ultimate victor.
The Bible doesn't teach this.
The Bible says our purpose as human beings is to turn a
fallen wilderness into a Garden-City. The New Jerusalem is the
"Vine & Fig Tree"
society.
Hundreds of years before Christ, the
prophet Daniel spoke of the first Christmas, the birth of
the Messiah in the days of the Roman Empire. That barbaric,
debauched empire was destroyed, and the Kingdom of Christ
began growing like a mustard tree, like leaven, like a field
(Matthew 13). The Emperor Justinian began Christianizing the
Eastern Roman Empire, and in the West kings like Alfred and
Ethelbert made the 10 Commandments the basis of new legal
systems. The "Common Law" began, with
a Christian foundation, and eventually found its way into
the Constitution of the United States, "a
Christian nation." Though there have been ups and
downs, the progress of Christianity has been undeniable -- at
least to those who have been taught the facts of history.
Most Americans in the 21st century have not.
If you enroll in the TeaPartyCoaching
Program, you will learn the story of the "Vine
& Fig Tree." You will learn that the
Bible says the purpose of the first Christmas was that
"the knowledge of the Lord should cover the earth as the
waters cover the sea." (Isaiah
11:9; Habakkuk
2:14). This has been going on for 2,000 years now. This is
a wonderful story that isn't being told.
Some people sincerely believe that the Bible says that
everything is going to get worse and worse until God finally
destroys everything and then starts over. (Why He would want
to go through failure again is not disclosed.)
You will read a different story in the Bible when you
enroll in the TeaPartyCoaching
Program, and have a coach pointing out things in the Bible
that you may have missed.
Perhaps you're reluctant to pay your tuition for a class
that teaches something very different from what you've always
heard. So we'll give you the entire year-long curriculum. We
want to make it clear that simply reading the class outline in
a week, or even a month, will not give you the same result as
you will have if you enroll in the TeaPartyCoaching
Program and study a little bit each day, think about it, study
more the next day, pray about it, and take an entire year to
complete your reading of the Vine
& Fig Tree story. It just won't be the
same.
But you wouldn't be a good shopper if you bought a product
without knowing what it delivered. So if you're doubtful about
our agenda, here are two ways to survey the story of the Bible
that you'll learn in the year-long TeaPartyCoaching
Program.
The first way is a 12-day study entitled "The 12 Days
of Liberty." It's modeled after the "12 Days of
Christmas, which take place from December 25 to January 6.
You've never heard the Christmas message like this:
This study is obviously not a review of the entire Bible,
though many other parts of the Bible are reviewed besides the
Christmas narratives in the Gospels.
Here, then, is a review of the entire Bible. Again, it is
no substitute for the Berean
model of searching the Scriptures daily.
And reading them all in an afternoon is not the same as
reading one a day and thinking about it prayerfully over a
period of time. But just so you can see an example of the
worldview of the TeaPartyCoaching
Program, here are 95 Bible Studies, patterned loosely after
Martin Luther's "95 Theses," somewhat-humorously
called The 95 Days of Christmas:
- Welcome to The 95 Days of
Christmas | View
- The Importance of Luther's 95 Theses | View
- The Origin of These 95 Theses | View
- Introduction: Taking the Bible Seriously | View
- Thesis 1: Christ the Word | View
- Thesis 2: Christ the Creator | View
- Thesis 3: Creation, not Evolution | View
- Thesis 4: Omniscience, Predestination, and Provide... | View
- Thesis 5: Self-Evident Truths | View
- A. Vine & Fig Tree
BEFORE THE FALL |
View
- Thesis 6: The Biological Basis of Patriarchy | View
- Thesis 7: The Dominion Mandate | View
- Thesis 8: Patriarchy and the Extended Family | View
- Thesis 9: Vine & Fig
Tree and the Sanctions of the Covenant |
View
- Thesis 10: The Priority of Agrarianism | View
- Thesis 11: Vine & Fig
Tree and the Mountain | View
- B. Vine & Fig Tree
BEFORE THE FLOOD | View
- Thesis 12: The Fall Of The Angels | View
- Thesis 13: The Fall of Man | View
- Thesis 14: The Purpose of Cains Suspended Sentence
| View
- Thesis 15: Cains City: The Autonomy of the State | View
- Thesis 16: The Demonic Roots of Violent Tyranny | View
- C. Vine & Fig Tree
BEFORE SINAI | View
- Thesis 17: The Post-Flood Absence of The Institutional
Church | View
- Thesis 18: The Patriarchal Power Of Capital
Punishment | View
- Thesis 19: Nimrod: The First Politician (Post-Flood) | View
- Thesis 20: Vine & Fig
Tree vs. Political Slavery | View
- Thesis 21: Demonic Activity At Babel | View
- Thesis 22: The Division of The Nations | View
- Thesis 23: Evangelism In The Old Covenant | View
- Thesis 24: Vine & Fig
Tree, National Defense, And
Military Socialism | View
- Thesis 25: Vine & Fig
Tree and Sacraments: Circumcision
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- Thesis 27: Vine & Fig
Tree, Precious Metals, and Money | View
- Thesis 26: The Myth of The Separation Of Church And
State | View
- Thesis 28: Salvation is Political | View
- D. Vine & Fig Tree
UNDER MOSES | View
- Thesis 29: Vine & Fig
Tree and Resistance to Tyranny in the
Early Days of the Old Testament | View
- Thesis 30: As With All Angelic Activity, No State Action
Is Coincidental or Random | View
- Thesis 31: Ceremony, Ritual, Liturgy, And The Pedagogical
Law | View
- Thesis 32: Vine & Fig
Tree and Sacraments: Passover | View
- Thesis 33: Patriarchs And Elders | View
- Thesis 34: The Need for a Pedagogical Legal Structure | View
- Thesis 35: Angels And The Pedagogical Legal Structure | View
- Thesis 36: The Promised Land | View
- Thesis 37: The Temporary Character of The First Church
Officers | View
- Thesis 38: Vine & Fig
Tree and the Temple |
View
- Thesis 39: Patriarchy and Education | View
- Thesis 40: Vine & Fig
Tree and Oaths | View
- E. Vine & Fig Tree
AND THE RISE OF THE
STATE | View
- Thesis 41: The Character of gods | View
- Thesis 42: National Security Without a State | View
- Thesis 43: The Prohibition of Monarchism | View
- Thesis 44: The State as the Answer to the Prayers of
Rebels | View
- Thesis 45: The Inferiority of Old Covenant Typological
Mediators | View
- F. Vine & Fig Tree
AND PROVIDENCE :
THE STATE | View
- Thesis 46: Romans 8:28 and The State | View
- Thesis 47: Gods Sovereign Ordering of Every State | View
- Thesis 48: The State Serves God by Sinning | View
- Thesis 49: The State As Sanctified Servant/Deacon/Minister
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- Thesis 50: The State Does Not Serve God Self-Consciously
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- Thesis 51: Only One King Self-Consciously Serves God | View
- Thesis 52: Judgment of the State in Heaven and Earth | View
- Thesis 53: Moloch-Worship and the Nature of Idols | View
- Thesis 54: War, Capital Punishment, and The Sword
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- Thesis 55: The Throne of David | View
- G. Vine & Fig Tree
AND THE MESSIAH
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- Thesis 56: Statism At The Time Of Christ | View
- Thesis 57: Kingship, Citizenship, and The Gospel | View
- Thesis 58: The Civil Authority of The Pastor: Christ The
Shepherd | View
- Thesis 59: Jewish Opposition To The Kingdom | View
- Thesis 60: Christs Binding of Satan | View
- Thesis 61: True Power vs. Political Power | View
- Thesis 62: Agrarianism As Environmentalism | View
- Thesis 63: Christs Ascension to the Throne of David |
View
- Thesis 64: The Camaraderie of Church And State | View
- Thesis 65: Fox News and the Coming of the Kingdom | View
- Thesis 66: The Anointed King vs. Political Kings | View
- Thesis 67: Jesus The Nazarene | View
- H. Vine & Fig Tree
AND THE EARLY HOME-CHURCHES
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- Thesis 68: Extremism Vs. Neutrality | View
- Thesis 69: Sons of God and Pedagogues | View
- Thesis 70: Judgment and the Church-Courts of Christ | View
- Thesis 71: The Apostolic Church and the Spread of Power
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- Thesis 72: Vine & Fig
Tree and the House-Church | View
- Thesis 73: Vine & Fig
Tree and the Sacraments: Baptism |
View
- Thesis 74: Vine & Fig
Tree and the Sacraments: The
Lords Supper | View
- Thesis 75: Self-Ordination | View
- Thesis 76: Salt and Statism | View
- Thesis 77: Political Authority and Kingdom Citizenship |
View
- Thesis 78: Vine & Fig
Tree and Resistance to Tyranny in the
Last Days of the Old Covenant | View
- Thesis 79: Taxation, Kingdom Citizenship, and Overcoming
Through Suffering | View
- Thesis 80: Violence | View
- Thesis 81: Vengeance | View
- Thesis 82: Creationist Anarcho-Socialism and Darwinian
Archo-Socialism | View
- Thesis 83: Pedagogy and The Powers | View
- Thesis 84: The End of Archists: The Pedagogues Judged by
the Church | View
- Thesis 85: The Last Days of the Old Covenant | View
- I. Vine & Fig Tree
IN THE MILLENNIUM
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- Thesis 86: The Millennium | View
- Thesis 87: Ruling with Christ | View
- Thesis 88: Salvation as Light and Social Healing | View
- Thesis 89: Edenic Restoration | View
- Thesis 90: The New Heavens and New Earth | View
- Thesis 91: The Unconverted In the Millennium | View
- Thesis 92: The Last Acts of Earthly Archists | View
- Thesis 93: The City of God | View
You need to go through the entire year-long program to
appreciate these studies. You do yourself a disservice if you
try to judge any one of the studies without studying the
entire series. Real change will take place when you work
through the entire Bible systematically, daily,
prayerfully, thoughtfully, over the course of a year. The
change in your thinking -- the change in your worldview --
will not come about because we forced you or tricked you. You
will experience those "Aha!' moments when the lightbulb
goes on and you're never able to look at the Bible the same
way again.
The significance of most of these studies will become
clearer after you become acquainted with the four other works
that we'll be covering in the TeaPartyCoaching
Program.
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Read
through the Bible in one year
with a mentor who can help you see
that
Peace is Possible
Why Read the Bible?
Myth:
The
Old Testament
advocates war, slavery, genocide, and
vengeful retaliation. |
Myth:
The
Teachings of Jesus
are impractical, utopian,
unrealistic, and should be relegated to the inner religious
meditations of a Mother Theresa, but should be kept away from
public policy, especially foreign affairs and military
strategy. |
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Both sides of this
coin are wrong.
We need to examine these myths. |
| Jesus quoted the
Old Testament. The prophets spoke of a day when we would beat
our swords into
plowshares and everyone would dwell securely under his own
Vine & Fig Tree -- not because his property was being
taken from him to fund the "military-industrial
complex," which "keeps us all safe," but
because nobody was training for war any more. |
If we were to
follow the teachings of Jesus in Washington D.C., we would
experience security, peace, and economic prosperity. No war
that the U.S. federal government has waged has ever made
things better than they would have been without military
intervention. |
- How did the
Civil War make things better? It gave us
complete domination by the federal
government.
- What future was improved for Poland and
Czechoslovakia by World War II? They were
rescued from Hitler and turned over to Stalin.
- How did U.S. war help the people of Iraq? A
westernized, secular nation was converted into
an Islamic Theocracy that leans toward Iran.
Hundreds of thousands of Christians were
killed or made homeless. Infrastructure was
destroyed.
- Which improvements in the human condition
were won by war?
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Conclusion:
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We should take
both the Old Testament and the New Testament seriously. |
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- Each day as we read the Bible
we're going to focus on things that George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, and Samuel Adams focused on in their
studies: virtue, morality and character.
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- Not the kind of character that makes a person a prissy
priest or clergyman.
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- But the kind of character than can create entrepreneurs,
CEOs, and heroes; build businesses and hospitals.
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- We'll study the character traits you see at left, and we
will begin developing them into habits in our own lives.
- We'll discover a program to develop extraordinary habits
in the next great work we're
going to read.
Thomas Jefferson, despite his criticisms of clergy and
ecclesiastical corruption, would want to be remembered as one
who lived and encouraged a life of virtue and morality. He
would not take credit for the army of people who champion
"separation of church and state" as a cloak for
selfish immorality and a lack of virtue.
The practice of morality being necessary for the
well-being of society, He has taken care to impress its
precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be
effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the
obligation of the moral precepts of Jesus, and nowhere will
they be found delivered in greater purity than in his
discourses. TJ to James Fishback, Sept 27, 1809, Bergh
12:315. (1809.)
Jefferson had written in 1819, "I never go to bed
without an hour or half an hour's reading of something
moral, whereon to ruminate in the intervals of sleep"
-- to which Randall adds, "The book oftenest chosen . .
. was a collection of extracts from the Bible." Henry
Wilder Foote, "Introduction," The Jefferson
Bible, 23
He was passionately devoted to the gospel of Jesus, which
stirred him to the depths of his being and was the most
powerful motive force in his life. Donald S. Harrington,
"Foreword," The Jefferson Bible, 11
Speaking of "the widespread denunciation of him by his
political opponents as an anti-Christian infidel or
atheist," Foote observes,
[I]t is one of the minor ironies of history that such
slanders should have been so generally and so long believed
about the man whose knowledge of and admiration for the
teachings of Jesus have never been equaled by any other
President. Henry Wilder Foote, "Introduction," The
Jefferson Bible, 18
It was not, however, to be understood that instruction in
religious opinion and duties was meant to be precluded by
the public authorities as indifferent to the interests of
society. On the contrary, the relations which exist between
man and his Maker and the duties resulting from those
relations are the most interesting and important to every
human being and the most incumbent on his study and
investigation. -- TJ, Report to the Visitors [school boards]
Oct 7, 1822
America's Founders were agreed that religion and morality
were an essential part of a public school education.
This is because good character, which is the embodiment of
religion and morality, was essential to liberty and a free
Republic. If everyone thinks he is his own god, and can steal,
enslave, or kill anyone who stands in his way, you cannot have
ordered liberty. People of bad character will clamor for a
strong government to take vengeance against other people of
bad character. Soon you have totalitarianism and lawlessness.
Read the Founders on the connection between morality and
liberty here.
Continue to Westminster
Standards
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Introduction
- Welcome
to the Westminster Standards
- The
Hard Sell
Day
1: Reformation Day and The Chief End of Man
Day
2: The Holy Scripture, part 1
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3: The Holy Scripture, part 2
Day
4: The Holy Scripture, part 3
Day
5: What is God? part 1
Day
6: What is God? part 2
Day
7: What is God? part 3
Day
8: What is God? part 4 - The Trinity
Day
9: Of God's Eternal Decree, part 1
Day
10: Of God's Eternal Decree, part 2
Day
11: Of God's Eternal Decree, part 3
Day
12: Of Creation
Day
13: Of Providence, part 1
Day
14: Of Providence, part 2
Day
15: Of Providence, part 3
Day
16: Of Providence, part 4
Day
17: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the
Punishment thereof, part 1
Day
18: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the
Punishment thereof, part 2
Day
19: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the
Punishment thereof, part 3
Day
20: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the
Punishment thereof, part 4
Day
21: Of God's Covenant with Man, part 1
Day
22: Of God's Covenant with Man, part 2
Day
23: Of God's Covenant with Man, part 3
Day
24: Of God's Covenant with Man, part 4
Day
25: Of Christ the Mediator, part 1
Day
26: Of Christ the Mediator, part 2
Day
27: Of Christ the Mediator, part 3
Day
28: Of Christ the Mediator, part 4
Day
29: Of Christ the Mediator, part 5
Day
30: Of Christ the Mediator, part 6
Day
31: Of Christ the Mediator, part 7
Day
32: Of Christ the Mediator, part 8
Day
33: Of Christ the Mediator, part 9
Day
34: Of Christ the Mediator, part 10
Day
35: Of Christ the Mediator, part 11
Day
36: Of Free Will, part 1
Day
37: Of Free Will, part 2
Day
38: Of Effectual Calling, part 1
Day
39: Of Effectual Calling, part 2
Day
40: Of Effectual Calling, part 3
Day
41: Of Effectual Calling, part 4
Day
42: Of Effectual Calling, part 5
Day
43: Of Justification, part 1
Day
44: Of Justification, part 2
Day
45: Of Justification, part 3
Day
46: Of Justification, part 4
Day
47: Of Justification, part 5
Day
48: Of Adoption
Day
49: Of Sanctification, part 1
Day
50: Of Sanctification, part 2
Day
51: Of Sanctification, part 3
Day
52: Of Saving Faith
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53: Of Repentance unto Life, part 1
Day
54: Of Repentance unto Life, part 2
Day
55: Of Good Works, part 1
Day
56: Of Good Works, part 2
Day
57: Of the Perseverance of the Saints
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58: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation,
part 1
Day
59: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation,
part 2
Day
60: Of the Law of God, part 1
Day
61: Of the Law of God, part 2
Day
62: Of the Law of God, part 3
Day
63: Of the Law of God, part 4
Day
64: Rules for Interpreting God's
Commandments, part 1
Day
65: Rules for Interpreting God's
Commandments, part 2
Day
66: The Preface to the Ten Commandments
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67: Duties Required in the First
Commandment, part 1
Day
68: Duties Required in the First
Commandment, part 2
Day
69: Sins Forbidden in the First Commandment,
part 1
Day
70: Sins Forbidden in the First Commandment,
part 2
Day
71: Duties Required in the Second
Commandment
Day
72: Sins Forbidden in the Second
Commandment, part 1
Day
73: Sins Forbidden in the Second
Commandment, part 2
Day
74: Reasons Annexed to the Second
Commandment
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75: Duties Required in the Third Commandment
Day
76: Sins Forbidden in the Third Commandment,
part 1
Day
77: Sins Forbidden in the Third Commandment,
part 2
Day
78: Reasons Annexed to the Third Commandment
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79: Of Lawful Oaths and Vows, part 1
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80: Of Lawful Oaths and Vows, part 2
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- The second
most
popular work in colonial America
(after the
Bible)
- was the
Westminster Standards.
This comprised a Confession of Faith, a Larger
Catechism and a Smaller Catechism.
The Smaller Catechism was for children. The
Larger Catechism for teens. Both exceed the depth of most
seminary graduates in the 21st century.
At a time when the total population of America
was only four million people, it is estimated that some five
million copies of the "Westminster Shorter
Catechism" were available in the colonies. Historian
Richard Gardiner writes:
The
Westminster Catechism was not only a central part of the
colonial educational curriculum, learning it was required
by law. Each town employed an officer whose duty was to
visit homes to hear the children recite the Catechism. The
primary schoolbook for children, the New England Primer,
included the Catechism. Daily recitations of it were
required at these schools. Their curriculum included
memorization of the Westminster Confession and the
Westminster Larger Catechism. There was not a person at
Independence Hall in 1776 who had not been exposed to it,
and most of them had it spoon fed to them before they
could walk.
It takes approximately 11 minutes per day to
read through the Bible from cover to cover. It only takes a
couple of minutes a day to read through the Westminster
Catechisms and Confession in a year. They were written around
1645 and the drafters unequivocally opposed our brand of
political libertarianism. But they believed that God is God,
and denied that the State is God, a necessary first step on
your road to becoming an extraordinary American, an
extraordinary Christian, and an extraordinary human being..
- And from the Westminster Standards we're going to
discover a program that will rapidly and profoundly
change our personal character and habits.
Over the course of 365 days,
you'll begin internalizing Christianity as a worldview.
You will begin applying
Christian principles to every area of your life. Christianity
will no longer be a private belief for you, but a public
matter. You will become your own "City
upon a Hill."
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920), the Prime Minister of the
Netherlands, delivered a series of lectures at the Princeton
Theological Seminary in 1898 under the auspices of the L. P.
Stone Foundation. Kuyper explained how the Christian faith as
set forth in the Westminster Standards related to Religion, Politics,
Science, and the Arts. Kuyper said,
"In the total expanse of human
life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ,
who alone is sovereign, does not declare, that is Mine!"
If Christianity is relegated to Sunday school, then Monday
through Friday we can deny justice, infringe on liberty, and
destroy the life, liberty and property of others. It is
because the Westminster Standard viewed life as a whole, all
of it under the jurisdiction of God and His Laws and morality,
that America became prosperous and admired. Americans
Christianized business, science, the arts, and every area of
life. This made America a great place to live.
- Consider your alternatives:
- An atheistic Soviet Union
- Buddhist Sri Lanka
- Most people would rather live in America, a Christian
nation.
It was Calvinism
that shaped America.
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- Day
81: Religious Worship, part 1
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82: Religious Worship, part 2
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83: Christian Liberty and Liberty of
Conscience, part 1
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84: Christian Liberty and Liberty of
Conscience, part 2
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85: The Word of God in Worship, part 1
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86: The Word of God in Worship, part 2
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87: The Word of God in Worship, part 3
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88: The Word of God in Worship, part 4
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89: Of the Sacraments, part 1
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90: Of the Sacraments, part 2
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91: Of Baptism, part 1
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92: Of Baptism, part 2
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93: Of Baptism, part 3
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94: Of The Lord's Supper, part 1
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95: Of The Lord's Supper, part 2
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96: Of The Lord's Supper, part 3
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97: Of The Lord's Supper, part 4
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98: Of The Lord's Supper, part 5
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99: Of The Lord's Supper, part 6
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100: Of Communion of Saints, part 1
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101: Of Communion of Saints, part 2
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102: The Fourth Commandment, part 1
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103: The Fourth Commandment, part 2
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104: The Fourth Commandment, part 3
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105: The Fourth Commandment, part 4
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106: The Fifth Commandment, part 1
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107: The Fifth Commandment, part 2
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108: The Fifth Commandment, part 3
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109: The Fifth Commandment, part 4
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110: The Fifth Commandment, part 5
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111: The Fifth Commandment, part 6
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112: The Civil Magistrate, part 1
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113: The Civil Magistrate, part 2
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114: The Civil Magistrate, part 3
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115: Of The Church, part 1
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116: Of The Church, part 2
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117: Of Church Censures, part 1
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118: Of Church Censures, part 2
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119: Of Synods and Councils
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120: The Sixth Commandment, part 1
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121: The Sixth Commandment, part 2
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122: The Sixth Commandment, part 3 -
"Capital Punishment"
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123: The Sixth Commandment, part 4 -
"Lawful War" I
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124: The Sixth Commandment, part 5 -
"Lawful War" II
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125: The Sixth Commandment, part 6 -
"Necessary Defense"
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126: The Sixth Commandment, part 7 -
conclusion
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127: The Seventh Commandment, part 1
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128: The Seventh Commandment, part 2
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129: The Seventh Commandment, part 3
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130: The Seventh Commandment, part 4
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131: The Eighth Commandment, part 1
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132: The Eighth Commandment, part 2
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133: The Eighth Commandment, part 3
- Day
134: The Eighth Commandment, part 4
- Day
135: The Ninth Commandment, part 1
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136: The Ninth Commandment, part 2
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137: The Ninth Commandment, part 3
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138: The Ninth Commandment, part 4
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139: The Tenth Commandment
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140: Of Communion of Saints, part 3
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141: Of the State Of Men after Death
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142: The Resurrection of the Dead
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143: Of the Last Judgment, part 1
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144: Of the Last Judgment, part 2
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145: How to Pray, part 1
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146: How to Pray, part 2
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147: How to Pray, part 3
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148: The Lord's Prayer, part 1
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149: The Lord's Prayer, part 2
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150: The Lord's Prayer, part 3 -
"Thy Kingdom Come"
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151: The Lord's Prayer, part 4 -
"Thy Will Be Done"
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152: The Lord's Prayer, part 5 -
"Give Us This Day Our Daily
Bread"
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153: The Lord's Prayer, part 6 -
"Forgive Us Our Debts"
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154: The Lord's Prayer, part 7 -
"Lead us Not into Temptation"
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155: The Lord's Prayer, part 8 -
"For Thine is the Kingdom"
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156: Aggravated Sins, part 1
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157: Aggravated Sins, part 2
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158: Aggravated Sins, part 3
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159: Aggravated Sins, part 4
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160: Aggravated Sins, part 5
Special
Supplements
- "End,"
"Nature," and "Works"
- The
Depravity of Man
- "Without
Passions"
- Does
God "Repent?"
- Emotions
and God's Law
- The
Enthronement of Christ
- Christ's
Coming to Judge the World
- Westminster
and Marilynne Robinson
- The
Politics of Star-Worship
- What
is "Worship?"
- "The
Day of The Lord"
- The
Fourth Commandment in American History
- The
Five Stages of Deuteronomy 8
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- The third most
important work in the
- history of America and Western
Civilization
- It is not a single book, but a concept.
- Its a concept that transformed barbaric pagan
- Empires into limited governments and a
- Land of liberty:
That word is
Theocracy
That's right. Theocracy. This is
- And yet for all the good it has done the world, the word
is hated even by many Christians.
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In the 18th century,
America's Founders gave us what they called "an
Experiment in Liberty," and in the 19th century
America became the most prosperous and admired nation in
history. Washington
D.C. abandoned that experiment in the 20th century,
embarking on an
experiment in government central planning.
Everywhere this experiment was tried -- German, Italy, the
Soviet Union -- it left poverty and mass death.
George Washington would see that we need to abolish the
current tyranny, and replace it with nothing but "the
Invisible Hand" of 100% unregulated, Laissez-faire
capitalism.
You're thinking: "Those greedy
capitalists will exploit the poor!"
As if greedy politicians don't.
But your moral
concerns are valid.
That's why George Washington
and America's Founding Fathers believed America had to be a
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Americans have been trained to react in horror
to the word "Theocracy." This is an especially
devious trick by atheists. A nation "under
God" is a Theocracy, because a nation "under
God" is a nation that acknowledges that God rules,
and "God Rules" is the literal meaning of
"Theocracy." Since we've all been brainwashed to
repel any move toward "Theocracy," we say nothing
when public schools cannot teach children that we are a nation
"under God." That might constitute "imposing a
Theocracy." Can't have that!
America became the most prosperous and admired nation in
history because it was a nation "under
God." In short, America was a Christian Theocracy.
Today the word "theocracy" conjures up images of
Islamic terrorists and mullahs. People think of
"theocracy" as a police state governed by
priests. This is inaccurate. The word
"theocracy" comes from two Greek words, theos,
meaning "God," and a Greek word meaning
"rule." A theocracy where God rules is
a nation "under
God." America has always
been known as "one nation under
God," and therefore America has always been a
Christian Theocracy.
But there are good theocracies and there are bad ones. A
nation can be attempting to be a Christian Theocracy and do a
very poor job of it. We do not believe that a good Christian
Theocracy is a police state. We believe a good Christian
Theocracy is one where all the priests and princes have
resigned and gotten real jobs where they serve
others.
Everything that the ACLU opposes when it speaks of
"imposing a theocracy" was done by Washington and
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[27]
4 Washington
Irving, Life
of George Washington 475
(New York: G. P. Putnam & Co.,
1857); Mrs.
C. M Kirkland, Memoirs
of Washington 438 (New
York: D. Appleton & Company,
1870); Charles
Carleton Coffin, Building
the Nation 26 (New York:
Harper & Brothers Publishers,
1882); etc.
[28]
1 Richardson,
Messages
and Papers 51-54 (April 30,
1789).
[29]
1 Annals
of Congress
29 (April 30, 1789).
[30]
Acts
Passed at a Congress of the United
States of America Begun and Held
at the City of New-York, on
Wednesday the Fourth of March, in
the Year 1789, 104
(Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin,
1791) (August 7, 1789).
[31]
1 Debates
and Proceedings 685 (1st
Cong., 1st Sess.)
(July 21, 1789, passage by the
House), and 1 Debates
and Proceedings 57 (August
4, 1789, passage by the Senate).
[32]
Constitutions
(1813) 364 ("An Ordinance of
the Territory of the United States
Northwest of the River Ohio,"
Article III).
[33]
For example, State constitutions
across the decades reflecting this
requirement include the 1803 Ohio
Constitution (Constitutions
(1813), 334, Ohio, 1802, Article
8, Section 3); the 1817
Mississippi Constitution (The
Constitutions of All the United
States According to the Latest
Amendments (Lexington, KY:
Thomas T. Skillman, 1817), 389,
Mississippi, 1817, Article 9,
Section 16); the 1858 Kansas
Constitution (House of
Representatives, Mis. Doc. No. 44,
35th Cong., 2nd Sess., February 2,
1859, 3-4, Article 1, Section 7,
of the Kansas Constitution); the
1875 Nebraska Constitution (M. B.
C. True, A
Manual of the History and Civil
Government of the State of
Nebraska (Omaha: Gibson,
Miller, & Richardson, 1885),
34, Nebraska, 1875, Article 1,
Section 4); etc.
[34]
See The
Constitution of North Carolina 42
(Raleigh: Rufus L. Edmisten,
Secretary of State, 1989) (Article
9, Section 1); Constitution
of the State of Nebraska 1-2
(Lincoln: Allen J. Beermann,
Secretary of State, 1992) (Article
1, Section 4); Page's
Ohio Revised Code Annotated 24
(Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing
Co., 1994) (Article 1, Section 7).
[35]
United
States Code Annotated 1
(St. Paul: West Publishing Co.,
1987) ("The Organic Laws of
the United States of
America").
Religion
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Congress was
sitting in New York on April 30, 1789, when Washington took
the oath of office as Chief Executive. During
his inauguration, Washington took the oath as prescribed by
the Constitution but added several religious components to
that official ceremony. Before taking his oath of office, he
summoned a Bible on which to take the oath, added the words
"So help me God!" to the end of the oath, then
leaned over and kissed the Bible. [27]
His "Inaugural Address" was filled with numerous
religious references, [28]
and following that address, he and the Congress
"proceeded to St. Paul's Chapel, where Divine service was
performed." [29]
Only weeks
later, Washington signed his first major federal bill [30]
- the Northwest Ordinance, drafted concurrently with the
creation of the First Amendment. [31]
That act stipulated that for a territory to become a State,
the "schools and the means of education" in that
territory must encourage the "religion, morality, and
knowledge" that was "necessary
to good government and the happiness of mankind."
[32]
Conforming to this requirement, numerous subsequent State
constitutions included that clause, [33]
and it still appears in State constitutions today. [34]
Furthermore, that law is listed in the current federal code,
along with the Constitution, the Declaration, and the Articles
of Confederation, as one of America's four "organic"
or foundational laws. [35]
Washington would be appalled that today's Supreme Court
says it is "unconstitutional" for children in public
schools to be taught that Christianity is "necessary
to good government and the happiness of mankind."
Every single person who signed the Constitution believed that
it was, and intended for government to endorse
that idea.
In his Inaugural Address, Washington, speaking publicly and
officially as the new President of the United States, said:
Such being the impressions under which I have, in
obedience to the public summons, repaired to the
present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit,
in this first official
act, my fervent supplications to the Almighty Being, who
rules over the universe,
who presides in the councils of
nations, and whose providential
aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction
may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people
of the United States a government instituted
by themselves for these essential purposes, and may
enable every instrument employed in its administration to
execute with success the functions allotted to his charge.
In tendering this homage to the great Author of every public
and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your
sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my
fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No people can be
bound to acknowledge and adore the
invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more
than the people of the United States. Every step, by which
they have advanced to the character of an independent
nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential
agency. And, in the revolution just accomplished in the
system of their united government, the tranquil
deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct
communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be
compared with the means by which most governments have been
established, without some return of pious gratitude along
with a humble anticipation of the future blessings
which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising
out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too
strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me,
I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence
of which the proceedings of a new and free government can
more auspiciously commence.
President Washington could not have said these things to
children in a public school classroom in 2012. (And not just
because American public school students are generally illiterate
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On the day after the Constitution
went into effect in March of 1789, America as a whole and each
one of the 13 united States was a
Christian Theocracy.
A Christian Theocracy seeks to give God all the glory. It's
hard to see that God rules today when the
State claims to be the Messiah.
Americans today have been misled by the myth of "the
Separation of Church and State." This mythical idea --
not found anywhere in the Constitution -- has come to mean the
separation of God
and State, with God being separated into the private
world of fantasy and imagination, and the State having omnipotent
power in "the real world."
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1892 the United States Supreme
Court unanimously declared that
America was "a
Christian nation." The
Court went back to the discovery
of North America by Columbus, and
summarized all the official legal
charters and documents that
acknowledged our duty to God and
created the American Theocracy,
the most prosperous
and admired nation
in history. |
In
1989 the Court said, "This
Court squarely has rejected
the proposition that the First
Amendment is to be interpreted
in light of any favoritism for
Christianity that may have existed
among the Founders of the Republic.
"May have?"
America is no longer a nation
under God. As a result, America --
once prosperous and admired
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The great conflict in Western Civilization
today is whether our world will become
The third reading assignment will be the
history of Christian Theocracy and "Western
Civilization."
Hundreds of years before
Christ, the
prophet Daniel spoke of the first Christmas, the birth
of the Messiah in the days of the Roman Empire. That empire
was destroyed, and Christian Theocracy began growing. The
Emperor Justinian began Christianizing the Eastern Roman
Empire, and in the West kings like Alfred and Ethelbert made
the 10 Commandments the basis of new legal systems. The
"Common Law" began, with
a Christian foundation, and eventually found its way
into the Constitution of the United States, "a
Christian nation." No one book adequately chronicles
this history, so we will read from a number of books that
try:
 
 
Excerpts from these books are freely available
on the Internet. Only one of the authors agrees with our
radical conclusions (described below), but their arguments
lead to our conclusions if consistently held.
There are
two stories that need to be told:
The first is how Christianity
destroyed the slavery and paganism of the
Roman Empire and inaugurated "Liberty Under
God," the foundation of "Western
Civilization" (476 A.D.- 1517 A.D.).
- The second story is the
story of America, and how
-
Calvinism
created America
(1517-1787)
America apostatized into an atheistic
empire (1787-2012)
and -- hopefully -- how
America repented and became an anarchist-theocracy
(2012 - ????).
To begin this second story, George Washington
would assign the reading of the Supreme Court's opinion in the
1892 Decision Holy
Trinity Church vs. The United States and all the historic
legal documents cited by the Court.
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The fourth book
of
the five most important books in the history of America and
Western Civilization is about
Capitalism
Capitalism or socialism?
This
is the second great question of our age. It is a derivative of
the first great question, Theonomy
or Automony?
It's all about violence.
If you want to help the poor, can you justify
the use of government violence, or must you rely on acts that
come from the heart, voluntarily, spontaneously, or as a
result of persuasion, education, enlightenment, and faith?
The Wealth of Nations
Many Americans today believe that the
government produces wealth. Others want the government to
redistribute wealth ("spread the wealth") to special
interests -- the most special of all interests, of course,
being "ME!" Such people wouldn't even entertain
the idea of abolishing the current tyranny, much less
actively work toward that goal, because that which America's
Founders described as "tyranny" many in our day
would praise as a big benevolent brother. "The government
can give us whatever we want if we just vote the most generous
and compassionate politicians into office," they believe.
Those who disagree or resist will be
wiretapped, arrested, fined, imprisoned, or executed.
Adam Smith would be appalled at such ignorance
and immorality. Smith taught ethics at the University of
Glasgow and wrote a Theory
of Moral Sentiments .
In the same year as the Declaration of Independence was
written (1776), Adam Smith wrote a book entitled An
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations,
widely regarded as the first treatise on capitalism.
Capitalism is unquestionably one of the most
important features of Western Civilization. Capitalist nations
enjoy health and prosperity. Socialist nations enjoy sickness
and poverty, to the extent they do not receive foreign aid or
the fruits of capitalist nations.
"Capitalism" is the opposite of
"socialism."
Socialist nations can't spread the wealth,
they can only spread the poverty by compulsion and threats of
violence. Socialism -- government intervention
in the economy -- is not just inefficient and
wasteful, it is immoral.
Smith's Wealth of Nations is not
easy reading, but Samuel Adams and George Washington would
insist that no true American can be without a basic
understanding of capitalism and the laws of a free economy.
Fortunately, in our day a more recent treatise on capitalism
as been written which is wonderfully illuminating and
readable: Capitalism
by Prof. George Reisman.
 
 
George Washington would assign Reisman's text
to any American who wanted to become an extraordinary
American. Consistent socialism is maximum
government. We believe consistent capitalism is
the exact opposite.
If you thought "Theocracy" was
controversial, please have a seat. The odds are good that you
are a victim of
The
Biggest Government Lie in all of Human History.
George Washington was the father of a nation
"under God" -- a Christian Theocracy. He was also
the father of nation of "LIBERTY
UNDER GOD." And if he could see the progress (and
regress) of the last 200 years, he would advocate
100% pure laissez-faire capitalism
You might not be offended at that idea. Yet.
It means the absence of all
socialism. Every trace.
If you think about that for a minute or two,
you'll realize that another word for the complete absence of
socialism is "anarchism."
That word is explosive. That's because you've
been brainwashed. That's because you are a victim of
The
Biggest Government Lie in all of Human History.
Pure capitalism is anarcho-capitalism,
the absence of government force. Prof. Reisman disagrees
with us, but his book will help us prove our point with
credibility and impeccable logic.
Are you a socialist or a capitalist?
You probably haven't even begun to answer
this question.
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Everybody talks about "smaller
government." Everybody agrees that some government needs
to be cut. How much? When and where do we stop cutting?
In 1776, America's Founding Fathers proposed a form of
government which scandalized many. A government with NO
KING.
It was unprecedented.
How can a nation preserve social order -- how can a
government govern -- with no king? It would be like a headless
horseman!
It got worse. America's government would be a government
characterized by "the
Consent of the Governed."
This turned the entire concept of "government" on
its head. When the king has a "divine right" to
govern his subjects, the subjects have no right to disagree
with the king. Every decree of the king is assumed to be
valid, even if the subjects don't like it. But in America,
every action of the government would be presumed to be INVALID
unless the governed consented to the
government's act.
We The People would govern ourselves.
And -- We the People would govern the government.
We the People
would tell the government how to govern!
Breathtaking.
It rocked the world.
Only a Theocracy -- a people "under God" -- can
be trusted with self-government -- capitalism and a Free
Market. And if religion and morality hold sway in a nation,
then we can safely criticize America's Founding Fathers for
replacing one government with another. They themselves taught
us not to trust civil governments for social order, but to
trust in religion
and morality. If you're having second thoughts about
enrolling in TeaPartyCoaching,
read the quotes on that
page. Take a glance at the linked pages on that
page. After reading the Bible, the Westminster Standards,
the history of Theocracy and Western Civilization, and
Reisman's treatise on Capitalism, you will be ready for the
next paradigm.
It will be bigger than "consent of the governed."
If you and I don't follow the lead of George Washington,
the next generation will be engulfed in socialism and
the darkness of "false
religions" (to use the words of James Madison, the
"Father of the Constitution").
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 The
message
of the angels to the shepherds on the first Christmas:
And this is the
sign unto you: Ye shall find a Babe wrapped in swaddling
clothes, and lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was
with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising
God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest,
And peace
on earth
among men in whom He is
well pleased.
Is Peace on Earth possible? If you think so, many people will
call you an "unrealistic" "utopian."
They will say you're just not taking into consideration
"the depravity
of man."
For many people, "realism" = pessimism.
And for 100 million evangelical Americans, God has
predestined life to get worse and worse. Wars will inevitably
increase. Totalitarian military dictatorship and tribulation
are inevitable. God's experiment of putting human beings on
earth to cultivate the Garden and build a New Jerusalem will
be complete failure. Jesus will end it all by coming again, in
the cosmic equivalent of "If it's your football and
you're losing the game, just take your football and go
home."
One of the most popular objections to undertaking the task
of abolishing an atheistic
dictatorship by working to persuade archists
to repent (resign) is the belief that Christ is going to
return "any day now," and "you
don't polish brass on a sinking ship." Christians are
soon going to be "raptured," many believe, so why
work against the tyranny of "The New World Order" or
invest energy in a defense of "Liberty Under God?"
This entire theological edifice, and the millions of people
believing it, did not exist in 1776. No theologian
was preaching "the
Rapture" in 1776. America's Founders felt comfortable
proclaiming their creation of a "Novus Ordo Seclorum,"
a New Order to last for Ages. According to the U.S. Dept. of
Treasury, the motto on the Great Seal "signifies a new
American era" that "will always grow, improve and
build."
This optimism has virtually disappeared in the 21st
century.
The final book assigned for reading in our TeaPartyCoaching
Program will be a book that refutes modern
"pessimillennialism" and restores optimism and
confidence in God's ability to achieve His goals. This book
will give us courage to be Peacemakers. This book will become
one of the most important books in Western Civilization
because it will prevent the plunge into pessimism and nihilism
that threatens to bring down Western Civilization itself.
We are searching diligently for this book.
In the meantime, We are going to assign the reading of an
1876 book entitled The Parousia:
 
"Parousia" is the Greek word used for
"second coming." This book is simply a catalog of
all New Testament prophecies concerning "the second
coming." The result of looking at all the evidence will
be a "paradigm shift."
We admit that this book is not yet one of the most
important books in American history or the history of Western
Civilization. What we believe is that the idea that Christians
should not be a "city upon a hill," a "light
unto the world," or "the salt of the earth,"
and should allow Satan to rule or destroy the world, is an
idea that has already done much to undo everything George
Washington and the Founding Fathers worked for, as well as all
that Calvin and Augustine worked for. It is, in fact, turning
over the City of God and the Kingdom of Christ to the city of
man and the kingdom of Satan.
In other words, one of the most important ideas in the
history of Western Civilization is the refutation of the idea
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