Someone posted a picture on Facebook of how KKK was scratched into the bathroom wall at a gas station.
Joel McDurmon said, “Bad sign they’re still around. Good sign they’re reduced to using the bathroom stalls like the sodomites.”
Category Archives: Christianity
A Good Point
Here’s a cool t-shirt, and a good comment about it.
Not only do I agree, but I believe it is the only way to defeat the wickedness of our culture like abortion, police, corruption, etc. People can go protest and write legislation all they want, but if 90% of “christian” children are being discipled by government agents, or agents of a bureaucratic denomination, every single one of those gains is going to be crushed a few short years later by the spawn of the beast…that includes votes cast against YOU by the offspring of the local hipster church pastor who he has willingly sent off to public school to be trained in a worldview opposed to yours.
Conservatives and Christians are the Problem
Liberal states defy the federal government all the time. There are sanctuary cities and states for illegal immigration and there are several states where marijuana is legal in spite of the federal government.
Conservative states could easily and righteously defy Roe vs. Wade and ban abortion in their states, but they’re too sissy. Christians could call on their states and locality to defy tyranny, but have warped the teaching on Romans 13 so badly, that they think it would be a sin to defy the federal government.
It’s time to grow up and start acting as though we actually do believe that babies are being murdered among us. Our government doesn’t bear any resemblance to the government described in Romans 13. The government isn’t doing its job to protect babies from murder.
Thou Shalt Not Covet a Community Center
A group of people are pursuing the idea of a community center in Canon City.
Good for them. Build a community center. Make a boatload of money off of it. Whatever you do, don’t try to fund it with stolen money.
People can build whatever they want. It’s good to build things that are well-run and serve other people. Profit is a measure of how well you have served others. Christians should be the best at turning a profit, because they should be the best at serving others.
However, I have a sneaking suspicion that those who are pursuing this idea would be wanting to raise taxes to pay for it. If that is the case, they will be stealing money from some who have no intention of using the facility to subsidize reasonable prices for those who will use it. Taxation is taking money from people by threats of force. Theft is taking money from people by threats of force.
There is no magical ceremony that can change theft into not theft. Getting 50% plus one to vote in favor of a tax increase isn’t the magical ceremony that makes taxation any less violent.
Covetousness leads to theft, and if these people covet a community center, they are in sin. Voting for any tax increase is to violate the Tenth Commandment.
Do Not Fear
The most often repeated command in Scripture is, “Do not fear.” I admit that sometimes it is hard to be optimistic, but the future belongs to Christians (1 Corinthians 3:21-23). Christianity is the only true worldview; all other worldviews lead to death. Therefore, it is the only successful worldview.
It has been shown that those who are optimistic are more likely to succeed. Things change constantly. Things we used to do may not work like they used to, but we can find new things to do that work better.
I think that is the problem that conservatives/Republicans are having now. People are scared to death of Muslims. They’re scared of free trade. It’s really lame. America benefits from free trade. America benefits from Muslims who come here and often convert to Christianity. Christianity is better than Islam; Muslims should be afraid of all the converts they lose to us.
So, conservatives are afraid, and they run to the government to get rid of free trade. They run to the government to keep Muslims out. There is much more to fear from the government than from freedom. And God won’t bless disobedience to His law as even conservatives move to greater socialism.
Do not fear!
Heroes Behind the Badge – Protecting Travelers From Cheap Lodging
City councilmen are just pushing papers. They need boots on the ground to enforce their policies.
The Best Demonstration Of Tony Miano’s Stupidity
I used to like Tony Miano, but he has demonstrated over and over that he is untrustworthy. It’s acceptable to be stupid. It happens. The problem is when you’re stupid and you don’t know it and insist on demonstrating the stupidity to everyone you can. The internet has provided a platform for him to demonstrate his stupidity over and over to a lot of people. He’s overreached on the capacity of his intelligence by insisting on speaking when he should be quiet.
He would be great if he simply posted videos of himself witnessing and preaching on the street. That would be great. That’s a very important thing. and he’s good at it. But he’s started podcasts and blogs and insists on commenting on things he obviously has no business speaking on.
I’ve shown all of that to be true before on this very website, but below is just an amazing display that illustrates more than I could in 50 articles.
Here, Tony’s intellectual inadequacy and the irrational hatred of AHA is demonstrated better than anything I’ve seen yet. He thanks the abolitionist girl for handing him literature, until he finds out she’s AHA and then he turns on her. Notice he doesn’t hold the guy who also interrupted him to say it’s AHA material to the same standard.
He’s sitting in a public place, and everyone is just supposed to know that he’s (for some unexplained reason) reading the Bible to people via the internet, and is not supposed to be interrupted.
Answers to Larken Rose’s Questions
Larken Rose is an anarchocapitalist who posed these questions to someone who is opposed to anarchism. I’d like to answer his questions from a Christian theonomist perspective.
I have learned a lot from anarchocapitalists, and Larken in particular makes a lot of good points. I’d agree wholeheartedly with much of what anarchists say, but I think they don’t have a philosophical foundation for their system (which only Christianity can provide), though I love to see them ripping our current system to shreds.
So here are his five questions. I’ll put his writing in italics and answer the question just below each question.
1) Is there any means by which any number of individuals can delegate to someone else the moral right to do something which none of the individuals have the moral right to do themselves?
No human can delegate any moral rights. However, absolute morality, which Larken appeals to even though he’s not a Christian, can only come from God’s law. Part of God’s law specifies that there is one purpose and only one purpose for government: to punish evildoers. So there is a group of people (which would be a tiny fraction of the size of our current government) who do have the right to preside over trials and aid the people in carrying out justice.
I’m still trying to figure out what anarchists believe about how to punish criminals, so I don’t want to misrepresent what they believe, but I think there are some anarchists who would agree with that preceding paragraph.
To pick on the non-Christian viewpoint a little, Larken says that moral rights can’t be delegated, but why not? It seems to me that apart from God’s definition of good and evil, whoever has the most guns gets to define morality however they want. He might say that we learn right from wrong by Kindergarten, and I’d say that is because we’re created in God’s image. So he’s resting his whole view on blind faith that we all seem to know right from wrong, when there can be no such thing as absolute morality apart from Christianity.
2) Do those who wield political power (presidents, legislators, etc.) have the moral right to do things which other people do not have the moral right to do? If so, from whom and how did they acquire such a right?
As previously stated, judges have the right to preside over a trial and sentence someone to the proper, just punishment. The kings in Israel were not to wield executive power or to establish an army, but were the supreme judge of the land.
3) Is there any process (e.g., constitutions, elections, legislation) by which human beings can transform an immoral act into a moral act (without changing the act itself)?
No. This is a good point. I tried to express this to people in my community who supported the sales tax hike for roads last November. It was often like talking to a brick wall.
4) When law-makers and law-enforcers use coercion and force in the name of law and government, do they bear the same responsibility for their actions that anyone else would who did the same thing on his own?
Absolutely. God is no respecter of persons.
5) When there is a conflict between an individual’s own moral conscience, and the commands of a political authority, is the individual morally obligated to do what he personally views as wrong in order to “obey the law”?
God’s law is the standard by which all other laws are to be judged. A law that contradicts God’s law doesn’t need to be obeyed. However, I’m sure Larken would agree that some battles aren’t worth fighting, or are too costly to fight. I think that even though the income tax laws amount to theft, I ought to pay them, because I have a responsibility to be with my family if I’m able. I pay the thief, because he has a gun to my head–not because I have a moral responsibility to pay.
Question and Answer Time
Someone asked Bojidar Marinov about whether local church membership is the decentralized solution we hope for, and that speaking of the universal church and downplaying the local church is more of a collectivist (bad) way of thinking.
Bojidar’s Answer:
The argument here is not between the local church and the universal church. The argument here is between the individual and the local church. Notice how no one argues against local ACTION. We are arguing against MANDATORY “local church membership.” If a group of people got together and decided, “We will act locally,” this is one thing. When a group of people got together and said, “No one is legitimate unless they submit to us,” this is another thing altogether.
It is like the clan of which I wrote in my article in clan society. Yes, the clan may act locally, but the ideology of the clan is just as collectivist as that of the totalitarian state. Our argument against the clan is the nuclear family. In the same way, the “local church membership” is where collectivism is. Our argument is: the individual doesn’t need that “membership” in order to be a Christian.
Besides, “local church membership” is never used to ACT locally. It is always used to NOT act at all. No group needs formal membership to act. The very purpose of formal membership is to limit action.
The concept of the universal church here is invoked not to replace the local church as a bureaucracy with the universal church as a bureaucracy. The universal church as defined by the Reformed Confessions is not an organization. It is only used to oppose a different concept of membership to the bureaucratic concept. It is not that an individual “joins” a church. It is that in baptism, an individual becomes part of the Church, and therefore the Church goes with him when he goes out in the world.
To use the example of the clan again, we do not replace the clan with a bigger clan, the state. We oppose the clan with Christendom.
A Great Example of Presuppositional Apologetics
This is a great example of presuppositional apologetics, from a guy who I don’t think is a Christian, and has probably never heard of presuppositional apologetics.
And because I know you’re dying to read that one meme with the KKK guy and the BLM guy, here it is.
