Are you looking for something you can do for Christ? Here’s a list of ideas from Paul Dorr.
• Confront abortion clinics with the love of Christ while reminding them of the wrath of God • Expose pastors pushing to poison many with the vaccination. • Confront local government waste. • Leaflet drop school parking lots on the sin of public education. • Expose bond dealers plundering local county government • Expose growth in local government employment along with decline in services. • Confront cable companies pouring filth into local communities • Praise local magistrates who are fighting to defend families and property rights • Do public records request of fake government economic development groups and point to those profiteering • Confront gay pride parade with the Gospel • Confront local feminist organizations • Confront feminism in the local churches • Lit-drop and picket neighborhoods of local tyrannical judges • Expose miserable misandrist lawyers exploiting marital difficulties to destroy marriage • Lit-drop local bars on what real Christian manhood looks like and invite them to a Bible study. • Confront local police who are encouraging tyranny • Confront filth at local high schools • Take home-school kids, especially boys, along with many of these public confrontations. Expose them to some human fear while teaching them to cling to Christ
I responded to him about this, and he set a new record for willingness to lick boots. Here’s the short conversation.
A police state is one where the citizens are expected to obey the arbitrary whims of police or face violent consequences. That is exactly what Dean is advocating with the meme he posted.
Furthermore, Daniel Shaver didn’t point a rifle out the window, and even if he did, it’s not illegal to possess a rifle in a hotel room. Even if he was doing something ill-advised, like handling a rifle (or a pellet gun) where other people could see him, 911 should have informed the caller that guns are legal. If that didn’t happen, the cops should have knocked on his door and had a quick discussion rather than acting like a bunch of pansies and end up murdering him due to their fear of a pellet gun.
Daniel Shaver completely complied and didn’t break any laws, but ended up dead, like so many others murdered by police. So many cops are cowards, scared of their own shadows and have their guns on a hair trigger. Police should be abolished. Conservatives are supposed to oppose socialist programs, but that just isn’t the case. They are just as socialist as liberals. They just are too stupid to realize the extent of their socialism.
And I highly recommend studying the history of police in America. Dean is the only one confused on that topic. I posted this article for him, and he claims to have read it in a comment he made 16 minutes after I gave it to him. He must be an amazing reader, because no one could really digest all of this in 16 minutes. It is an amazing history, but somewhat long. I highly recommend reading “Are Cops Constitutional” by Roger Roots.
My friend recommended I watch “Uncle Tom” on Amazon Prime. It makes a lot of good points, and some that I disagree with. I think Larry Elder misses the point and isn’t thinking clearly on some things.
Before that, I will say, I love Herman Cain and his attitude and stories. If someone is a racist, that is their problem. It sucks and I acknowledge that it can and has been costly to people, but we are all responsible to God for what we do with our lives. America has a lot of problems, but there are still a lot of opportunities.
Larry Elder, just to give an example of his erroneous thinking, talks about how immigration should be controlled by government, because immigrants shouldn’t be getting welfare. So, without realizing it, he’s defending the integrity of the welfare system of a nearly-bankrupt, evil government. Why not let the government and the unbiblical welfare system die? He ends up advocating unjust, unamerican, big-government, socialist border policies to protect the unjust, unamerican, big-government, socialist welfare system. Retarded.
But that was all just an aside to the point of the movie. At one point, a guy points out that cops are more likely to kill black people. Elder spouts off a bunch of statistics that were beside the point. Police are a big-government, standing army, funded by socialism. They should be opposed by all conservatives. You can disagree over whether police are systemically racist, but don’t pretend to be a conservative and support the existence of police. Larry Elder repeatedly shows himself to be a fake conservative.
The solution is not to lecture people about racism like liberals, or defend cops at all costs like conservatives, but to end all socialist programs (like police) and let the free market dole out consequences to racists. The color that speaks in the free market is green.
Here’s Bojidar Marinov’s explanation of how individual cops may not be racist while still taking part in a racist system. The rest of this post is his words.
Most people, especially white people, do not understand how institutional (systemic) racism works. They think it is white cops hating black men. But that would be individual, not institutional racism. Institutional/systemic is when the very institution/system is geared so that it targets certain racial group.
Here’s how it works:
All government agencies are under constant pressure to justify their existence and budgets. They need to show some activity that the majority of constituents would deem “necessary.” Police is not an exception. They need to show arrests. More precisely, a GROWING number of arrests to justify their growing force and budgets. But in a world of declining crime figures, that is a challenge.
It is an even greater challenge in a society of increasing wealth, where more and more people can afford good lawyers. Especially in the white neighborhoods or in white-collar areas like Downtown Manhattan. The cost of making arrests there is too high.
Where the cost is low is the black neighborhoods. The probability of a black man to be well-connected and affluent enough to cause legal trouble is very low. Thus, patrolling black neighborhoods is like shooting fish in a barrel for cops. They can make their quotas easily, at a low cost, without any hate to any black man. (That includes black cops.) And indeed, there have been multiple testimonies by cops themselves that this is a regular policy.
There’s something more, and this is the really inconvenient truth: This practice is encouraged by racism in the general public that is not self-conscious but still real. Most people react differently to a white man being arrested and a black man being arrested. And in the latter, it is always assumed that he must have done something. That’s why Chauvin was not concerned that he was on camera; in his eyes, he was doing a service to the society. That has always been the perception. The black man must have done something, and the cop is there to protect us all. He meets his quota, and the society has a “proof” that police protects us against dangerous criminals.
Thus, in order to have institutional/systemic racism, you don’t have to prove that any particular cop is necessarily a racist. You just need to understand how the institution/system works.
And if you want an analogy, no socialist self-consciously hates successful people. It’s when the system is applied, it destroys success by its own operation. Same with systemic racism.
That’s why police needs to go. It will always target the weakest minorities in order to justify its existence. The only solution to it is a return to an America without a standing army on home soil.
“Many of the same people who today complain about vaccination passports are also the kind of people who would complain about “illegal” immigrants, insisting that everyone must go through the government process of getting a visa.”
“Ironically, however, an immigration visa is, among other things, also a vaccination passport itself. One can’t apply for it unless they present a proof of having been vaccinated. We are talking about 6 to 10 different mandatory vaccines, depending on the country of origin. That is a mandatory part of the legal immigration process.”
“I have said it many times before: Whatever you want the government to do to the stranger, it will eventually do it to you. There is no escape from this rule.”
“Enjoy your vaccination passports. And remember: you asked for them.”
Here’s another great post from Nicholas Perez, prompted by James White saying he’s become a postmillennialist:
If I were a pastor converted to postmil, I’d have to think about the fact that Jeremiah 31 and several other passages expressly teach that realization of the New Covenant/postmil hope involves the gradual ABOLITION of pastors and any special class of leadership.
Then I’d ask myself why after 2,000 years, pastors and special leaders have only gradually increased, while Christ has decreased.
Which would lead me to the conclusion that the Body of Christ is at this point in Church history burdened by leaders rather than edified.
I’d repent of making a career on the backs of the people of God. I’d get a job, or start a business. I’d sooner scrub pots and pans than participate in the Ministry Complex which perpetuates the immaturity of the Saints.
What shall we say if this line of reason is sound? Our only conclusion can be that if a pastor professes to be Postmillennial, yet continues to hold his position of leadership, knowing he is a cancer to the Body rather than a blessing, we have no reason to believe he is Postmillennial at all. Maybe not even a believer. If we are being charitable, he is so hopelessly schizophrenic that nobody should ever pay attention to a word he presumptuously says.
You may already know that I’m a huge critic of American police. I think police, as an institution, is evil and unAmerican. It ought not even exist. I have called police as a gang repeatedly on this blog, which you can see multiple examples of by clicking here.
I’m astonished to find out that the Denver police agree with me on this topic. The Denver PD is the biggest gang in Denver. They are the biggest by personnel, by funding and by amount of theft and evil committed, by far. If they ceased to exist, there would be far less crime in Denver, because they are the biggest criminals. The private criminals couldn’t compete with the cops, even if they were allowed to run free. In the video below, you see this man, whose life has been ruined by these evil thugs, explain how a Denver cop admitted to him that they’re the biggest gang in Denver.
I had this conversation today on Facebook with a random liberal. Her first comment was in regards to Joe Biden increasing funding for something in Central America.
In case you missed it, I didn’t say “anarchist government”. I said “antichrist government”.
Liberals pretend to be so nice and caring that they’re in favor of spending money on whatever do-good program. Of course, they are in favor of forcing you at gunpoint to pay for whatever that program is. They love guns and violence as long as it’s the government using the guns to force everyone to pay for their loving program.
We should all be pissed and pointing out how evil they are, and not let any liberal get a pass on their hypocrisy and evil. I would bet that many people reading this are conservatives and rooting me on. Unfortunately, conservatives have the same problem. They want to force people to pay for police and military and whatever their programs are. Liberals want bleeding heart stuff. Conservatives want guns and power. Both are equally evil and sick and socialist.
A guy from my former church, who is one of the higher ups in the church, and occasionally preaches, posted this stupidity on Facebook:
What I keep coming back to is the life of Jesus. Where is the biblical case for Christians being involved in political activism? When do we ever see Jesus involving himself in the politics of his day? Jesus and his disciples lived in tumultuous times too… the Romans completely razed large sections of Israel and killed hundreds of thousands just a few years after Jesus’ resurrection and during the early formation of the Church. But what was Jesus’ response to Pilate when asked if he was a king? “Jesus said, ‘My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.'” That seems pretty cut and dry to me. As followers of Christ our hope is in the resurrection and the kingdom to come.
It’s as if he never read a page in the New Testament. I will correct these common arguments, and answer his questions that young Christians ought to be able to answer, much less those who have had formal Bible training.
“Where is the biblical case for Christians being involved in political activism?”
Has this guy ever heard of the Great Commission? We are to make disciples of the nations, and teach them (the nations) to obey everything Christ commanded. That is done partially, by proclaiming the death, burial and resurrection of Christ to individuals. But, it’s not just individuals who are to obey all of Christ’s commands, but all of the nations.
One of Christ’s commands is, “You shall not steal.” This precludes socialism and our current fiat currency/Federal Reserve system and 95% of all government activities. Governments don’t get to steal anymore than individuals.
Another command is, “You shall not murder.” Do you think this might have implications for abortion laws and defense policy? You bet your sweet bippy.
I don’t think every single Christian has to be involved in political activism if you define it as campaigning for a candidate or cause. But, we should all work towards expanding the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God doesn’t spread by voting or campaigning, necessarily, but working to expand the Kingdom of God is political activism.
What is God’s Kingdom? It is every area of life that has been brought under the healing power of the gospel. The purpose of the gospel is to bring that healing by putting everything under the lordship of Christ.
Furthermore we are all to aspire to maturity, which means knowing God’s Word and knowing how to judge righteously (1 Corinthians 2:15). The Bible talks often of politics so where it speaks on politics, we should know what it says, and be ready to apply it in the real world.
To sum it up, Bojidar Marinov says this, “Behind every case of injustice, there is a case of idolatry. And where there is systemic injustice in a system, this is only because there is systemic idolatry embedded in that system. And if the church is not speaking against injustice, then the church is not speaking against idolatry, and therefore the church is not preaching the Gospel.”
So yes, the Bible teaches us to be politically active.
The next question is:
“When do we ever see Jesus involving himself in the politics of his day?”
The Bible reaffirms the Old Testament teaching on proper government in Romans 13. It says the only purpose of government is to be God’s servant to carry out God’s wrath on the evildoer (verses 3-4). God’s Word applies to all areas of life and magistrates are explicitly supposed to be servants of God and seeking His will in their work. The government of the Old Testament was strictly judicial, and so is the proper government described in Romans 13.
Jesus spoke on the proper punishment for rebellious sons (Mark 7:1-13). He reaffirmed Old Testament jurisprudence when He disqualified the witnesses against the woman caught in adultery (John 7:53-8:11). He called Herod a fox (Luke 13:32). And there are many other examples.
If Joe Biden were to be truly born again and seek to serve Christ through his daily work, would that affect his policies? I think we would all agree that there are differences between how Christians ought to behave in office and how an unbeliever typically behaves. That is because Scripture has a standard to hold leaders to, it defines who a leader is and what is required of someone who thinks of themselves as a leader.
Here is Justin’s next argument referencing John 18:33-40):
“Jesus and his disciples lived in tumultuous times too… the Romans completely razed large sections of Israel and killed hundreds of thousands just a few years after Jesus’ resurrection and during the early formation of the Church. But what was Jesus’ response to Pilate when asked if he was a king? “Jesus said, ‘My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.'” That seems pretty cut and dry to me.”
What did Jesus mean when He said His kingdom is not of this world? He was explaining to Pilate how He could be a king while being in a serious legal predicament, apparently not having an army to defend Him. What Pilate didn’t understand is that Jesus wasn’t a believer in the power religion (the worship of power) like Pilate. Jesus taught the opposite of power religion: that the greatest leaders are humble servants, and victory doesn’t come through power, but through service and the power of God; the last will be first and the first will be last. Jesus was saying that the source of His authority didn’t come from earthly armies, not that the Kingdom of God isn’t on earth.
At this point, we go back to the Great Commission to see that all authority in heaven and on earth have been given to Christ. The disciples, and Christians to this day are to continue to make disciples of the nations and teach them to obey all the commands of Christ.
Christianity provides a complete worldview. The Bible is profitable for correction on every topic. Of course, we should be involved in politics. Unfortunately, I believe that we will suffer consequences for selling out for Donald Trump. And our strategy shouldn’t be so hyper focused on presidential politics anyway. But stupidity like this person who is supposed to know the Bible is going to cause huge problems as well.
There was an interesting discussion on Bojidar Marinov’s Facebook post. Here it is:
Bojidar’s Post:”Everybody’s ballistic about Big Tech censoring Trumpists. Nobody is asking the real question: How did Christians and conservatives in general end up so culturally and economically powerless to be at the mercy of a few CEOs?”
Commenter: “Lack of embracing alternative sources for the sake of ease of use?”
Bojidar: “That’s too easy and self serving.”
Commenter: “So instead of beating around the bush for an answer you are searching for… what is YOUR answer?”
Bojidar: “I am sure that when you search your Bible for reasons why God delivers a people in the hands of their enemies, “failure to embrace alternative sources” is not on the list.”
Commenter: “So your answer is that this is a judgement against trumpists?”
Bojidar: “Or against all of God’s people in America.”
Commenter: “Quite possible. I have been consistently critical of basically an absent church.”
Bojidar: “Now’s the time to turn up the heat on the church.”
Commenter: “Well, right now, many “Christians” are essentially tone deaf to hear reasonable criticisms, being very focused on their “losses”. My wife and I listened to what amounts to an apostate minister, trying to go all “end times” on his congregation.
Bojidar: “That’s OK. There’s always a remnant. Read “Isaiah’s Job.” Then read “Isaiah’s Digital Job.” The tone-deaf will never recover from their losses. The remnant will triumph.”
Here are the links to the articles he talks about. I read the first one and it’s a little long winded for a simple point. https://mises.org/library/isaiahs-job
