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I've lived in Canon City my whole life. It makes me sick to think of where this country is headed. The solutions are in God's Word.
Theonomy

The Relationship Between Libertarianism and Theonomy

Maximum freedom is found in God’s law.

Here’s what Bo Marinov has to say:

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The libertarian presuppositions are Biblical presuppositions. Where the libertarian presuppositions deviate from the Bible, they also deviate from libertarianism. Theocracy is the closest thing to radical libertarianism that can be had. Anything short of theocracy is short of libertarianism as well. Thus, if you don’t have libertarian presuppositions, you are not a real theonomist. If you think that there is anything closer to radical libertarianism than theonomy, you don’t understand theonomy, and you don’t understand libertarianism.

Christianity

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.

Secession

Secession

The following is from Bill Evans:

Think an election or a simple act of nullification can change Leviathan? You have no idea of how pervasive and evil the U.S. government is (along with its countless, multi-layered, unelected agencies, departments and bureaus) a fiat currency system run by globalist families, and virtual economic slavery via a tax upon your productivity, reducing us to indentured servitude.

Secession (peaceful separation…if possible) is the biblical response to tyranny; it was the founders response. A national, central government with a messiah complex. is unfixable, precisely because it IS unbiblical.

In the same way that the church, through the ministry of the word of God instructs individuals, families, and ecclesiastical powers, it should be informing civil government and the people, that God’s Law-Word provides the only solutions to our problems. The solution to tyranny presented in God’s word is separation, followed by the establishment of a Christian republic (trinitarian/theonomic,)
aka ‘A shining city on a hill.’

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Biblical Illeteracy

A knowledgeable Christian cop posted this:

I’ve discussed the general error of this meme before, but I ran across it again, and thought I would point out another error it puts forth.

When discussing government, many Christians will quote Romans 13 to you as if that is an argument in itself. Romans 13 defines the purpose of government. Biblical government has one purpose and that is to punish criminals. It’s not the government’s job to protect anyone.

For a knowledgeable Christian to espouse an unbiblical purpose for government shows the level of knowledge among American Christians.

Abortion

Great Story

Here’s a story from some abolitionists in Georgia:

It was a busy and wet day down at the abortuary here in Augusta, Georgia, also known as “A Women’s Preffered Healthcenter”. There were many hard hearts and alot of kick back. Nearly 15 babies were put to death here. However we did witness God do a work in a few hearts today.

A mother walked away from this death house and had a change of heart towards her little one. We were able to have a conversation with both her, and later the father, about children, sin and Jesus.

After about 20 minutes, they decided to follow me up the street to the CPC (crisis pregnancy center) for additional help and counseling. They were closed, but we were able to get a hold of the director of the facility. She came down to meet with them and later called me to say the mother had recognized this as “a divine appointment.” Praise the Lord.

During all of this the Stericycle truck showed up. For those who don’t know, Stericycle is the leading medical waste disposal company used by abortion facilities across the nation. Our local kill center stores its unwanted children in freezers in the back of its building to be collected every six weeks and taken to Lake City, GA and other cities to be incinerated. Much like biblical times, when Israel’s son’s and daughters were passed through the fires of Molech, so it is with these children.

When the driver pulled in, I grabbed a graphic image and went to the end of the driveway to call him to repentance. I waited for him to cut the engine off before speaking, but he kept it running and got out his phone and took a picture. I turned the sign around to show another graphic image, and he took another picture. Then he put his truck in gear and pulled out the drive!

As I stepped out of the way, he rolled down and spoke with me. He told me that he had no idea that this was an abortion clinic, and he “couldn’t do it.” I asked if he was a Christian, and he told me that he was a pastor.

Praise the Lord for conviction and those who love Him! This man was willing to leave his job rather than live with his conscience. Pray for this man and his family. His name is Cornelius. This man trusts God for his provisions and wants to do what is right in the sight of His Lord.

Christianity, Reject Socialism

Christians are the Problem

An older guy who is truly a very kind person, and has an official (though unpaid) position at my church posted the following.

With friends like this who are confused and distorting the truth in such a way, who needs enemies? This guy is smart, and a knowledgeable Christian.

If social security was insurance, it wouldn’t be paid out to everyone. But it is mandatory to pay in and everyone collects who lives past a certain age.

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We also know it’s not insurance, because the first people to collect barely paid anything in. “The first monthly payment was issued on January 31, 1940 to Ida May Fuller. She paid a total of $24.75 into the Social Security System. Her first check was for $22.54. After her second check, Fuller already had received more than she contributed over the three-year period. She lived to be 100 and collected a total of $22,888.92.”

Social security is theft. It is not insurance. It is a Ponzi scheme. Government is the enemy of Christians. It is antichrist. That is the tidbit of truth that Christians are missing. There is no city, county, state or federal agency that is not an enemy to Christianity, free markets, and the truth.

Many baby boomers, like the man who posted the meme, are fond of mocking millennials. Millennials are probably worthy of mockery along with every other generation, but baby boomers are the real problem. Even the good ones defend socialist programs like social security.

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Very Simply Put

Here’s a good comment from a friend.

Just watch some cop block videos and if you are a discerning person, you will see that it isn’t simply the issue of police acting badly or there are only some bad apples etc… but the problem is that they act this way because the system allows them to do it..

if the system allows them to do it (as in there are special rights for police officers that non police do not have), then the system is inherently unjust and tyrannical..

Let’s say a police officer is beating the shit out of you because you were “resisting arrest”, for self defense, why don’t you point a gun at a police officer and see how he reacts??
He will freak out and will do everything he can to shoot you first.

NOW:
What about when a police officer points a gun at you with no biblically justified provocation? While the police officer can go berserk on you if you pointed something to him, YOU are expected to be calm and follow everything he says.. And if you try to defend yourself when a police officer points a gun at you, you will get put down.

And if you ever survive the encounter in scenario 1 or 2, good luck actually proving that you were legitimately trying to defend yourself in our Mickey Mouse courts.

Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God

Exposing More Schizophrenia

Larken Rose knocks it out of the park with this one.

If you ask your average flag-waving, patriotic Murican when it’s okay to forcibly resist the thugs in blue (a.k.a. “law enforcement”), they will often have tantrums at you, accusing you of being a communist, or a terrorist, or unAmerican. (That last one is especially funny since they also celebrate July 4th, which honors a bunch of lawless criminals telling the “law enforcers” of their day to get lost or get shot.)

However, if you ask those SAME flag-waving, patriotic Muricans if they approved of the subjects of various tyrannical regimes forcibly resisting their oppressors–such as those who suffered in communist China, or under Stalin’s Russia or Hitler’s Germany, and so on–they will vehemently cheer the idea of armed rebels forcibly battling tyranny.

And if you break it down to specifics, their hypocrisy gets even more obvious. Do they think the people of Germany had the right to disobey, even resist, when the Nazi SS would stop people at random, demanding to see their “papers”? Of course they had that right (proclaims the nationalistic Murican)! How about when U.S. police do the “stop and frisk” routine, or stop all cars driving down a road for a “border checkpoint” that isn’t at the border, or for a “regulation checkpoint” to ask to see people’s… well… papers? Do Americans have the right to disobey, even resist? Of course not (most flag-waving Muricans will say)! Only a despicable criminal would refuse to cooperate with “the law”!

The moral of the story is that a lot Americans claim to love freedom, while also proclaiming that Americans should passively tolerate MORE injustice and oppression than the people of Germany should have tolerated under Nazi rule. And that should tell you something about how unobjective nationalism and patriotism makes people.

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