Practical Ideas

Action to Take

I’m always looking for practical steps to take as so many people seem to focus on presidential politics where you are nearly powerless. Focus on living the life that leads to building the kingdom of God and to less dependence on government for you and your neighbors and friends. I guess this guy is thinking some of the same things as me. I might emphasize or deemphasize some of his items, but it’s a good list.

Some steps to consider, especially in light of recent events.

1. Don’t go offline or camp out some little right-wing ghetto apps (i.e. Parler). Stay active on the main platforms. But expand and “back up” your online network “offline.” Big Tech will cancel, censor, and silence anyone that speaks against the zeitgeist.

2. Build an analog library of important books and documents. Also, download ebooks/PDF to an external hard drive.Big Tech will delete works that undermine their plans and speaks against the zeitgeist.

3. Find a community that is a “winnable and worthwhile hill.” This is a place that is small enough for you to have influence, large/strategic enough to have some cultural, economic, and/or political significance.Ask “Could this town/county become a city-state? Put down roots.

4. Get to know your neighbors. Share meals, build trust, and learn to enjoy each other. And then look for ways to improve your community that builds a coalition around the common good. Make yourself a central part of that work.In other words, be a leader.

5. Buy local whenever possible and reasonable. Open business in your town. Buy and rehab old buildings on “main street.” Encourage others to do the same.Strengthen the local economy and make it attractive to likeminded people.

6. Run for any and all local offices and encourage all likeminded community members to do likewise. You want your neighbors (the ones you’ve grown tight with) to be the depart of health official, the sheriff, head of polling, etc.

7. Belong to a church in your actual community. Be willing to compromise on some secondary issues if it means being more at a local congregation. If there isn’t a single good church, help one get started.

Work, play, and worship together. Get deeply invested locally. County before Country.

Abolish The Police, Christianity, Gun Rights, Police Abuse, Power Trip, Theonomy

The Murder of Jerame Reid

People say Jerame Reid was murdered, and conservatives say, “If he had obeyed the police, he wouldn’t have been shot.”

Maybe man’s law says if the cop feels a little bit scared he can just empty his clip into someone. But that’s not God’s standard. Anyone who shoots an unarmed man who isn’t even attacking is a murderer. These cops may evade justice in a country with unjust laws, but they won’t evade God’s justice. The blood of Mr. Reid will cry out from the ground to God for justice. If cops are so skittish and afraid, maybe they should become hairdressers.

The other thing conservatives say about this is, “He had a gun in his car.”

Guns are legal in this country. Conservatives are supposed to be pro Second Amendment. If having a gun in your car is worthy of police freaking out, I hope conservatives never get pulled over.

I’m tired of people being murdered by police. I’m tired of being forced to pay for substandard, government police services. I’m tired of the double standards of conservatives. I’m tired of liberals seeing that socialist-funded police services are substandard yet asking for more socialist-funded services.

Here’s a podcast from Bojidar Marinov that is related to this issue and is well-worth listening to.

Christianity, Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God

The Problem With Christians

Two of the problems that American Christians have (in this case Canadian Christians, but I have some familiarity with Canadian Christians, and know that they share these problems with Americans) is that they often use a false definition of “church”, and that they seem incapable of differentiating between valid and invalid authorities.

That is touched on by these Canadians being harassed for meeting on Sundays despite their evil government’s order to stop due to the coronasniffles. They have all of a sudden grown a spine, and that has been my hope for what the silver lining of this travesty would be for all of us.

Their response to the government is mostly good. You can see it here. But here are their serious errors.

Problem 1
“For years we have taught our children to respect police…”

Police have shown little to no evidence that they’re willing to ignore unjust laws. They’ve never hinted that they would do anything other than what evil politicians tell them, even standing by while 60 million babies are murdered. Teaching our children to respect police is foolish. Their abuse at the hands of police is them reaping what they’ve sown. Hopefully this incident helps them gain repentance on this issue.

Problem 2
The second problem is equivocating on the definition of church:
“Our Saviour shed His blood to purchase the church, and therefore deeming the church ‘unessential’ is tantamount to deeming the blood of Christ unessential, which is a public act of blasphemy.”

Their first use of the word church refers to the body of believers (people). Their second use of church refers to the meeting they have on Sunday morning. The government didn’t say the people purchased by Christ are unessential; it said their meeting is unessential.

That being said, fellowship is essential, and hopefully they continue to defy evil government and evil police.

Christianity

Stroking Wounded Warrior Egos

I’ve been getting junk mail from the Wounded Warrior Project soliciting donations. They act like we should be so grateful to wounded warriors, but I’m not seeing it. They want me to thank these guys for my freedom. Here’s my open letter to them about that.

You guys are ego maniacs. You volunteered and you got the benefits and you knew the risks. I don’t know why you expect anyone to go on thanking you for the rest of your lives.

The wars you fought in were unjust. You will stand before God as murderers unless you repent for it and receive Christ. If you’re proud and go on accepting gratitude for what you did, that will be your reward and you will go on to spend eternity in hell for participating in evil wars.

Through accepting all the benefits and participating in wasting American taxpayer money on evil wars, you’ve done more to destroy freedom than any tyrant ever could.

If any of you actually protected American citizens, like the 60 million unborn babies that have been murdered (10 times the number killed by Hitler), we can talk about soliciting donations. Until then, all your talk about fighting for freedom and protecting Americans is all in your head.


End Public School

Not In Our School

Canon City is pretty conservative. By today’s standard, Canon City in the early 1990s, would have been staunchly conservative. My parents sent me to public school, and they had their misgivings, and it was definitely not openly liberal or antichrist.

However, I did once try to witness to my high school gym teacher (several years after graduating) and he revealed himself as being a God-hating person in that conversation. Recently, the same thing happened on Facebook with my junior high English teacher. On an article talking about gay Polis’ pretend husband, I said I would pray for their repentance. Several people liked my comments, but several supported homosexuality, included my English teacher.

I pointed out that the same defense she used to support homosexuality left her defenseless against pedophiles. There has to be some absolute standard we must hold to. She told me I was like talking to a brick wall, while not answering my objections at all.

So, going to public school didn’t ruin me, by the grace of God. But your conservative, little school with all the Christians may not be as Christian as you think.

Capitalism

Watch This

This is great. You should definitely watch it. If you haven’t heard of these guys, this is a great introduction. If you have, then it’s even more fun to watch.

Freedom is great. Hayek is awesome.

Abolish The Police, Another Lying Cop

Netflix’s Trial 4 Review

Trial 4 on Netflix is a great show and I highly recommend it. It is the story of how Boston police railroaded an innocent young man for the murder of a Boston cop. Detective Mulligan was killed execution style in his car in front of a Walgreens. Sean Ellis was a 19-year-old guy who happened to be buying diapers near the time of the shooting. He made an easy target for dirty cops who had reason to not pursue truth and justice to pin the murder on.

It is amazing how badly the government screwed up the investigation. How they allowed dirty cops to get involved in the investigation of the murder of a dirty cop is unconscionable. Just a couple lawyers and a private investigator working for the defendant were able to conduct a better investigation than the Boston PD who devoted thousands of dollars and 50 detectives.

Maybe the most disgusting part of the whole thing is how Sean’s lawyer did public record requests and was stymied for years by the government entities refusing to turn over the documents. Sean Ellis sat in prison for years longer than necessary because those evil bastards refused to turn over public records.

Sean’s lawyer was able to uncover shocking pieces of evidence against other suspects that the police ignored to railroad Sean Ellis. The other suspects had much more credible motives to execute Mulligan.

Then, after all that, these dirty, old, retired detectives have the gall to say that their investigation was clean. It goes back to my recurring question about cops: Are they lying or are they actually this stupid? It is shocking. Those deluded jerks will roast in hell if they don’t repent. They should be hung for what they did to an innocent man.

Abolish The Police, Christianity, Police Abuse, Power Trip, Theonomy

Cool Story and Proves My Point

This is a cool story from Tony Miano. I’ve criticized him in the past for some stupid things he’s done (you can search this website for those articles), but I’ve always thought that he is a good evangelist. And this is a good evangelism story. If that’s all you get out of it that’s fine, but he admits to some things about himself and police in general that lend credence to everything I’ve said about police. Of course some police don’t want to abuse people, but a very good percentage of them are on a permanent power trip and enjoy inflicting pain. Tony admits that about himself before he was saved.

What Tony would disagree with is that even cops who aren’t out to hurt people are unable to discern just laws from unjust laws, so they go on to enforce all kinds of wicked laws such as protecting the abortion business. So, that is just a side point on this story. Enjoy it.

~ Weeping with Jerry ~
33 years ago I might have taken Jerry behind his county jail barracks and put him in a rear armlock, torquing his arm not so far as to dislocate his shoulder, but to place him in considerable pain. Then, I would have mocked his manhood when he started crying.

But not today.

I was #crosswalking at Marquette/Locust when a car came to a stop at the corner. The driver leaned across the front seat toward the open front passenger window.

“I gotta question for ya,” he said.

“Pull into the parking lot and ask your question,” I replied.

His name was Jerry. I approached the car and handed Jerry a gospel tract. We shook hands and introduced ourselves.

“My question is this. Why do you do this?” He asked.

“Can I have a few minutes to answer your question?” I asked.

“Sure,” Jerry replied. “You probably smell alcohol on my breath,” Jerry added as he picked up an open beer from the center console. It was shortly after Noon. “I’m sorry about that.”

Starting from the beginning, I shared the entirety of my testimony with Jerry.
As I talked about the early immediate fruits of repentance in my life, which included no longer desiring to belittle and torment inmates, Jerry began to weep.

“And this brings me to the answer to your question, Jerry. The Lord saved me. The two greatest commandments are to love God and to love people. And I can’t think of a greater way to do both than to share the gospel with people. Why do I do this, Jerry? Because of you. I do this so I can share the gospel with you.” I explained.

Jerry’s face was now in his hands. His shoulders heaved as he wept. He cried out to God asking for God’s forgiveness and mercy and thanking Him for allowing him to stop and talk to me.

“I’ve seen you here and there and there and over there,” Jerry explained pointing in various directions, indicating different parts of the city. I see you all the time and I’ve thought of stopping, but I had to stop today to talk to you. Thank you.”

Jerry and I spent more time talking about genuine repentance and faith. I reiterated the gospel to him multiple times. Jerry wept some more.
I’m hopeful the Lord saved Jerry today. Pray for him.

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I’m Not Voting For the First Time In My Life

I’ve voted in every single election every November since I turned 18. This will be the first time I refuse to vote.

Truth be told, I would prefer that Trump be president if I had to choose between him and Biden and there were no other considerations. Biden has almost nothing going for him, while Trump has a little bit going for him. However, my concern isn’t for the next four years. My concern is for the next 100 years. What will be best for America and my family over the next 100 years. I’m willing to sacrifice four years of bad times if, it means that my great, great grandchildren are better off in 100 years.

Here are a few of my reasons.

  1. Trump doesn’t meet the biblical requirements for a leader. If that was the only reason, that would be adequate, wouldn’t it, Christian?
  2. Christians should only vote for people who meet biblical requirements. We’ve fouled that up for 2016 and 2020 elections by nominating Trump, who doesn’t meet the requirements. The best thing that could happen would be for Christians to refuse to vote for Trump (and Biden). This would cause Trump to lose, and we would suffer for the next four years, but Republicans would be darn sure to find candidates that met biblical requirements for many years to come.
  3. All people are created in God’s image, and have a God-given conscience. If Christians could use Scripture in future campaigns to teach people biblical principles and show why a certain candidate should be elected, who does meet the biblical requirement, and appeal to people’s conscience, I think that would go a long way to elect a godly president.
  4. American government rejects Jesus Christ as Lord. It is impossible to operate in a secular manner. If you believe that murder should be illegal, you’re establishing a religion, or submitting to some religion. Since American government is based on some false religion, I choose not to legitimize it by participating. I don’t think it’s a sin to vote, and I would under certain circumstances.
  5. Taxation is theft. Trump is in favor of slightly less theft via income tax than Biden, but Trump hasn’t done anything about the dozens of other types of theft. In fact, Trump increased theft in some areas by placing tariffs on steel. If Biden wants 50% of my income to be stolen by all the various forms of taxation, and Trump is just fine with 45%, and thinks he’s done something great by only stealing 45% of my income, he’s just a tyrant.
  6. Trump is pro-choice no matter how much Christians insist otherwise. You can read his own words. He’s in favor of murdering certain babies, just not as many as liberals.

In reality, Biden is only slightly worse than Trump. We may have dug ourselves into such a huge hole with or moral depravity and national debt that it doesn’t matter who is president. America will be a smoking crater in four years. When will God call us to account for 60 million murdered babies and all our other sins and theft?

Stop wasting time worrying about who is president. Spend the other 364 days per year focused on doing the things we can do, and work to advance the kingdom of God where we can–locally, with our own family and neighborhood. I have many ideas for everyday steps we can take to advance God’s kingdom. But the strategy for most Christians seems to be to declare each election to be the most important ever, and for the rest of the year lament how this country is going to hell in a hand basket and do nothing about it except give up and say there’s nothing we can do but wait for Jesus to return. I reject that end-times view and believe that Christ will return when all His enemies are under his feet.