Capitalism, Christianity, Taxation, Theonomy

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.

 

 

Basic Economics, Capitalism, Christianity

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!

Abortion, consistency

Eschatology Matters

Some people like to say they’re pan-millennialists, meaning they’re not sure what is true about eschatology, but they believe it will all pan out in the end. I think for some it is just a way to get out of having to study the subject.

But I think it definitely matters. Believing something that is false leads to misinformed and probably incorrect actions. Believing something that is true will much more often lead to correct actions.

I love what John Andrew Reasnor says here. He first quotes David Chilton:

“The fact is that you will not work for the transformation of society if you don’t believe society can be transformed. You will not try to build a Christian civilization if you do not believe that a Christian civilization is possible.”
-David Chilton.

The fact is that you will not work for the total abolition of abortion if you don’t believe that society can be transformed. What you WILL do, more than likely, is work to regulate abortion because there’s no real hope of abolition.

Thankfully there are a few who pit their practice against their expectations.

In case you don’t know what I’m getting at, most Christians are premillennialists, which is the rapture and tribulation and all of that. What I believe is true is postmillennialism, which means that the church will succeed in history rather than being defeated. There is much more to it, and I’ll leave it to you to look up.

Fantasy Land

I Thought The Military Was Fighting For Our Rights

It’s a religious mantra in this country that the military protects our rights. I have a question about that. If that were true, where have all of our rights gone?

I ask, because of this story, where a men’s barber shop is now being forced by the government to cut the hair of some weirdo lesbo/wannabe man type. As far as I can tell, the military has done nothing to protect our rights.

The only times we’ve been attacked in the last 200 years was when the federal government attacked the southern states, and Pearl Harbor, (which was a despicable act, but could have been prevented by FDR). As far as I can tell the only enemy to our rights is the government, and the military works for the government, so they’re not protecting any rights of mine.

There was an ad after the superbowl saying that the military makes the superbowl possible. I have no idea what the reasoning is behind that. I think it’s just the blind religious belief of the statist religion.

I think that this idolatrous religion of statism completely blinds a lot of people. The individuals who join the military have their hearts in the right place. But, they work for our evil government, and are therefore contributing nothing of value. The evil government tells them evil things to do, and they do it. The individual is only doing one little part, and certainly isn’t to blame for the evil perpetrated by the government, but no one is willing to question the blind faith that most Americans hold.

Abortion, Christianity

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.