Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Good News

People say the cops are great and they’ll protect our rights. It’s the politicians that are the problem. Well, this shows how both are the problem. Obviously, the politician is a dirtbag, but the cop escorts this woman out and does the bidding of the dirtbag. He has no brain between his ears, and is unwilling to stand up for what’s right. He just does what he’s told and probably takes pleasure in shoving and manhandling the woman anyway.

But the good news is this took place in 2012 and this woman has been awarded $200,000 for this injustice.

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More Stupidity

Below is a post from a Christian on Facebook. I have responded to one of his post’s in the past.

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This guy is essentially presenting an argument that goes like this:
1. Traffic stops are dangerous.
2. Therefore cops are entitled to treat everyone as dangerous during a traffic stop.

I deny that traffic stops are that dangerous. People are occasionally shot whether they’re cops or not. Stringing together a video of violent traffic stops and posting it on Youtube isn’t statistical evidence, though it can be persuasive. Police don’t have a dangerous job. They ranked as the fifteenth most dangerous job in 2013 between grounds maintenance workers and painters. I’ve never seen a memorial to fallen grounds crew members, but clearly, there ought to be one.

Obviously, if traffic stops aren’t that dangerous, the conclusion of his argument doesn’t work either. But, even if I were to concede that his first point is correct, the second point doesn’t necessarily follow. Maybe there are better solutions to dangerous traffic stops.

The manufacturer of my car has determined the best type of oil for the engine, and specified that in the owner’s manual. If I put in something other than what they’ve specified, I’m risking suboptimal performance, or even ruining the engine. If I put in water, I don’t know how far I’d make it down the road, but not very far.

God knows human beings even better than my manufacturer knows my engine. God defines right and wrong, just and unjust. The existence of police (at least in their current form) is illegal under God’s law. They are tantamount to putting water in an engine instead of oil. Who knows what all the bad effects will be, but cops being shot during traffic stops isn’t the only one.

But rather than my Christian friend calling for the biblical solution, he’s saying that we need to put more water in the engine–saying cops need to be tougher and more suspicious of everyone.

I don’t know this guy too well, but from what I know he is a nice guy, and a devoted Christian. But, the pulpits have failed miserably in that Christians can go on thinking like this. Who defines good and evil? Here’s a news flash: Ruth Bader Ginsburg does not define good and evil. I think American Christians are having a terrible confusion about what is good and what is evil.

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Don’t Yank on the Chain If You Don’t Know What It’s Connected To!

This article talks about how the German people are wondering about whether the Muslims converting to Christianity are genuine.

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Bojidar Marinov said the following in response:

In other words, one bad idea leads to another, and all of them together lead to more statism. People ask for the government to control the movement of people (a bad idea), but then realize that this leads to injustice and cruelty to Christians in the Middle East. Then they try to mitigate this by calling for the government to stop only Muslims (another bad idea), even though they have read multiple articles explaining that Muslims have no problem parading as “Christians,” and then they see Muslims getting baptized in droves. Now, since no one is sure if these conversions are real, the next step is to get the government to decide if they are sincere or not (another bad idea). Step by step, somewhere down the road, because we have been manipulated by irrational fears, we will let the government decide for us if we really are Christians or not, and what does it take to be a Christian.

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Practical Christianity

The Bible applies to every area of life, though you wouldn’t know it if your only source of information is modern American Christianity. Someone asked Bojidar Marinov if there is a systematic theology book that discusses economics. Below is his answer.

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Any area of practical study and application is deadly to anti-Theonomists, for it exposes their nakedness. If they want to be Biblical, they are forced to go to the Law of God, which makes them an easy target for Theonomists who point to their inconsistency. If they want to be faithful to their anti-Theonomic position, they have to rely on humanistic theories which can be easily exposed as anti-Biblical. If you go back and read Joel’s and mine articles against the Two Kingdoms rhetoric, you will see that most of the time all we need to do is wait for these guys to talk on some practical issue – economics, politics, law, etc. – and show how they go against their own theology.

Therefore, the safest bet for all these seminary rats is to exclude such issues from their systematic theologies in order to avoid exposing themselves as inconsistent and as theological hypocrites. Keep only obscure hyper-spiritualized irrelevant topics under the title of “theology,” and relegate life and action and practical thought to the realm of “natural law” and common grace.

Abolish The Police, Christianity, Police Abuse, Power Trip

We Need Decent Pastors! And David Clarke is an Idiot!

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I’m a little bit discouraged today to see my Christian friends post this David Clarke garbage as if this pagan, power-religion cult of law enforcement is in any way righteous.

  1. Kasich is an idiot and I wouldn’t vote for him (So are Trump and Cruz).
  2. Kasich harmed no one by not moving over.
  3. The law that states you have to move over is an unjust law.
  4. Christians bow down and worship at the feet of government.
  5. Christians don’t understand the Bible and say you have to explicitly obey the law.
  6. This cop really is an idiot for using threats of force to enforce unjust laws.

I have another guy that goes to my church who is willing to tell my wife to move out of the country because she opposes Trump. I have my pastor who never moves away from Christianity 101–never moves from milk to solid food. And unfortunately he’s probably the best pastor in town.

Christians don’t know right from wrong. They barely know their right hand from their left hand. What would you expect our culture to be coming to when the Christians don’t even know right from wrong? We need pastors who are half way decent to teach people before this culture is going anywhere.

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Great Question

Larken Rose posed this question, and I think it’s a good way to look at it.

Pick one:

1) Left jackboot on your throat.
2) Right jackboot on your throat.
3) No jackboot on your throat.

Here are typical responses you might hear from statists:

“But if we remove the jackboot on my throat, what will we replace it with?”
“It’s utopian to suggest that no jackboot should be on my throat!”
“If you don’t choose the left or right jackboot, you can’t complain!”
“The jackboot on my throat is for my benefit, and works for me!”
“Being allowed to choose a jackboot means that I’m free!”
“I am the jackboot!”

There is a righteous law, and the law of our government is far from it.The yoke of Christ is easy and His burden is light. There is no jackboot with Christ.

Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God

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The only authority our government has comes from their willingness to use force. They reject the only other possible and valid source of authority–Jesus Christ.

The quote blow is from Larken Rose, an anarcho-capitalist. I agree with a lot of what anarcho-capitalists say, and I thought this was thought-provoking.

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Gang rape is democracy in action.

The entire premise behind democracy is the notion that the majority has the right to force its will on the minority, and that as long as people are allowed to vote on what happens, and as long as the majority gets its way, then whatever happens is “legal,” legitimate and civilized. And that’s just bullshit.

If you want to be morally and philosophically consistent, you can’t praise “democracy” while condemning gang rape. If, however, you believe that every individual owns himself, and that aggression is wrong regardless of majority opinion, elections and “legislation,” then you can, and should, condemn both gang rape and democracy. In other words, be a voluntaryist. If you still feel inclined to vote, here’s a “vote” that actually matters–pick one:

1) “I believe that evil becomes good when the majority wants it.”
2) “I believe that majority-supported evil is still evil.”

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Power Worship

Every conversation is a theological conversation. Every idea is a religious idea.

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Bojidar Marinov says:

In law-enforcement schools, they teach them that everyone is their enemy, whether violent or non-violent. The techniques of subduing are such as to always produce such excruciating pain that the victim instinctively resists the pain, and thus give them the cops the excuse of “resisting arrest.” Police culture is a barbaric, pagan culture; it is entirely based on worship of power and pleasure in inflicting pain. It is really the culture of the Beast, for it produces beastliness in the cops that could be rivaled only by the beastliness of the Roman emperors. Police brutality is not an isolated occurrence, it is a self-conscious religious statement, an expression of modern paganism.

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