https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lsyW_flfB4
What is the biblical justification for the government to coin
money? There is none. The U.S. government went off any kind of
precious metal standard, and now they print paper that isn’t based
on anything. It would be a joke, except that no other country
bases their money on anything either.
When I was about 12 years old I liked collecting NBA basketball
cards. I had a book that would say what a certain card was worth,
and my dad would always say, “It’s worth what someone will pay for
it.” That was pre-internet, and the only way to sell anything would
have been by word-of-mouth, classified ad or a card shop. Card
shops would only buy wholesale. Classified ads were expensive, and
word-of-mouth was limited in scope. I couldn’t have gotten the
amount printed in the books for any of those cards, though on
paper I was doing pretty good.
U.S. dollars are valuable, because people accept them as
payment–not because it’s backed by anything. The government has
no business issuing it, and it can manipulate it (they are
manipulating it) to its advantage. Since 2008, they’ve created
trillions of dollars out of thin air and kept interest rates at
zero. This is making it very difficult for people on a fixed
income. These people worked their whole lives to save for their
retirement and their income is based on the interest they earn,
which is near zero. What they’re doing is immoral.
How Does Bitcoin Help?
I’m certainly not an expert on Bitcoin, but I’m very excited by
what I’ve learned. Bitcoin isn’t based on anything, but there will
only ever be a certain amount issued. So, just like the basketball
cards and the U.S. dollar, its value will be determined by the
free market. The price of it fluctuates. But it fluctuates based
on market forces. No one (no government) can manipulate it.
Bitcoin is also not a company owned or controlled by anyone. It is
a computer program that runs on thousands of computers around the world. Every computer keeps track of every transaction. No
government can come in and shut it down.
The Advantages of Bitcoin
What websites have done to newspapers, Bitcoin technology will do
to banks. They will eventually be obsolete. (I give banks 20 years
at most before they start going out of business en masse.)
With Bitcoin, you can send any amount to any account anywhere in
the world in an instant. No government can take any part of it or
control any part of it. That means credit cards, checks, cashier’s
checks, money orders, Western Union, wire transfers, etc. are
obsolete. You can set up a Bitcoin “wallet” for free and
anonymously, and you’re ready to send and receive Bitcoin.
The Drawbacks of Bitcoin
A lack of merchants is a problem right now. Not many people know
about it. The last time I looked, there were two businesses in
Colorado accepting payment in Bitcoin. If you can’t pay your
electric bill or buy groceries with it, the usefulness will be
severely limited.
Changing dollars into Bitcoin isn’t easy or cheap from what I’ve
seen. I bought some from a website by depositing cash into a Wells
Fargo checking account owned by some random stranger. I then took a picture of the teller receipt and emailed the picture to them.
Within a couple hours, they sent the Bitcoin to my wallet. It
wasn’t too hard, but I don’t know what kind of recourse I would
have if they chose not to perform. They took a 5% commission,
which isn’t cheap, but I thought it was reasonable as compared to
exchange rates for foreign currency I’ve paid in the past.
How To Fix The Problems
I think Bitcoin solves a lot of problems with the Federal Reserve,
unjust weights and crony capitalism rampant in America’s banking
industry, and I’m excited about the future of it.
I think the problems will go away as more and more people start
using it. Exchange will be easier if more people were using it. If
a lot of people were using it, you could put an ad on Craigslist
and exchange at zero cost, person-to-person. If you are a world
traveler, you could buy Bitcoin with dollars person-to-person with
zero exchange costs. Travel to another country with a different
currency, and exchange Bitcoin to the local currency at zero cost
person-to-person.
Another big obstacle would be the ability to pay bills with
Bitcoin. If Wal-Mart started accepting Bitcoin, the usefulness
would go through the roof. But I think the government would flip out if they tried that. We need more individuals to start using it and local businesses to start using it.
I’m willing to accept Bitcoin for my business, and if more small
businesses started accepting it, it will become more and more
popular.
Let’s get government out of the currency business. The free market should determine which currency is best, but I have a feeling the banks and fascist governments aren’t going down without a fight.
Fremont County voters approved the indefinite extension of a 2% lodging tax yesterday. It seems perfect, because no one who voted for it actually has to pay the tax; I doubt there are many registered voters living out of a motel.
Isn’t it great that we can “legally” steal money from people who most likely are just visiting. After all, when we go out of town, we are charged a lodging tax. Never mind the golden rule; the true golden rule of modern Christianity is, “Government can do whatever it wants.”
Ultimately all taxes are collected at gun point. But we Americans are a meek people, so it rarely ever comes to that. Nevertheless, that is what you voted for if you voted in favor of this tax–the use of force and violence to collect funds to advertise to tourists. While voters may have legalized this tax under man’s law, it remains illegal under God’s law.
What kind of brain washing must that guy have received to think he can grab other people’s stuff? Biblically, the government has no more right to grab stuff than a normal citizen.
The Nazis were just doing their job when the executed Jews. That isn’t a valid excuse. Police need to start thinking about what is right and wrong, and stop harassing people needlessly. They should conscientiously object to enforcing unjust laws.
The nanny state wherever this video takes place cares about tires enough to inspect every car on the road. There are plenty of places where no such inspections take place. Right and wrong don’t have jurisdictions. There is a law above the laws of men. And in fact, unbiblical laws are codified lawlessness.
This cop should be ashamed of himself, and it looks like his conscience was pricked.
At 50 seconds, the cop said, “When an officer asks who you are, you have to provide identification.”
That power-tripping woman actually believes that people have to identify themselves to her. It’s amazing.
I don’t know what state that happened in, but most states have laws similar to 16-3-103 of the Colorado Revised Statutes:
A peace officer may stop any person who he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed, or is about to commit a crime and may require him to give his name and address, identification if available, and an explanation of his actions. A peace officer shall not require any person who is stopped pursuant to this section to produce or divulge such person’s social security number. The stopping shall not constitute an arrest.
At 55 seconds, the other cop says, “You’re not allowed to record without asking.”
The First Amendment says that Americans have freedom of the press. She thinks she can bluster her way around the First Amendment.
Thank God the guy was recording.
I don’t like cussing personally, but it’s not illegal. The cameraman was arrested for disorderly conduct and obstruction. The charges should have been interfering with a cop’s power trip. And you can videotape anything in public, including kids. I’m sick of cops not knowing the law.
“This video could have been titled hero cop saves kid, but no, its gotta be Sgt. Gillissie assaults man filming,” Okolecki said.
The phrase, “separation of church and state” isn’t in the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson used the phrase in a letter to Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut reassuring them that they would be free to exercise their religion in peace.
He didn’t say there would be separation of mosque and state; or temple and state. Protestants and Catholics are the only two religions that use the word “church” to describe their meeting place. Christianity was the religion of the American people. It was the worldview of the founding fathers and the presupposition of the people. I’m certainly not saying they were all true believers, but Christianity to them was like water to a fish. It is just the way things were.
The Bible says there should be separation of church and state. The church has its job. The state has its job. Neither ought to try to take over the job of the other. However, separation of Christianity and state is a recipe for disaster. Separation of religion and state is impossible. The only question is: Which religion is the state going to presuppose?
As an example, we can take the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision. The court pronounced that 2 dudes or 2 gals can marry each other. However, they limited marriage to two. The limited it to people. They limited it to people who aren’t blood relatives. They limited it to two consenting adults. They upheld all those limitations, because of the religious beliefs about marriage. Their religious beliefs dictate those limitations.
I realize some of those limitations weren’t up for debate, but they would probably uphold those limitations if they were considered.
You could say they maintained those limits for scientific reasons, saying that the offspring of cousins or siblings will probably have birth defects. But the desire to avoid birth defects is a religious belief.
You could say they limited marriage to consenting adults because children are unable to consent. Believing that a marriage ought only be entered into by consenting parties is based on nothing but blind faith and religious presuppositions.
I have no idea what possible reason they could give for limiting marriage to two people. I don’t think their humanism can offer any possible basis for the outlawing of polygamy. But rest assured, if they come up with a reason to limit marriage to two people, it will be a religious reason.
What I’m saying is that we need the state to openly hold a Christian worldview. It is the worldview that this country was founded on. It is the worldview that gave us our liberty. And as we leave it behind, we will suffer more and more tyranny.
I’m also saying we ought to be honest with ourselves. Ruth Bader Ginsburg may have fooled people into thinking that Christianity can’t be brought into matters of the state, but the religion of secular humanism is being brought in lock, stock and barrel. Can we be honest about that, and stop pretending that the government can reject religion, or make decisions without religion?
Pietism is what is wrong with the Christian church in America. Pietism and premillennialism go hand in hand and have led to the death spiral that our culture is in. I realize this is a 36 minute video, but it is well worth the time to watch.
It’s easy to point out the problems with conservative border policy. Changing someone’s mind is not so easy.
