Category Archives: Reject Socialism

Christianity, End Public School, Reject Socialism

This is Luscious

Here’s a small school district in Ohio where homeschoolers are having a tremendous effect in destroying public school. This is how we end socialism: we stop participating. We stop accepting the benefits.

It’s easy to mock Bernie Sanders for being a socialist, and wanting to make college free for everyone. The question is, are those who are mocking him for wanting 17 years of free education benefiting from 13 years of free education for their children? If they are, they have no credibility. They’re socialist hypocrites who are helping build up American socialism.

Here’s the quote from the article that is worth its weight in gold. If this doesn’t motivate you to homeschool, I don’t know what will.

“And, home schooling is causing the bottom to fall out of public education. There is a whole new subculture regarding home school, and no one hates it more than me.”

That’s cause for celebration in my book!

No one hates public school more than me. If we can cause the bottom to fall out of it just by doing what Scripture demands parents do–take charge of our children’s education, let’s do it! If your children are already grown, you can help parents who have school-aged children. Homeschoolers in your area almost certainly have Facebook groups where you can join and hopefully find opportunities to help.

Homeschooling may be the most important thing we can do to win our country for Christ. And, if you’re worried about the quality of education your kids receive at home, you should be worried about the quality of education they receive at public school. The U.S. ranks very poorly in the world for education. Homeschooled kids aren’t missing out on anything except a substandard, socialist education.

Reject Socialism, Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God, Taxation

A Simple Question

I used to listen to this guy a lot and I need to refresh myself on his arguments. He’s dead on on everything he says about our government. I don’t know if he would end up agreeing with the biblical plan for after our government is gone, but he’s awesome.

There’s a proposal for increasing property taxes for the fire department on the ballot, and a girl that goes to my church asked for a yard sign on the campaign’s facebook page. A guy who goes to my church and is a firefighter told her that he’d bring her a sign. I asked the question: So you guys are in favor of forcing me to pay this whether I want to or not, under the threat of confiscation of my home?

The guy deleted his comment. Whoever runs the facebook page is so ignorant that they said I must have the wrong ballot measure, because they’re not in favor of taking anyone’s home. The girl called me a troll. I said she takes the cake for being a troll, because she actually is in favor of forcing me to pay for her pet cause.  Of course, no one actually answers the question or carries on a conversation.

Here’s the video with the simple question.

Basic Economics, Conversation, Reject Socialism

Conservatives Have No Idea What Socialism Is

I joined a new conservative Facebook group that has tons of action. It’s named “The Deplorables”. I got kicked out of a big tea party group several months ago. I joined several others, but there are rarely enough people commenting there for some reason, even though some of them have thousands of members. But Deplorables is where the action is now.

A guy posted that social security is socialist, and retirees who want to fight socialism ought to burn their checks. I absolutely agree, and I’m planning for retirement hoping to do just that. I understand that some people aren’t financially able to do that, but I always thought that was the conservative position–that socialism should be rejected.

Apparently I was wrong, because a shocking number of the people there are defending social security. They say things like we paid into it, so it’s not socialist. It’s shocking.

If conservatives are those who believe that social security is great, then conservatism has been defeated, and the USSR won the cold war. Here’s a sample of the conversation I had in the Deplorables group.

Abolish The Police, Christianity, Practical Ideas, Reject Socialism, Taxation, Theonomy

What Am I Willing To Do To Make Government Irrelevant?

Why is government so involved in nearly every aspect of our lives? Because Christians have been disobedient. We weren’t supporting our parents and grandparents, so the government gave us Social Security. We weren’t taking care of education properly, so government gave us public school and so on.  Once the government started doing those jobs, we really gave up doing those jobs.

What is the solution? How do we shrink the size of government? We have to start doing those jobs again, and do them better than the government is doing them. Someone on Facebook said that sounds nice, but what are you willing to do? Here is what I told them:

1. I’m willing to homeschool my children in spite of being forced to pay property taxes that are used to educate other people’s children.
2. Lord willing, I’ll be able to rip up my Social Security checks in spite of being forced to pay into it.
3. I’m willing to come when my neighbors call to help to protect them from intruders, so that we don’t have to call the cops.
4. I’m willing to never call the cops/government on Christians because I’d rather be wronged than go to unbelievers to solve disputes as Scripture commands.
5. I’m willing to help my in-laws in their old age so that they might tear up their Social Security checks, as Scripture commands.
6. I’m willing to help orphans, widows and foreigners as Scripture commands.
7. I’m willing to listen to ideas for other ways we can make our antichrist government irrelevant and demonstrate the inferiority of secular humanism to Christianity.

 

 

Abolish The Police, Practical Ideas, Reject Socialism

How to Replace Police

I believe police should be abolished for many reasons. However, they do provide some valuable services that will have to be done even after they’re gone. In fact, maybe if we implement these solutions now, it will hasten their abolition.

Others have pointed out that many of the services that have been taken over by government monopolies have been taken over because of a lack of involvement of Christians. I think that applies to many of the services that police provide.

In the vast majority of emergency situations, the cops show up long after the emergency is over. What happened before police existed (mid 1800s)? I would imagine that you would ask your neighbors for help, and as we’re commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, people would have dropped what they were doing to help, even to the point of laying down their lives. In the 1800s, it would have been difficult to communicate your need in an emergency. Of course, that’s not the case anymore.

Maybe those who are committed to not using police except where legally required should prepare for an emergency now. It could be as simple as getting a text group where neighbors can send out a quick text to each other asking for help. There are also apps like Cell 411, which unfortunately doesn’t seem to be widely used. This requires getting to know your neighbors, and maybe having more involvement than the ignoring them that I’ve grown accustom to.

As those of us who wish to not call police are still being forced to pay for police services, this is also a cost-effective solution. I guess it would be the analog to homeschooling for those who reject government education.

I believe this would be an effective solution to the fear mongering objections of those who are opposed to abolishing police. In fact, it is a superior solution, as your neighbors will probably have a much better response time than police anyway.

Basic Economics, Capitalism, Christianity, End Public School, Reject Socialism

Good Conversation

I wasn’t planning on posting this, but these conversations have had a habit of being deleted lately, so I decided to start saving them. This one got deleted, so you can read it below.

I have seen so many shocking comments in conversations on this topic. This Patty Armfield Witkowsky woman is someone I thought was a Christian (I could be wrong about that), but you can see she has no concept of the golden rule, what the Bible says about how to educate children, the antichrist nature of our government and public school (Matt. 12:30) or seeing covetousness as a sin. And I don’t really blame her. You could sit through thousands of hours of sermons in the typical church and never hear anything about these topics. No wonder our country is going down the tubes when we have ignorant Christians and ignorant pastors. This woman’s soul is at stake, and her pastor is heinously negligent.

In another conversation a woman said, “I will never understand the grouchy people who don’t understand this concept!” The concept being that we should invest in our children’s future by voting for this socialist ballot initiative. I’m no psychologist, but I would say the inability to show a little empathy is a sign of some sort of disorder. She really can’t understand why someone might disagree with her and not care to be threatened and forced to pay for a cause they don’t believe in? It seems pretty simple to me.

And in some deep recess of Patty’s mind the thought sprung that people refraining from eating dinner out  is going to help business. She must have been publicly educated.

Christianity, Conversation, Reject Socialism, Taxation, Theonomy

Property Tax is Theft

So there are at least two tax hikes on the ballot for Canon City. One is a property tax increase for the school district…for the children. I’ve posed this objection several times, and no one has answered yet, because there is no rational answer. Here’s the objection, and the response of someone who is normally reasonable, logical and successful in life.

His response is that voting gives the government the ability to steal. I don’t know whether voting turns stealing into not stealing, or just means that government can steal. But what a silly answer. Clearly this is a religious view for him. He thinks there is some sort of magic that takes place at an election that causes property tax to be acceptable.

Pastors need to be talking about this from the pulpit. There is stupidity in America, because pastors are not doing their job. They’re not preaching against covetousness and theft, or explaining that the government is accountable to the law of God.

The second tax hike is a lodging tax, and someone went around and put up an obscene number of bandit signs around town. The slogan on the signs says, “The tax someone else pays.” I hope there is a pastor in this town that points out the obvious violation of the golden rule being promoted on those signs to every man, woman and child in this town, but I’m not holding my breath.

Christianity, Reject Socialism

What is Covetousness?

The Tenth Commandment is, “You shall not covet.”

I mentioned recently that I’m starting to recognize a lot of covetousness in the public sphere. For a long time, I didn’t really comprehend what covetousness is. I would define it as wanting something so badly that it is a sin, or being willing to steal something, or prompt someone else to steal it. The woman in that post certainly demonstrated covetousness. I will give some other examples.

I went to a Planned Parenthood rally yesterday in Colorado Springs to remind them that abortion is murder with several friends. The Colorado Springs socialists showed up, and they were kind of like Antifa wannabes. One dude covered his face with a bandanna, they blocked the sidewalk, and stole signs.

They said that they want to seize the means of production so that it can be owned by the workers. The one young guy said he works 40-60 hours a week for $25,000 and his eeeeevil boss makes hundreds of thousands by owning the company and exploiting him. He covets more free time and money to the point that he wants the government to steal the means of production from the current owners.

Another example of covetousness was a letter to the editor during the last election over the issue of whether the Canon City sales tax should be raised to pay for new roads. A guy wrote that he wants new roads, and the sales tax would be a way for out-of-towners to help pay for them. He revealed his sinful covetousness to the whole town.

I can’t remember the last time I heard a pastor explain this. What if Christians were taught to apply the Bible to their politics and voting? What if the guy who wrote the letter to the editor knew that Christians would immediately recognize his sinful attitude? Why does he feel no shame in expressing his sin in public? Because Christians haven’t taught God’s law.

There are enough Christians in this country that if covetousness in politics was taught to be a sin, very few tax increases would ever pass again. Is covetousness in the voting booth less of a sin than covetousness in day-to-day life?