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Who Is the Enemy?

Millions of American Christians have no idea who the real enemy of the kingdom of God is: the U.S. government.

They send their kids to the government for 8 hours per day for 13 years to be discipled by God-hating liberals in socialist-funded indoctrination centers. The kids learn that government giving people things and taking care of them is just fine. Spending more and more money and even government taking on debt and raising taxes to spend on schools is just fine.

When the local police don’t lift a finger to stop abortion in your city, Christians don’t bother to teach the cops that Scripture says that government’s only job is to carry out God’s wrath on evildoers (Romans 13:4).

When the federal government/the Federal Reserve print money and mail out checks causing rampant inflation, no pastor says anything from the pulpit. Rampant theft of the money in people’s savings via inflation is just fine, because Trump and Biden sent out checks I guess.

When government takes over the job of individuals and churches of charity and taking care of our parents and grandparents via socialist redistribution schemes (theft), we’re content to ignore our family members.

When a Republican is in office, even if it’s a whoremongering scumbag New York liberal who makes Bill Clinton look conservative, Christians call for loyal obedience to the government and even demand their children pledge allegiance to our wicked government thousands of times over the course of their socialist education.

“But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil” (Hebrews 5:14).

Christians are woefully unable to distinguish good from evil to the point that they unwaveringly support the biggest enemy of the kingdom of God.

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Biblical Limitations On Government

I had this conversation on Facebook with a pastor, Kevin. What he believes and teaches is absolutely false. Here’s the conversation. His first comment is in response to me saying that anyone who votes in favor of taxation to fund a swimming pool is committing the sin of covetousness.

As a Christian, you might believe that you have a biblical duty to pay every dime you owe in taxes, and I have no problem with you if you believe that. I can see how you’d arrive at that conclusion.

However, Romans 13:4 gives government its mandate, which is to carry out God’s wrath on criminals as His Word defines criminality. They aren’t allowed to collect taxes for schools, roads, swimming pools, or anything other than criminal justice. That means any taxes they attempt to collect other than for criminal justice are theft.

My ending question was, “What is the biblical penalty for not paying taxes?” The answer is there was no penalty in ancient Israel under God’s law for not paying taxes. You not paying taxes was between you and God. It would have been a sin to not pay proper taxes. But there weren’t tax courts or people going to jail or receiving any other punishments for not paying their taxes.

So anytime the US government tries to force you to pay a tax you’d rather not pay, other than criminal justice, they are stealing from you. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay it, but it does mean the people participating in that theft will face God on Judgment Day.

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Greedy Socialists

I’ve said many times that socialists are much more greedy than capitalists. Here’s the perfect example of a socialist swimming-complex advocate (the 2nd comment from the top) calling others greedy because they don’t want to steal from others to pay for her pet project.

What a perfect meme for that person.

Capitalists make money by serving other people. Socialists have to steal from people to redistribute. Government shouldn’t be in the swimming pool business at all.

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What Am I Missing?

I’m perplexed by the behavior of Christians I know, especially the men. I’m a theonomist. Theonomy is trying to apply all of Scripture to all of life. We reject the idea that the Bible doesn’t talk about politics. I have tried to engage Christians in conversation on biblical topics many times. I’ve tried in person. I’ve tried passing out pamphlets about theonomy in church. I’ve tried on Facebook. I’ve tried to be nice. I’ve tried to be provocative. I tried to get them to go witnessing with me. I taught a Way of the Master class and about 15 people attended. A few went witnessing, but no one stuck with it or ended up coming with us weekly.

No one has ever really engaged with my theonomic arguments. Some have said they agree with me but haven’t really seemed to dive into all the implications of applying the Bible to politics and all of life. Some have opposed what I’ve said, almost all of them women. But none of them have carried on with the discussion. They say I disagree, and some have even explained why they disagree, but they don’t carry on with the conversation. The men have almost all remained silent. A couple days ago, one didn’t remain silent, but didn’t explain why and refuses to carry on the conversation. Here’s that “discussion”. I left a comment on a newspaper article about raising taxes for a swimming pool.

My initial comment consisted of four sentences. Which of the sentences did he disagree with? The first two sentences are absolute statements of fact, so he can’t disagree with that. The third follows from Romans 13:3-4, and all of the Old Testament. The fourth follows logically from the first three sentences. It all seems pretty obvious and true to me.

On one hand, him disagreeing is more than I get from 90% of Calvary Chapel men. On the other hand, why is he not willing to explain himself? Does he not know Scripture? If that’s so, why would he comment? Is he scared of arguing in public? Then why say anything at all? He wants to take a stand and go public as not agreeing while not being in any way capable of defending his position.

I think all of this behavior from these people comes from two errors.
1. Having a false understanding Romans 13.
2. Having a false eschatology (end times view)–premillennialism.

They have been taught the bootlicking interpretation of Romans 13 over and over. They think the government has a blank check to do what it wants. Their pessimistic eschatology teaches that they will be defeated more and more soundly until they are raptured. So, they expect to lose and so they don’t apply Christian ethics to government. I’ve tried to explain this all many times and no one really seems to care. My arguments from Scripture apparently aren’t overcoming their pessimistic presuppositions.

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What Attitude Should Americans Have?

I know people who don’t celebrate Christmas because they think Christmas trees and other Christmas traditions are pagan–same thing with Easter. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t celebrate Independence Day/Fourth of July. Of course, that is the date the Declaration of Independence was signed. That is, political leaders in the 13 colonies told the existing government that they were no longer going to submit to them. They were forming their own new government. They were no longer going to obey the King and his laws or pay their taxes to Britain. In fact, they ended up killing British government agents and soldiers.

The patriots wrote eloquently about resisting tyranny and the God-given rights of men. The king was abusive, but only a fraction as abusive as today’s U.S. government. He charged a very small, yet still unjust tax, a fraction of what we pay today, and the colonists revolted. The way the vast majority of Americans twist Romans 13 into teaching nearly blind obedience to government would indicate that the founding fathers were in grave sin. Yet I know of zero conservative Christian Americans who aren’t proud Americans who celebrate Independence Day with vim and vigor.

When I point out that inland immigration checkpoints are wicked, and police are an unamerican, socialist institution, public schools are funded by the most evil form of taxation–property taxes, and so forth, conservatives get mad at me and say I’m the unamerican one and I should leave the country. But who is really unamerican? What is the definition of what America is and what it ought to be? Is it defined by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bible? Or is it defined by proudly pledging allegiance to whatever it is now? If what defines a good American is how proud you are of what America currently is and saying the pledge of allegiance, then I guess they’re right. I’m unamerican. I’m not pledging my allegiance to a country that has betrayed its founding values. I’m not pledging allegiance to a country that has allowed the murder of 60 million babies and takes 50% or more of our income through all forms of taxation or that stops people as they travel through the southern U.S. to ask them what their citizenship is. By that definition I’m definitely unamerican and so are the founding fathers. However, I think the Bible, the Declaration and to a lesser extent, the Constitution define what a true American is and I’m, unfortunately one of the few true Americans left.

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The Best Way to Win an Argument Is to Be Right

I’m not that smart, but God’s Word is always right. If you agree with it, you will win arguments just because it’s right. These guys made absolute fools of themselves. Not because I’m that smart, but because they are arguing contrary to God’s Word.

The original post with the meme is my post on Nextdoor. You can see the comments below the post.

According to Casey, it’s unamerican to oppose taxes! I can’t believe that came out of his mouth. And Gabriel has officially lost me, though I am in favor of diversifying to other countries and it’s totally awesome that he has an estate in Monaco. I don’t know whether I believe that he owns property in one of the most expensive cities in the world, but good for him if he does.

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The Enslavement of a South Korean Band–BTS

BTS is a South Korean band, and I’ll admit I’ve never heard of them, but they make a ton of money. They’ve been drafted by the military and will serve a couple years.

Not everything is about money, but it is an excellent measure of what something is worth. What we are paid for our time is an excellent measure of how well we’re serving other people. Obviously, the most profitable use of these guys’ time is making music. As soldiers they’re not using their time wisely. They produce probably about $20,000 per year of value as soldiers.

What’s a good word for describing when someone is forced to work and not properly compensated for their time and talents? Could it be “slavery”?

There’s no doubt that the draft is slavery, unless someone is doing something voluntarily, it’s slavery. You could make the argument that more normally-compensated people getting drafted, and getting paid a sodier’s wage that is nearly equivalent to what they normally make wouldn’t be slavery. But if they are being forced to do a job they don’t want to do, it’s still slavery.

Of course, we no longer have a draft in the U.S. Has slavery of this sort come to an end for us? Looking at it from the BTS example, we all face a milder form of slavery through taxation. They say that a portion of the money we earn, which represents a portion of our time doesn’t belong to us. It belongs to the various levels of government. We aren’t directly enslaved, but we face partial enslavement.

Taxation is theft. Slavery is one specific method of committing the sin of theft–stealing someone’s time and talents. Taxation is theft and it is also more specifically, slavery.

Everything any government does that is useful and worthwhile could be done voluntarily through people volunteering their time or donating or directly paying for a service. If it wasn’t useful (99% of what they do) it won’t get funded or sold.

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Is Anarchy Correct?

Anarcho-capitalists have taught me a lot. My worldview is informed by the Bible, and I think a lot of what even unbelieving anarchists say is more biblical than the typical Christian. Anarcho-capitalists are willing to say provocative things to make you think. I will describe the proper, biblical form of government, and if that’s anarchy, fine, and if not, fine.

Romans 13 is the clearest New Testament passage on government. Romans 13:4 says that the magistrates’ only job is to be God’s servants to carry out God’s wrath on the evildoer. It’s not their job to educate kids, give out welfare, maintain roads, inspect buildings or anything else. So, we can eliminate 90%-95% of government right there. That leaves us with the criminal justice system.

But Romans 13 is not an exhaustive passage about government and how they are to punish evildoers. The Bible doesn’t allow government to do whatever it wants as long as they’re only punishing evildoers. Romans 13 is presupposing that you know what the Old Testament says. The Old Testament does give us adequate information about what government should be.

Let’s look at the criminal justice system.

Are cops biblical? No. Cops didn’t exist in this country until the 1840s. There are no cops in Scripture. There shouldn’t be a socialist-funded force roaming around looking for crimes. And as if cops protect anyone, that should be done yourself and with the help of your neighbors or you can hire a security company if you’re really worried.

Is prison biblical? No. Prison is an unust punishment. Why should the people have to pay for the food and shelter of criminals? Rape, murder, kidnapping are death penalty crimes. Other crimes such as assault or theft require restitution.

Is taxation biblical? Romans 13 says you ought to pay your taxes, but the Old Testament doesn’t say there’s a criminal penalty for not paying your taxes. It might be a sin, but it’s not a crime. Taxes are essentially voluntary, and only for a government that’s acting as God’s servants.

We’re down to about 1% of our current government. Courts are the only biblical function of government, but what does a biblical court system look like? The courts are made up of judges who are the wiser, older guys around who know God’s law and can judge righteously. There might be a volunteer judge on your street who might judge the occasional case from your neighborhood. Maybe there’s another judge in your part of the city who’s a little more experienced in tougher cases. The highest judge might be a guy in your town who can handle serious, death-penalty cases. The death penalty is carried out first by the witnesses against the perpetrator in the trial and then by the townspeople.

Ideally, all the participants are volunteers, or maybe there are professional judges that are paid by court fees from civil trials or voluntary taxation. I call myself an anarcho-capitalist or anarcho-reconstructionist. Would the anarchists I respect such as Larken Rose, Jeff Berwick, or Doug Casey call me an anarchist? I don’t know for sure. I’d guess that since I say there is no compulsory taxation, that they’d say I’m an anarchist. I tell people I’m an anarchist.

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Covetousness Is Idolatry

This guy is a greedy, covetous idolater who wants to take your money to build a very expensive swimming pool to be operated by the government, who are not exactly renowned for their efficient, cost-effective decision making. I told him that, and I told him government can’t give government permission to steal other people’s things. That’s circular logic. So, how exactly does theft mutate into taxation in his mind? Here’s his answer:

He says it’s not exactly government giving government permission to steal. It’s the founding fathers who gave the government permission to steal. So you see, it’s way different. It was all put in writing in 1788, so there’s a document that gives government permission to steal. It all makes perfect sense. Wait just a second. How does the Constitution, written by men, give a government made of men the right to take other people’s property? I have no idea. It’s his religious belief that he obviously takes on blind faith. There is no good reason to believe it. Ultimately the religious belief he has is that might makes right.

Scripture calls covetous people idolaters (Ephesians 5:5) and he’s putting his idolatry on full display. People always scoff at me on Facebook when I point out the religious nature of these discussions. If you want to engage in a discussion of morality and laws and how you can know things, that’s a religious discussion. There is no way to know anything or know right and wrong apart from Scripture.

The thing that is really reprehensible is this line, “Those who don’t wish to abide by it are heartily encouraged to find another country with a government more to their liking.”

Here’s what that means. We’re going to go on stealing from people and oppressing whoever we want. If you don’t want to be stolen from, you have to get far away from us. We’re not interested in just leaving you alone. We will get in your comfort zone with a 9 mm if necessary.

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Fake Kindness

I’m a mean guy. I point out when people are hypocritical and covetous and advocating theft. My comments are just mean. The people who want to rip me off, now, they’re the nice ones. They just want to get along and wonder why everyone they’re threatening to financially attack is being so stingy. Why don’t we care about the children?

I’m particularly sickened by “conservatives” who are advocating socialist programs like public school. They should know better. Here’s an example of someone who pretends to be a rock-ribbed conservative who could explain why socialism is bound to fail and how Bernie Sanders is a moron.

Her post started out asking for people in the tea party group to sign some petition so that her kids’ school district will be slightly less evil. This would be like asking for the strip club her husband frequents every day to reduce the price of their Buffalo wings. It only legitimizes the strip club and her husband’s adultery. All she’s doing when she begs the government for some favor is legitimizing the theft that funds public school and secular humanist education.

Here’s the conversation:

She posted a couple more responses making similar arguments, and then she either blocked me or deleted the post. I was a little bit on the confrontational side, but some people need a wake up call. Good people who yearn for the truth won’t be offended by a little confrontation. They may dislike you in the moment, but they will love you for telling the truth.