The modern argument of the two kingdoms is a fairly recent development; it appeared in the late 1990s as a rhetorical retort against Theonomy. For over 20 years after the publishing of R.J. Rushdoony’s Institutes of Biblical Law (1973) and over 10 years after Greg Bahnsen’s Theonomy in Christian Ethics (1984), the Reformed seminaries – [...]
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Restoring America One County at a Time Chapter 3: “County Rights” 3.3 How to Restore Freedom We have seen now how America was originally settled with nearly all governmental sovereignty vested at the local level. This was the legacy of Christian culture, and the better part of it. Early Americans did not have to worry about [...]
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A missionary in Latin America told me not long ago about the problems he has with the local Christians. He is on the board of the local seminary, and when a meeting of the board is called for a specific time and day, all the other members of the board arrive an hour later after [...]
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Restoring America One County at a Time Chapter 3: “County Rights” 3.2 How freedom was lost We have now covered the “county rights” principle which is close to an ideal free society (much closer than what we have today, certainly), and we have also seen how America enjoyed this high level of freedom in her [...]
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When on the evening of January 31, 1709 Woodes Rogers, captain of the Duke and commander of a privateer squadron consisting of the frigates Duke and the Duchess, saw fire on the island of Juan Fernandez, he must have been quite disappointed, thinking the island was in the possession of a Spanish party. Led to [...]
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Restoring America One County at a Time Chapter 2: Welfare 2.3 Freedom: How to Get it Back We have to end our personal dependence on the Welfare State: Social Security is a problem, but it doesn’t have to be a trap. This means we need to learn and plan for our own financial futures, privately, [...]
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Like I said before, you know when the Left is in trouble: They start praying to Jesus. And you know when the Fabian socialists are in trouble: They admit that, no matter what Fabians themselves have said in the past, entrepreneurial spirit and markets are good and necessary. We’ve always been at war with Eurasia, [...]
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Restoring America One County at a Time Chapter 2: Welfare 2.2 How Freedom was Lost in America We have seen how matters of human welfare in a free society should only stem from the legal institution of the family and private insurance arrangements. And we have seen, now, how that’s the way it used to [...]
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Former theist and now self-avowed atheist Dan Barker, who is co-president of the Freedom of Religion Foundation, promoted a “Beware of Dogma” campaign using billboards that also included the line “Imagine No Religion,” borrowed from John Lennon’s atheist national anthem “Imagine.” I wonder if the FRF’s call for everyone to “beware of dogma” includes the [...]
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Restoring America One County at a Time Chapter 2: Welfare 2.1 Welfare in a Free America Having grown up in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, most of us have a narrow mental window through which to view the subject of human welfare and insurance. It is almost impossible for us to imagine a world in [...]
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