Last week Richard Land, a pastor in the Southern Baptist Convention, former member of the George W. Bush’s administration, and president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, published an open letter to Newt Gingrich. In it he expresses his good feelings toward Gingrich, and also his concerns that Gingrich [...]
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While to today’s mind it presents a nearly radical picture, the biblical teaching on war and military are the only proper place to find foundations for the topic, “National defense in a free society.” Indeed, the biblical direction is so opposite from what we have known and come to accept as normal, that were it not God’s Own Word, many Americans would refuse even to tolerate hearing it for a second. But hear it we must, because change we must.
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What can be done to return society to a biblical, free judicial system? In this section we will cover two main avenues to recovering a free society: the establishment of voluntary and private courts, and jury nullification. We will also discuss the commitment to Christian virtue necessary to make it work. Private Christian Courts In [...]
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It’s amazing what you can find on the internet. Don’t ask me how I stumbled across this the other night, but I found a quotation from yours truly cherry-picked for the consumption of the radical two kingdoms (R2K) crowd, courtesy of one of the White Horse Inn’s own, Kim Riddlebarger. Riddlebarger commonly hosts a “Who [...]
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Restoring America One County at a Time 8. Courts and Judicial Tyranny 8.2 Judicial Tyranny in America The understanding of how American freedom was lost in and through the judiciary should already be visible from our discussions of previous topics. We have seen how the John Marshall courts energized and applied the centralizing effects of [...]
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Restoring America One County at a Time 8. Courts and Judicial Tyranny 8.1 Courts in a Free Society As with the case of taxation, there is no specially-revealed biblical form of government or courts. The standard biblical passages dealing with these issues (Ex. 18; Rom. 13; for example) describe aspects of providence and common grace. [...]
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Imagine I am your financial adviser. You are paying me to manage your accounts and investments. You trust my judgment; I am the professional, after all, and you don’t have the time to follow the investment markets to know what the market is, what risks my investments may encounter, and how to take advantage of [...]
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If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the road to freedom is rocky, uphill, and lined with thieves lying in wait. The path to restore freedom in markets and even to arrive at a totally free marketplace is the strait and narrow way indeed. Traveling it to its end will require personal [...]
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Much like topics in previous chapters, to talk about “the loss of freedom” in regard to markets is not quite accurate. Although they have often been much freer than they are today, America has never had truly free markets. The causes for this are multiple—everything from ideology to graft, war and crisis, socialistic schemes and [...]
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I am often asked what my opinion is of the threat of socialism and communism to the United States, and whether I see a trend to socialism in this country. My reply usually surprises people: I always answer that there are attempts at producing socialism and even some successes, especially when it comes to the [...]
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