Joel Osteen, pastor of a 40,000 member congregation and 10 million TV viewers just gave sanction for American Christians to lay aside their faith as they consider politics. “Lay aside” may be too moderate: perhaps I would even consider “trample.” In a CNN interview, Wolf Blitzer asked Osteen a “what if”: what if a member [...]
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Is American Vision contradicting itself? If you read my article last Thursday, “Theonomy’s ‘Radical Libertarianism,’” but then read Dr. Talbot’s article from this Wednesday night, “Libertarianism vs. Theocracy: Is Libertarianism a Christian Political Philosophy?,” you may be asking yourself (or us) questions like that. Let me assure you there is no—or at most an insignificant—contradiction. [...]
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There is a reason we call the revelation given to us from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 the “Bible.” The Greek word biblos (βίβλος) — from which we get the English word Bible — means “book.” The Bible is one book even though it has 66 (39 + 27) individual parts. No single verse can [...]
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There is certainly no limit to the tyranny of an Executive who has both the ambition and opportunity. There is certainly enough to show how a once freer America has been subdued. This has come primarily through three key Executive powers in this country: the Treaty-making power, the abuse of executive orders, and the ascendancy of government-by-emergency.
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A Christian friend recently told me that he wasn’t going to vote for a particular Christian candidate because “he voted for the repeal of the DADT provision.” In the eyes of my friend the DADT act was a “solid Christian law,” and he couldn’t see how a Christian politician could vote for its repeal. I [...]
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War and the Military 9.2. How Freedom Was Lost (Cont’d.) Lessons from the Early Conflicts and Beyond Considering what we’ve learned from colonial America’s early world war, the Feds’ response to America’s early tax revolts, and the clash between Lincoln and Taney, just stop momentarily and consider what freedom had been destroyed militarily just to [...]
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Restoring America One County at a Time 9.2. How Freedom Was Lost (Cont’d.) In regard to original intent, a mere Amendment would not be enough to withstand the military powers its larger brother, the Constitution itself, gave to the new central government. This problem is best illustrated with a tale of two rebellions—one taking place [...]
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Every December a battle ensues over the acknowledgement that the 25th is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. It’s called Christmas. Retailers who make a boat load of money during the Christmas season have tried to walk the narrow line of political correctness by using the less religious “Happy Holidays” greeting. They don’t [...]
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He Who Has the Guns Thomas Jefferson famously said (I paraphrase), “When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have liberty.” Whoever has the power to enforce their will is servant to the other. This same point was made by Carroll Quigley, the prolific Georgetown historian of [...]
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War and the military: how freedom was lost (the beginnings)
Filed under American History, Articles, County Rights Project, Ethics, Featured, Government, History, Law, Politicians, Politics, War by Joel McDurmon on December 14, 2011 at 9:50 pm {13 comments}Restoring America One County at a Time 9.2. How Freedom Was Lost The destruction of the early Puritan-American views of the military, of voluntary militias, etc., as described previously, began with the first skirmish of the first world war—not World War I, mind you, but what was perhaps the first truly world war. Here’s the [...]