If
ye
love wealth better than liberty,
the tranquillity of servitude than the
animating contest of freedom go
from us in peace. We ask not your
counsels or arms. Crouch down and
lick the hands which feed you. May
your chains
sit lightly upon you, and may posterity
forget that ye were our countrymen!
Sam
Adams,
speaking at the State House in
Philadelphia, to
a very numerous audience on
August 1, 1776
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Those were the three goals of Samuel Adams in the
first letter he sent to Americans through a network of
communication known as "The Committees of
Correspondence." Adams coached America toward Independence,
and became known as "The
Father of the American Revolution."
But if Sam Adams could spend a month in your home, see what has
happened to the government he helped create, and see how you react
to it, he would say
- You are NOT a Real American
- You are not a Genuine Christian
- You are a bad steward of the gifts, talents, rights and
privileges endowed to you as a human being by your Creator.
Consider these contrasts:
- The Boston Tea Party
in 1773 involved a tax on tea of 3
pence per pound.
- You pay ten
times more in taxes on every gallon of gas.
- Adding up the Stamp
Act, the tea tax, and all other colonial taxes, put a tax
burden on the American colonists of about
2%.
- If you pay one dime
in federal income tax, then Washington D.C. is taking
over 50% of everything you earn.
- The Declaration of
Independence says you have a right -- nay, a duty
-- to abolish any government that becomes a "tyranny."
No intelligent, reasonable person could deny that Washington
D.C. is a far greater mega-tyranny than the British government
Sam Adams helped abolish in 1776.
- Not only are you not
living up to the principles of the Declaration of
Independence, you went to a school where the government prohibited
your teachers from teaching you that the Declaration of
Independence is really true. (And you've
never even thought about that!)
- Sam Adams, John
Hancock, Paul Revere, and every other revolutionary member of
the original Tea Party movement risked "our
Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor" in defense
of "Liberty Under God."
- Really, now; what similar
sacrifices are you making? What risks are you taking? How much are you investing in yourself, your future, your world?
- They would all be
ashamed to call you an American.
- Sure, you're a better
American than 90% of all "Americans" today, but that's
not saying much.
- America was once the
most prosperous and most admired nation in
history.
- The United States is
now utterly and embarrassingly bankrupt
and despised
even by former admirers.
You too are in debt, and lack the admirable character
of Sam Adams' generation.
All of this can change.
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- An Extraordinary Christian
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Frequently Asked Question #1:
"Is this some kind of militia group?"
"Do you store arms and prepare for Armageddon or something
crazy like that?"
No. Not at all.
In fact, we believe the American Revolution was a violation
of Biblical Principles of peace, forgiveness, and submission
to "the powers that be."
We believe the original Boston Tea Party was an
unChristian act of vandalism (so did John Adams and Ben
Franklin).
Although we respect them, we don't worship America's Founding
Fathers.
What is a Personal Coach?
The Bible says life is like a race.
If you want to win the gold, get a
coach.
Consider theses
verses:
You've
all been to the stadium and seen
the athletes race. Everyone runs;
one wins.
Run to win.
All good athletes train hard. They
do it for a gold medal that
tarnishes and fades. You're after
one that's gold eternally.
I don't know about you, but I'm
running hard for the finish line.
I'm giving it everything I've got.
No sloppy living for me! I'm
staying alert and in top
condition. I'm not going to get
caught napping, telling everyone
else all about it and then missing
out myself.
1
Corinthians 9:24-26 ("The
Message")
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And
in the case of an athlete, no one
is crowned without competing
according to the rules.
2
Timothy 2:5 (NRSV)
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Let
us lay aside every weight, and the
sin which doth so easily beset us,
and let us run with patience the
race that is set before us.
Hebrews
12:1
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Thou
therefore endure hardness, as a
good soldier of Jesus Christ. No
one serving in the army gets
entangled in everyday affairs; the
soldiers aim is to please the
enlisting officer.
2
Timothy 2:3-4 (NRSV)
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I
have fought the good fight, I have
finished the race, I have kept the
faith.
2
Timothy 4:7
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the
Holy Spirit testifies that in
every city chains and tribulations
await me. But none of these things
move me; nor do I count my life
dear to myself, so that I may
finish my race with joy, and the
ministry which I received from the
Lord Jesus, to testify to the
gospel of the grace of God.
Acts
20:23-24 (NKJV)
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What I Propose
Here are the guts of the Samuel Adams Coaching Program:
- Cut out one hour of the mainstream media every day.
- Rush Limbaugh
- "All Things Considered"
- Harry Potter
- Facebook
- Anything on TV
- If you're one of the last 15 people in America who reads a
newspaper, fuggitaboutit. If you clip coupons, fine. If you
think you're becoming an extraordinary person by reading it,
think again. Add it to the list of things to cut. (Same with
"news aggregators." Reading "Drudge
Report" will not make you an extraordinary
American.)
- Substitute one hour of the Samuel Adams Coaching Program
- Read the five most important works in the history of
Western Civilization over the course of 365 days. (You'll
find out what they are in a moment.)
- Follow our program to develop virtue and character.
- Begin to mentor another person
- Got questions? We've got answers. Over 2,000 webpages,
each with links to trusted resources.
This website offers everything you need to get started - Free!
If you make a tax-deductible donation to the non-profit
organization that sponsors Samuel Adams Coaching, you can
join a community of kindred spirits who will hold you accountable,
and you'll get a personal coach to help you make extraordinary
progress.
Please let me share Five Things
to prove you are a victim of educational
malpractice, and to persuade you to hire me as your
personal development coach.
If you hire me, I will guide you into the
most beneficial, massive, lasting personal
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This program will completely alter the way you think
about the world, and it will transform your personal
character. Just as America was once the most prosperous and
admired nation on earth, you will become a person admired by others,
and you will become prosperous and successful -- even if you have to
risk "your life, your
fortune, and your sacred honor" and get arrested
and imprisoned first.
After sharing these Five Things,
I'll describe the Samuel Adams curriculum: The Five Most
Important Works in the History of Western Civilization, which we
will read over the next 365 days.
These Five Things will prove
to you that this curriculum is the exact
same program that made America the most extraordinary nation in
human history and will transform you into
an Extraordinary American
an Extraordinary Christian
an Extraordinary Human Being
You will study the five subjects that every colonial
American teenager had studied by the time he graduated from high
school. The Internet makes it possible to cram an entire colonial
childhood education into one year of online home study. (We assume
you already know "The Three R's.")
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5 Things to Know
5 Books to Read
But before we tell you the five books we're
going to read, there are five
things you need to know about your deformed
education, your dysfunctional worldview, and your heathen
religion. Conveniently, each of these five
things has three parts.
- Three Subjects Banned From Public Schools
- Religion
- Vertical: Our relationship to God
- God is God or the
State is God
- atheists
banned: the importance of our relationship to God once pervaded society.
- Morality
- Horizontal: relations with others
- source of liberty, "rights"
- Knowledge
- of how the world works
- capitalism
vs. mercantilism/socialism
- knowledge vs. "self-esteem"
- the prosperous discharge of a lawful
calling
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The Threefold Challenge of Samuel Adams
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If he were alive today, Samuel Adams would want you to
become
an Extraordinary American
an Extraordinary Christian
an Extraordinary Human Being
These were the three goals he set before the colonists in
1772 when he circulated his
first letter through a network of communication known as
"the Committees of Correspondence." A few years
later he would sign the Declaration of Independence.
Most Americans already think they are exceptional, if not
extraordinary. In international academic competitions,
Americans score 27th in math, but first in self-esteem,
meaning that Americans think they are the greatest, even
though they are not.
I won't be able to persuade you to enroll in Samuel
Adams Coaching unless
I can get you to see yourself more objectively.
If Samuel Adams were here to day, and could observe you,
your government, your culture, and your reaction to
the world around you, Samuel Adams would be forced to
conclude that you
- are NOT a REAL American
- are NOT a GENUINE Christian
- are NOT a good steward of the gifts and potential with
which you have been endowed by your Creator as a human
being created in His Image.
What is a REAL AMERICAN?
What is a GENUINE CHRISTIAN?
What makes us TRULY HUMAN?
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What is a
"REAL" American?
A real American believes that the Declaration
of Independence is really true.
There are people living within our borders who
do not. They may be hard-working, they may love their
families, they may be nice neighbors, and they may never break
"the
Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." But they are
here on a temporary work visa, sending money back home. But
even though you couldn't pick them out of a crowd of
Americans, they are not Americans. They were born in another
country and plan to return there someday.
Imagine someone who was born here. Call him
"Jones." Jones is a U.S. citizen by birth. Jones
thinks all immigrants like the one in the previous paragraph
should all be killed. He thinks the government should run all
businesses, and take money from hard-working people like the
one in the previous paragraph and redistribute the money to
Jones. Like Hitler, Jones thinks the government should shut
down all synagogues and Christian churches.
In my opinion, Jones is not a real American, even though he may be a citizen (by birth).
A real American believes in "Liberty
Under God."
A real American will also risk
something to protect "Liberty Under God."
We have not just a right, but a duty
to abolish any government that becomes destructive of our
right to life, liberty and property -- in other words, a
government that will not allow us to live in peace. If you
believe the government has a right to kill us, enslave us, and
confiscate our property, then you are a communist, not an
American, even if you are a citizen by birth. And if you believe that the government has the right
to kill, enslave, and steal from foreigners,
then you are not a good Christian.
Most people living in the United States today
are lousy Americans and are not Christians.
True Americans rejected an Empire which sent
Red Coats to impose colonial rule. True Christians reject the Empire
which sends predator drones to Afghanistan.
I deem [one of] the essential principles of
our government, and consequently [one] which ought to shape
its administration,
peace,
commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling
alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
(1801)
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You are
not a Real American
Nobody who signed the Declaration of
Independence or the Constitution would consider YOU to be a real
American -- unless the mainstream calls you an "extremist."
But you will be an "extremist" when
you finish this program.
Men like Sam Adams and John Hancock were
"extremists."
They tossed tea into the Boston Harbor and called their
government a "tyranny."
You, on the other hand, are a zombie. You work your boring
9-5 job like a worker-drone. You say nothing when the
government takes your paycheck for a Wall Street "bailout."
You say nothing when your government kills
more children in Iraq than it did people in Hiroshima.
The tax on tea, the "Stamp Act"
taxes, and all other taxes combined
added up to only 1%
or 2% of the colonists' income. The tax
burden today is 20-50 times
greater than it was under George III in 1776. The
Pentagon consumes a trillion dollars a year. This is theft.
You pay your taxes because you do not want to be locked up
in prison with a psychopath. You don't want to imagine
the violence you will experience if you don't pay up.
A real American believes in "the
American Dream."
What is "the American Dream?"
Most people in the U.S.A. believe the
American Dream is "owning" a home with a
fixed-rate, low-interest mortgage. Everyone who signed the
Declaration of Independence would say that paying a quarter
of a million dollars in interest over 30 years on a $100,000
home is a nightmare, not a dream.
George Washington described the American
Dream as living safely under your own "vine and fig
tree."
Where did Washington get that phrase?
The Bible.
Find out
more about the "Vine & Fig Tree" vision.
A Real
American is a Christian
On May 2, 1778, when the Continental Army had emerged
from its infamous winter at Valley Forge, Commander-in-Chief
George Washington issued the following:
The commander-in-chief directs that divine service be
performed every Sunday at eleven o'clock in those brigades
[in] which there are chaplains; those which have none
[are] to attend the places of worship nearest to them. It
is expected that officers of all ranks will by their
attendance set an example to their men. While we are
zealously performing the duties of good citizens and
soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the
higher duties of religion. To the distinguished
character of patriot, it
should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished
character of Christian. The signal instances
of providential
goodness which we have experienced, and which have now
almost crowned our labors with complete success, demand
from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of
gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.
The Writings of George
Washington, JC
Fitzpatrick, ed., Wash. DC: US Gov't Printing Office,
1932, Vol. XI:342-343, General Orders of 5/2/1778
On May 12, 1779, in a speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs,
Washington coached them:
You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life,
and above all, the
religion of Jesus Christ. These will make
you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress
will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise
intention.
The Writings of George
Washington, JC Fitzpatrick, ed., Wash. DC: US Gov't
Printing Office, 1932, Vol. 15, p.55.
John Witherspoon was undoubtedly one of the
most influential educators of his day. His students at
Princeton University included one President, one Vice
President, three Supreme Court Justices, 10 Cabinet members,
12 Governors, 60 Congressmen (21 Senators; 39
Representatives) plus scores of state officials and members
of the Constitutional Convention. Witherspoon said
" . . . he is the best friend to
American liberty, who is most sincere and active in
promoting true
and undefiled religion, and who sets
himself with the greatest firmness to bear down profanity
and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy
of God, I scruple not [would not hesitate] to call him an
enemy to his country." [source]
Most Americans today are enemies of America.
That is, enemies of the ideal that America's Founding
Fathers fought for: Liberty
Under God. The "Vine
& Fig Tree" society.
To be a great American, America's Founders
said, you have to be a Christian. Makes sense, since America
was a Christian nation. (Not that a Muslim or an atheist cannot love living in America, or discover cures for diseases, and raise America's standard of living. But the more consistent they are with their own religion, the more they undermine America's prosperity. America is a Christian nation. Iran is an Islamic nation. The Soviet Union is an atheistic nation. Connect the dots.)
But You
are NOT A Real Christian
Jesus Christ said it's better to be dogmatic
and wrong than it is to be apathetic and air-headed.
It's better to be a Nazi or a Communist than to be a
"moderate."
I know your works, that you
are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or
hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold
nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Revelation
3:15-16
Americans are air-heads. They are more
concerned with being accepted by the mainstream and the
majority than they are pursuing the truth. The majority of
Americans think of themselves as being independent "non-conformists"
in some sense, and everyone conforms
to this illusion together.
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You know less about American "arts and
ways of life, and above all, the
religion of Jesus Christ" than
the Delaware Indians did. You know less about Christianity
than the average 10-year old in colonial America.
Samuel Adams would say you are a victim of educational
malpractice, being a product of an education system which is
prohibited from teaching students that the Declaration of
Independence is really true. George Washington would say you
need to be re-educated, de-programmed, and connected in an
online community with others who wish to become
extraordinary Americans.
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Three Subjects Banned From
Your Government-Approved Education
You went to school where the Declaration of Independence
was banned. Not as an archaic, irrelevant historical
artifact, but as truth.
You have been systematically deprived of the
three things that every single person who signed
the Constitution would say are a necessary part of a basic
American education. These three things are specifically
mentioned in America's Organic Law. But you were never
taught that America's Organic
Law consists of the most fundamental charters of
America's government. Now that you know what the
"Organic Law" is, you still don't know what
fundamental documents it contains. Article III of one of
them says this:
Religion,
morality, and knowledge being
necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind,
schools and the means of education shall forever be
encouraged. The utmost good faith shall always be observed
towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never
be taken from them without their consent . . . .
The Organic Law of America not only recognizes our
dependence on and duty
towards God, but specifies where we should learn about our
Creator (religion),
the rights with which He has endowed us, and our duties
toward Him and our fellow man (morality).
Today, our schools and government are atheistic
("secular"). Confiscating property from others
without their consent -- armed robbery -- is the heart and
soul of our vast "entitlement" social programs.
You were cheated out of an education which began with "Thou
shalt not steal" and "Thou
shalt not kill."
The Christian Religion and Christian morality were to
be taught in public schools.
Even though Justice Douglas concurred in Engel
v. Vitale, the case which removed Christianity from
public schools in the early 1960's, he was honest enough to
admit that
Religion was once deemed to be a function of the
public school system.
Justice
Douglas then quoted the Article above. Then he proceeded
to ignore the law he swore to uphold, and removed
"religion and morality" from public schools.
Soon after that, knowledge
was removed from public schools, because when some kids have
knowledge, that hurts the "self-esteem" of those
who don't. Away with grades, away with knowledge! America's
youth no longer score #1 on international tests.
The average teenager in 1776 knew more about
what it means to be a great American, a great Christian, and
a great Human Being than you do. Transport the average
teenager from 1776 to our time and that teenager could
figure out how to use your iPhone, your TV remote control,
and drive your SUV in a matter of days, but it would take
you months, maybe years, to learn as much about geography,
morality, history, religion, political science, virtue, and
develop the habits of character which the average American
possessed in 1776.
Reading the Bible is the first step in our
year-long program to impose a colonial American education on
you. If you already know how to read and write, the Internet
now makes it possible for you to experience the same
childhood education that George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock experienced. Their
education made it inevitable that they would abolish
the government -- a government which they described as a
"tyranny."
In his Farewell Address, Washington reminded the nation:
Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to
political prosperity, Religion,
and Morality
are indispensable supports.In vain would that man claim
the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert
these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest
props of the duties of Men and Citizens.
The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought
to respect and to cherish them.A volume could not trace
all their connexions with private and public
felicity.Let it simply be asked where is the security
for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of
religious obligation desert the oaths,
which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of
Justice? And let
us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can
be maintained without religion.Whatever may be
conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of
peculiar structurereason
and experience both forbid us to expect, that national
morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Religion is a public,
not just a private matter. You can't be a good
American citizen
if you ignore Christianity. Atheism is contrary to reason.
Sam Adams said,
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws
will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose
manners are universally corrupt.
His cousin, John Adams, said:
[W]e have no government armed with power capable of
contending with human passions unbridled by morality
and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for
a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to
the government of any other.
[I]t is religion
and morality alone which can establish the principles
upon which freedom can securely stand. The only
foundation of a free constitution is pure
virtue.
Sam Adams wrote to his cousin John:
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and
patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age,
by impressing the minds of men with the importance
of educating their little boys and girls, of
inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love
of the Deity . . . and, in subordination to these
great principles, the love of their country. . . . In
short, of leading them in the study and practice of
the exalted virtues of the Christian system.
1790 Letter
to John Adams,
who wrote back: "You and I agree."
Four Letters: Being an Interesting
Correspondence Between Those Eminently Distinguished
Characters, John Adams, Late President of the United
States; and Samuel Adams, Late Governor of
Massachusetts. On the Important Subject of Government
(Boston: Adams and Rhoades, 1802) pp. 9-10
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Three Huge Mistakes America's Founders Made
and why you must avoid them
We have great respect for America's Founding Fathers, but
we're not interested in deifying them, as some Americans
have done.
In fact, we think they all made some really huge
mistakes. Mistakes that we're still paying for today.
Mistakes that could very soon bring our entire economy to a
screeching halt, with international repercussions.
We want you to be transformed and succeed in achieving
Samuel Adams' goals. But Samuel Adams made some big
mistakes.
- He joined men like John Hancock and Paul Revere to
protest British trade and tax policies in an event that
can only be described as an unChristian act of vandalism
("The Boston Tea Party").
- Adams went on to become known as "The
Father of the American Revolution," a violent
war that saw Christians killing Christians over the most
pitifully
insignificant taxes in U.S. history.
- Not listening to the arguments of Patrick Henry
("Give me liberty or give me death!")
George Mason ("Father of the Bill of Rights")
and the "anti-federalists," Sam Adams
supported the Constitution of 1789. This Constitution
would eventually produce the Bush-Obama Regime, an evil,
atheistic tyranny.
I want to believe Samuel Adams was a better man
that all that. I think he would see where his mistakes led,
and would repudiate them. Were he alive today, he would work
to repeal the Constitution, abolish the government it
created, and do this without vandalizing a tea company,
picking up a musket, or igniting a canon, consistent with
the best ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
We'll make it easier to remember these three huge
mistakes by summarizing them in three words that begin with
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Mistake Number One: "Rights"
They emphasized "rights"
instead of duties.
Americans today think they have a "right"
to a first-class education, a high-paying job, wonder-working
healthcare, and just about everything they want -- all free,
of course.
This "entitlement"
mentality is bankrupting
America.
The Bible says to work six days and rest on the sabbath,
but modern Americans want to play six days and work only if
absolutely necessary. We are disconnected from our
calling to work and "exercise
dominion" over the earth. We substitute military
domination for Biblical dominion through service.
We all want something for nothing.
America's Founders did speak of duties (in a way and to a
degree that public schools today cannot), but their talk about
"rights undercut and negated their talk about duties.
You ask,
"What's wrong with human rights?"
If America's Founders could see America in 2013, they would
see immediately what's wrong with "rights."
Ill give you an example.
None of us has a "right to life."
- We all have a duty not to kill, but life is a gift,
and we don't have a claim on life. God wasnt obligated
to create us, fearing that if He didnt, He would
violate our right to life.
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- Only the Sovereign has rights.
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- George Washington understood that God was Sovereign, but
he inconsistently flattered Americans with talk about
their rights.
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- Todays concept of rights is destroying America.
- The absence of a sense of a Duty to God is also
destroying America.
Has your mind been polluted by this toxic
concept?
You must avoid this mistake because it prevents you from
becoming a servant of others (Mark
10:42-45), as we'll see below.
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Consider these passages of Scripture:
Romans
12-13
1
Peter 2:13ff
Matthew
5:38ff
Luke
17:7-10
Jude
8-10 / 2
Peter 2:10-12
Many
Jews in Jesus' day expected the
coming Messiah to overthrow the
Roman Empire in a great military
battle. The "Zealots" were
constantly ready to resist the
Romans and foment violent
revolution. Jesus disappointed them
all.
Everybody
has heard Jesus' line about going
"the second mile." Not one
out of a thousand Americans
understands its historical context,
and can apply it to geo-political
affairs today.
Imagine
Italy invades Israel. You may have
to imagine that some 21st-century
Mussolini emerges to rescue Italy
from bankruptcy and raise it to an
imposing industrial power. Imagine
further than Italian soldiers are on
every corner in Israel, imposing
Italian rule on Israeli citizens.
Now imagine that Italian soldiers
are authorized to conscript Israelis
to carry the soldiers backpacks for
up to one mile. You can easily
imagine that Israelis would be
infuriated by this legal
enslavement, to say nothing of the
whole military occupation and
collection of forced tribute gig.
Now
imagine Benjamin Netanyahu telling
Israelis not to resist the
conscription, but carry the soldiers
provisions for an extra mile. How
long would Netanyahu remain in
office?
But
that's exactly
what Jesus told His hearers to do.
Do not resist armed invasion and
occupation, even if it violates
human rights and international law.
This
one verse completely overthrows
modern concepts of war,
defense,
and national
security.
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Mistake Number Two: Revolution
They
took up arms to abolish the government.
They overthrew the government by
force and violence.
Abolishing tyranny
is a good idea. But not with muskets and cannons. Killing a
human being created in the Image of God just because that
human being is an IRS agent and wants to take your money --
this is not a Christian thing to do.
Nothing could be clearer from the teachings of Jesus and
the Apostles than that we must not take up arms to overthrow
Caesar. Understanding these commandments will require you to
make a complete turn-around in your thinking.
- Violent revolution is always wrong, but getting out your
musket and killing other Christians is even
- worse.
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- When you enroll in Samuel Adams
Coaching, you'll study
the Bible and find out that Jesus clearly taught that
Christians should not overthrow even the most barbaric,
violent, oppressive tyranny in history: the Roman Empire
that imposed a military occupation of Israel.
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- Britain in 1776 was certainly more civilized and
Christian than the Roman Empire, but Jesus and
the Apostles firmly prohibited resisting even the pagan
military occupation of Israel and attempting to overthrow
Caesar by violent revolution.
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- And this was not for tactical reasons or considerations
of prudence or the likelihood of success.
- Violent revolution is contrary to Christian ethics even
if it can succeed.
- Followers of Christ
don't kill their enemies.
- They convert
them. They pray for them.
- They preach the Word of God,
- the Spirit bears witness to the
Word,
- the hearts of the enemy are
changed
- and they repent
of socialism, fascism
- military occupation and
totalitarianism.
- When they repent, they resign
their political office.
- They end imperial conquest and confiscation.
- They end their enslavement and conscription of others.
- We preach; they repent.
- That's the Christian goal, not blowing their brains out.
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- America would be a very different nation if we had
obeyed our duties
instead of killing for our rights.
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- Abolishing tyranny
is a good idea. But not with muskets and cannons. Killing
a human being created in the Image of God just because
that human being is an IRS agent and wants to take your
money -- this is not a Christian thing to do.
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- Huge
Mistake Number Three: Representation
- After they abolished
the government,
They replaced
the government they abolished with a new one.
- Yes, that was a
mistake.
And you'll see why, and you'll have an
alternative, after you read two of the five great works that
we cover in the Samuel Adams
Coaching program.
One of the rallying cries in the American Revolution
was "No Taxation without Representation."
"Representation" in our day means those who
pay no taxes can elect politicians to tax the rich and
give to those who aren't.
The tax on tea that gave rise to the Boston Tea Party
was only 3 pence per pound of tea. We pay TEN TIMES MORE
than that on every gallon of gas. The overall tax rate in
1776 was 2% or 3% max. If you pay one dime in federal
income tax, the government is taking over
60% of everything you earn.
Personally, I would rather have colonial tax rates
without representation than "representation" and
TRILLIONS of dollars of government theft and waste.
What gives Smith the right to elect a
"representative" to steal from Jones?
- Following the end of the war in 1783, Washington
returned to private life and retired to his plantation
at Mount Vernon. He
spoke of his desire
to live safely under his own Vine & Fig Tree,
prompting an incredulous King George III to state,
"If he does that, he will be the greatest man in
the world."
Despite his yearnings, Washington came out of retirement
to preside over the Constitutional Convention and become
President of the United States of America.
Was this a mistake? Would Washington have been a greater
American if he hadn't? Did America really need a President?
Did Israel really
need a king?
- Patrick Henry (Give me liberty or give me Death)
refused to support the Constitution.
- I smell a rat in Philadelphia, he said.
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- He was right. So was George Mason, the Father of
the Bill of Rights, who also opposed the new
constitution.
At first, Samuel Adams was an opponent of the
Constitution of 1787. Eventually Adams agreed to support it.
Patrick Henry never did.
Patrick Henry was right. So was George Mason. So were
other noted
Anti-Federalists:
One can also argue that Thomas Jefferson expressed
several anti-federalist thoughts throughout his life, but
that his involvement in the discussion was limited, since he
was stationed as Ambassador to France while the debate over
federalism was going on in America in the Federalist
papers and Anti-Federalist
Papers.
The Constitution, with its "separation of
powers," "checks and balances," and theory of
"enumerated powers," failed to prevent the rise of
an atheistic
tyranny.
Madison, Hamilton, and John Jay sold America on a
Constitution which they claimed would prevent the rise of
another tyranny.
They were wrong.
As great as the Constitution was, it could not prevent a
tyranny worse than the one America abolished in a war from
1775-1783.
Every single person who signed the Declaration of
Independence and/or the Constitution would take immediate
steps to begin abolishing our present government if they
were here in 2013.
And because America's Founding Fathers were excellent
students of history, if they could see the history of the
world from 1789 to 2013, they would become the most radical
of libertarians.
They gave us what they called "an Experiment in
Liberty," and America became the most prosperous and
admired nation in history. Washington D.C. abandoned that
experiment in the 20th century, embarking on an experiment
in government central planning. Everywhere this
experiment was tried -- Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union --
it left poverty and mass death.
Sam Adams would see that we need to abolish the current
tyranny, and replace it with nothing but "the
Invisible Hand" of 100% unregulated, Laissez-faire
capitalism.
You're thinking: "Those greedy capitalists will exploit
the poor!"
As if greedy politicians don't.
But your moral concerns are valid.
That's why George Washington, Samuel Adams and nearly all
of America's Founding Fathers believed American education
had to be centered on "religion, morality and
knowledge.".
From a Christian perspective, two things characterize
pure religion. They can be summed up in the words of the
Apostle James:
Pure
religion and undefiled
before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless
and widows in their affliction, and
to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
James 1:27
This is why voluntary
charities were everywhere in early America, and why welfare
has now been nationalized by the State.
How do libertarians respond to the accusation that they
do not have enough trust
in government? John Adams wrote in 1772:
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free
government ought to be to trust no man living with power
to endanger the public liberty."
Should libertarians have more confidence in their
government? Thomas Jefferson, 1799:
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism.
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in
confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which
prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom
we are obliged to trust with power.
In questions of
power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man,
but bind him down from mischief by the chains
of the Constitution.
James Madison warned the people of Virginia (1799):
the nation which reposes on the pillow of political
confidence, will sooner or later end its political
existence in a deadly lethargy.
Madison added in Federalist No. 55,
[T]here is a degree of depravity
in mankind which requires a certain degree of
circumspection and distrust. . . .
Trusting government, having "confidence in
government," is un-American.
The British historian Lord Acton put it this
way:
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power
corrupts absolutely. Great
men are almost always bad men, even when they
exercise influence and not authority; still more when you
superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by
authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office
sanctifies the holder of it.
The exercise of political power is problematic. We should
assume that "great men" -- that is, powerful
men -- men who wield the force of "the government"
-- are morally corrupt. This assumption should be considered
confirmed if he increases his own power during his
time of "public service."
Why
a Bill of Rights? | Walter Williams
Why
Bad Men Rule | Hans-Hermann Hoppe
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for any
assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard
the people against the dangers of good intentions. There
are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean
to govern. They promise to be good masters ... but they
mean to be masters."
~ Daniel
Webster
But if the Constitution of 1787 was a failure, could any
constitution succeed?
No.
And this leads us to a very radical conclusion.
Or perhaps I should say, to a very hated conclusion.
In fact, the three huge mistakes we've been discussing
lead us to the
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What is
"Government?"
The
war was revolutionary. It began
by the dissolution of the
British Government in the
Colonies; the People of which
were, by that operation, left without
any Government whatever.
John
Quincy Adams on Independence
Actually, America was still
characterized by "self-government."
The word "government"
can be used in different ways.
- Personal responsibility is
"self-government."
- We can speak of a
"well-governed
family."
- The owner of a business
imposes a form of government
on his employees.
In family, school,
neighborhood association, and
groups of all kinds, there is
"government." When we
obey "the
Laws of Nature and of Nature's
God," our society is
orderly, peaceful, harmonious
and well-governed.
James Madison, "the Father
of the Constitution," is reported
to have said,
We have staked the whole
future of American
civilization, not upon the
power of government, far from
it. We have staked the future
of all of our political
institutions upon the capacity
of each and all of us to
govern ourselves ...
according to the Ten
Commandments of God.
Every individual and every
business and institution created
by voluntary associations of
individuals is morally obligated
to be well-governed, and
to respect the rights of others
to life, liberty,
and property.
"Self-government"
creates a society of
"Liberty and Justice for
all."
What
is "THE
Government?"
"Self-government"
-- following the commandments of
God -- is what it means to be
human.
But "the
government" ("the
State") claims the right to
seize the property of others by
force, have those
who resist beaten
and raped, and kill
all those who get in the way.
"Self-government" is virtue.
"The
government" is violence.
George Washington is reported
to have said,
Government is not reason,
it is not eloquence it
is force.
Like fire it is a dangerous
servant and a fearful master.
. . .
It is for this reason that
libertarians do not trust
"the government." They
are often portrayed as being
"anti-government."
But it is this "anti-government"
attitude that made America the
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The Myth of
"Representation"
The idea of "the Consent
of the Governed" was derived
from the Bible. But is it
really Biblical?
One of the rallying cries in
the American Revolution was
"No Taxation without
Representation."
"Representation" in
our day means those who pay no
taxes can elect politicians to
tax the rich and give to those
who aren't.
"Representation" in
our day means we can elect
politicians to kill a million
muslims to keep our gas prices
down.
Where in the Bible does God
give permission for one group of
people to initiate force against
another group and to confiscate
money by force from a third
group to fund the acts of
vengeance and violence?
"Representative
Government" is not a
Biblical substitute for
"self government."
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Thing
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The Three Most Hated Words in Politics Today
and why you must embrace them
- Theocracy
- Pacifism
- Anarchism
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Most Hated Word #1 - THEOCRACY!
Literally, "God rules."
The First Huge Mistake made by America's Founding Fathers
was the concept of "rights."
We saw that the proper approach was to ground life,
liberty and property (or the "pursuit of
happiness") in our social duties not to kill,
steal, kidnap, bear false witness, etc.
Why is it I have a duty not to kill you? Where does this
duty come from? There are many
theories in the universities, but none stand up to
examination or can be lived out consistently in practice.
The best protection for "human rights" is a strong
sense of duty to God. America's Founding
Fathers were unanimous in the conviction that a nation
cannot remain free if it ignores its duties toward God.
These duties are spelled out in the Declaration of
Independence: "The
Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." That linked
webpage shows pretty conclusively that America's Founders
understood that phrase to refer to the Bible.
We want our nation to be "under
God," not a government that thinks it is
God.
America used to be a nation "under God."
That's why America has always been a Christian Theocracy.
Everybody at the ACLU and every anti-theocracy action
group on the Left agrees that New England was Theocratic
from the early 1600's and for a few generations thereafter.
If you try to get the Shorter Catechism taught in public
schools, someone will accuse you of trying to "impose a
theocracy," even though the Catechism was in every
classroom in every colony in America in 1776.
Before the Declaration of Independence was signed, every
one of the 13 colonies was a Christian Theocracy.
Did the Declaration of Independence change this? Did the
Declaration secularize America?
Of course not. If you try to get the Declaration of
Independence taught as truth in public secular schools
today, you will be accused of "trying to impose a
theocracy." The Declaration of Independence from
Britain is also a Declaration of Dependence on God.
A "theocracy" is where God rules. George
Washington described God as "the
ruler of nations." Notably, nations that are called
"Christian Nations." England was one of those
"Christian nations." So was America.
The Constitution did not secularize the 13 Theocracies.
They wouldn't have ratified the Constitution if they had
known or suspected that it would do to America what has been
done to America in the name of the Constitution. Nobody
treated the Constitution as a document that secularized the
13 Theocracies. Read about their actions here.
See the links in the box at right.
America was a Christian Theocracy from 1600 to 1800 and
beyond. In 1892 the Supreme Court of the United States still
declared
that America was a Christian nation.
A Christian Theocracy is not the same thing as a Muslim
Theocracy. A Theocracy led by the Prince of Peace is
different from a theocracy led by a god of war. A Christian
Theocracy is a "Vine &
Fig Tree" society where Christ is King
in heaven. No state-church. No church-state. No
state-priests. No church-police.
We're going to read about this during the next 365 days. Details
here.
On the day after the Constitution went into effect in
March of 1789, America and each one of the 13 united States
was a
Christian Theocracy.
As a militant non-violent Peacemaker, you are going to
join other extraordinary Americans in undertaking the task
of abolishing the U.S. government and making America a
Christian Theocracy again.
America's Founders agreed that our nation must be "under
God" -- the true God, not Osama bin Ladin's God --
and thus a Christian Theocracy, governed by the true
religion.
From a Christian perspective, two things characterize
pure religion. They can be summed up in the words of the
Apostle James:
Pure
religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and
to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
James 1:27
This is why voluntary
charities were everywhere in early America, and why welfare
has now been nationalized by the State.
Go to the second of the Three
Most Hated Words in Politics
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Ozarks
Virtual Town Hall
- May 24th,
2008: "Memorial
Day"
- May 17th,
2008: "60th
Anniversary of the State of
Israel"
- May 10th,
2008: "Mother's
Day"
It's
a war between mothers and
"archists"
- April 12th,
2008: Assessing
"The Surge" in Iraq
- April 5th,
2008: Expanding
the Entangling NATO Alliance
- March 16,
2008: St.
Patrick and U.S. Foreign
Policy
Click
here for notes and
resources
- March 8th,
2008: Government
Torture of Terrorist Suspects
- February 23,
2008: The
Protect Telecommunications
Companies Act
- February 16,
2008: The
Protect America Act
- January 12,
2008: The
President's Plan for Israel
- January 5,
2008: The
President's Entangling
Alliances in the Mideast
- December 15,
2007: Defense
Appropriations
- November 10,
2007: "Veterans
Day"
September
15, 2007: General
Petraeus Reports on Iraq
- September 8,
2007: Iraq:
From "Dark Ideology"
to "Normal Life."
August
25, 2007: A
"Safer and More Normal
Life" in Iraq
July
28, 2007: Expanding
Powers of Government
Surveillance
- July 21,
2007: Intelligence
Estimate on the Terrorist
Threat
- July 14,
2007: Progress
in Iraq?
- May 26, 2007:
Memorial
Day
- May 5, 2007: The
Funding of the War in Iraq
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Most Hated Word #2: Pacifism
The Second Huge Mistake made by the Founders was to take
up arms against the Empire in a violent revolution.
If you're not allowed to resist an Empire, you're not
allowed to resist lesser enemies. In the Sermon on the
Mount, Jesus commanded, "Resist not evil." He also
said "Blessed
are the Peacemakers."
Pacifism is clearly at the heart of being a Christian
Peacemaker.
Pacifism is a critical issue in our
day.
"Pacifists" are often criticized for being
willing to stand by and do nothing while their wife or
daughter is raped.
This is slanderous, a violation of the Ninth
Commandment.
Pacifists continually meet objections like those of Samuel
Bacchiocchi, who said:
It would be morally irresponsible to turn over one's
wife to a rapist just to "keep peace."
This is a "straw man." Such critics cannot name
a single pacifist who would do nothing to try to prevent or
stop a rape. I've never met a pacifist (and I've met
hundreds and lived with several) who would say to a rapist,
"Here she is. Go for it. And peace to you." A
pacifist believes in the existence of evil, and believes violence
is evil. A pacifist opposes violence because violence is
evil, and a pacifist wants to eliminate or prevent evil. A
pacifist would take prudent steps to stop evil, avoid evil,
catch evil off guard, and evangelize evil, but would not --
as many non-pacifists seem to advocate -- start out
immediately with lethal force. Many 2nd Amendment zealots
would pull out their gun at the drop of the hat. At least
that's the way they talk. Probably they are a bit more
rational. Like Bacchiocchi.
Here's a simple question that will
prove you are a pacifist.
Imagine you are "Star Trek" Captain Kirk of the
U.S.S. Enterprise. You are walking down the street of a
planet in the Deltoid Galaxy with one of your never-ending
stream of beautiful women at your arm, when a large burly
alien with the tattoo "I AM A RAPIST"
across his forehead jumps out from a dark alley, grabs your
female companion and says "I'm going to rape this
woman!" You pull out your Phazer
gun and . . . here's the question:
Do you set the Phazer to "stun" and quickly
put the rapist to sleep and call the proper authorities,
or do you set your Phazer to "maximum molecular
disruption" and utterly obliterate the rapist, ending
his life?
When given such a choice, only a sociopath would choose
annihilation or lethal force. Everyone else is a
"pacifist." It's that simple.
What happens if you're consistent with this innate,
conscientious pacifism?
Answer: you will begin to change the world.
In many ways the most violent world in recorded history.
Christ is the Prince of Peace. His vassal-subjects must
be committed to Peace. The Prince of Peace commanded us to
love our enemies. True Christians are willing to follow
Christ to the cross (Matthew 16:25; 1 Peter 2:21).
But the religion of Secular Humanism (America's
State religion) teaches vengeance.
Modern Man believes it's better to make someone else die for
you than to give your life for another. Entire populations
are organized on the principle of institutionalized
vengeance.
Most people don't want to be called a
"pacifist," but more and more people are adopting
a social philosophy which is very close: the "Non-Aggression
Principle" or "Zero-Aggression
Principle."
This principle is at the heart of modern defenses of capitalism.
"Capitalism" means many things to many people,
especially those who oppose it. Most mainstream voices, even
"conservative" voices (e.g., Fox News) would not
call themselves defenders of "capitalism," much
less "laissez-faire capitalism." Most of those who
openly call themselves defenders of "capitalism"
rely on the Non-Aggression Principle.
The most consistent adherents of the Zero-Aggression
Principle call themselves "anarcho-capitalists."
More about both Capitalism and Anarchism
below.
If Obama asked for your guns, would you
give them to him?
"I
Would Give Obama My Guns If He Asks"
Continue to the
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Most Hated Word #3: Anarchism
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The Third Big Mistake made by America's
Founders was to reinstate a government when they had just
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- If they were logically consistent with
their ideals, America's Founding Fathers would not have
replaced the government they abolished with another.
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- Tragically, America's Founders were men of their age,
products of their times, and they labored under the
mistaken belief that God
commands men to form civil governments.
This was the third huge mistake they made.
- The time has come to bury this belief.
- It's time to put the Bible ahead of human traditions.
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- The government America's Founders created turned out
to be more tyrannical than the government they
abolished.
- They sold the Constitution to America as a document of
"enumerated
powers," checks and balances, separation
of powers,
and popular representation that would
- prevent another tyranny
from arising.
Or so they said.
- Their Constitution failed miserably.
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- Every Single person who signed the Constitution
- in a convention presided over by George Washington
- was concerned about tyranny,
- and worked diligently to prevent it.
- But they would all admit
- that today's government is
- a greater tyranny
- than the one they abolished,
- and the Constitution is a complete
failure
- as a document intended to protect our so-called
"rights."
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- The tax on tea in 1775 was three pence per pound.
- The tax on gas today is ten times greater.
- The total
tax burden today is 20
times greater than all the taxes imposed on
the colonies by Britain combined.
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- And the British government never dreamed
- of using the tax revenue they collected to
- fund abortions,
- or pull copies of the
Ten Commandments
- off classroom walls
or Courthouse
plazas.
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- Instead of declaring that we had a "right"
to
- "No Taxation without Representation,"
- We should have said,
- politicians
have a duty to God
not to steal.
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- The British Empire was not as atheistic or
totalitarian as our government is today.
- Washington and the Founders would be horrified at our tolerance
for atheistic tyranny.
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- Once you admit that some men have the
right
- to rule over others, on what basis do
you stop them
- from "going too far?"
- This question has never been successfully answered
in the history of political science.
- It certainly hasn't been answered in America.
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What about Romans 13?
We'll
cover that.
Believe
me; we'll cover that.
See
also here.
The
common understanding of Romans 13
and the Biblical doctrine of the
State is more of a bumper sticker
or sound-bite than a complete
theory of the State that takes
into account the entire Bible.
This
is not a difficult or complex
issue. It simply requires a degree
of boldness to say "yes"
to the Bible and to reject the
theories of human institutions.
You
will have many questions and
objections to these ideas. If you
have the courage to wrestle with
the ideas with an open mind, then
iron will sharpen iron.
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Lysander
Spooner was right:
the Constitution "has
either authorized such a
government as we have had, or has
been powerless to prevent
it."
The parchment barrier
against power (James Madisons
term for the Bill
of Rights) wasnt much of a
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An-archism = Opposition to Archism
Archism =
Institutionalized Vengeance/Violence
If you oppose violence, then you reject the concept of
imposing your will on other people by initiating force
against them or threatening them with violence.
But that's what "the State" is. The whole idea
of "the State" is to use force to accomplish some
personal or social goal, or eliminate some personal or
social obstacle.
A logically consistent pacifist is an anarchist.
Jesus was a pacifist, therefore He was an anarchist.
We were taught in our government school civics class that
"anarchists" are bad. The dictionary tells us that
the word comes from the Greek words a-
meaning "not" and "archist."
But we were never told what an "archist"
is.
It turns out that "an-archists" are good
people. It is "archists"
who are bad.
When most people hear the word "anarchist" they
think of a bomb-throwing assassin who doesn't believe in
private property. But in fact, during the 20th century,
"archists" --
the government opponents of "anarchism" -- dropped
more bombs and confiscated more private property in a single
day than so-called "anarchists" did in an entire
year.
But mostly, when people hear the word
"anarchist" they think of someone who is against
"the government."
- I believe in a well-governed, orderly society.
So why a defense of "anarchism?"
Because the greatest threat to a well-governed, orderly
society, is the institution that drops the most bombs,
assassinates the most people, and confiscates the most
private property.
That dangerous force is none other than "the
government."
Mark 10:42-45
The classic passage in which Jesus forbids
us to be "archists"
(and thereby commands us to be "anarchists") is
Mark 10:42-45
But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them,
"You know that those who are considered rulers
over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones
exercise authority over them. {43} Yet it shall not
be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among
you shall be your servant. {44} And whoever of you desires
to be first shall be slave of all. {45} "For even the
Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to
give His life a ransom for many."
The word translated "rulers"
comes from the Greek word from which we derive our word
"anarchist." Jesus clearly says His followers are not
to be "archists,"
and that means we are to be "an-archists." In
fact, God hates archists.
Archists attempt to
convince us that when things don't go the way we would like
them to go, we can resort to violence
to change matters. Even if nothing will be changed by
violence, that's OK, because making them suffer who made us
suffer is called "justice." Archists
thus believe in institutionalized vengeance.
Aren't "Anarchists" Lawless and
Disorderly?
No. Archists are.
When the mainstream media uses the word
"anarchist," they don't mean someone who opposes
the vengeance, violence, and coercion of
"archism." They mean someone who engages in riots,
assassinations, destruction of private property, and
creation of chaos and disorder.
But it is archists,
not anarchists, who do the most assassinating, destruction
of property, and creation of disorder. The picture of riots,
overturning cars, bricks through windows, are acts of little
wanna-be archists, who
oppose one violent archist
order only because they themselves want to set up a new archist
order, with them in charge, with them disbursing violence,
with them ordering the troops to arrest, imprison and
execute the "capitalist pigs."
What the mainstream media calls "anarchy" is
really "multi-archy"
or "poly-archy."
It is certainly not the absence of archist
coercion and violence.
Archists are in
rebellion against the True Source of Law and Order, Jesus
Christ, the Prince of Peace. The history of the world and
especially the history of America makes clear this
correlation:
More "government" = more
disorder and lawlessness
"Anarchists"
- believe that no person or group of people should
"rule" over other people
- believe that no one has the right to initiate force
against others
- believe that no person or group of people has a right
to steal, kidnap or kill.
"Archists"
- believe they have the right to "rule" over
others
- believe they have the right to initiate force against
others
- believe they have the right to steal
("tax"), kidnap ("conscript") and
kill ("smart bomb")
(or to "vote" for someone to do it for them).
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A true Christian says,
"I am Not an ARCHIST"
How
To Become a Christian Anarchist.
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Embrace Those Three Hated Words
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In order to become a Peacemaker and receive
the blessings of Christ, you must be willing to take the
barbs of those who believe in war and conflict. You will be
called a "wimp!" You will be told you need to
"stand up for your rights!" Some people just throw
out insults at you to justify their refusal to listen, to
forgive, to make sacrifices -- in short, their refusal to
follow the Prince
of Peace.
If they absolutely refuse to listen to reason, and simply
want to insult you, you can only pray that God will soften
their hearts so you can talk on another day.
But if a person insults you as being
"unrealistic," "impractical," or
"utopian," and still seems willing to talk to you
and listen to your peacemaking advice, you need to be
prepared to overcome their objections.
The Samuel Adams Coaching
Program will equip you.
But you yourself may have to open your mind to ideas
you've been trained to despise.
As Americans -- as products of violent revolution, arms
exporting, and consumer selfishness -- we have been trained
to shut-off and turn-off ideas which conflict with national
ideology.
Here are the three issues which you must wrestle with in
order to be a Peacemaker.
- Pacifism
vs. Revolution
- Anarchism
vs. "Representative" Regulation and
Redistribution
- Theocracy
vs. Rights
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The Three Things You Need to Become Extraordinary
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Content/Curriculum
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Coaching
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The Importance of Ideas
- The human beings that settled the New World
- were the same species of humans that remained in
Europe.
- But America became extraordinary,
while Europe stagnated under monarchy and socialism.
- The difference was ideas.
- Ideas have consequences.
These same ideas can have consequences in your life.
The Samuel Adams
Coaching Program
Here's
a description of our program, along with our continuing
attempt to persuade you to sign up.
Samuel Adams Coaching
is a distance-learning program that helps you learn these
ideas and develop the skills to put them into effect and
promote them in our society.
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The Samuel
Adams Coaching
Program gives participants:
- a confident understanding of Biblical Christianity.
- conversational tools for engaging friends, co-workers,
and complete strangers about Christian Reconstruction in
a winsome and loving way.
- a community of like-minded believers for learning,
loving and living out faith together.
- a road map for living out an authentic faith in a
relativistic, postmodern world.
- opportunities to influence and transform the State,
the Church, communities, and culture.
The goal of our program is not to dump a bunch of
intellectual content into someones brain so they can then
spew it back out to others and sound really smart. Our aim
is to see people transformed from the inside out, to so
inculcate them in biblical truth, and in how and why those
truths matter in our personal lives and in our public
institutions, that it seeps into their mind, heart, and soul
and transforms the way they think, feel, and behave. This is
the only foundation upon which effective peacemaking can
occur.
The program centers around the daily reading of the five
most important works in the history of America and Western
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- The Bible
- The Catechisms and Confession of the Westminster
Assembly (1644-48)
- Capitalism and An Inquiry
into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
- U.S. Supreme Court authorities proving The Myth
of the Separation of Church and
State
- The Basis for Optimism
concerning the possibility of future progress and peace
on earth.
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- Our First Assigned Text:
The most important work in the history of America and
Western Civilization, obviously, is the Bible.
- George Washington read the Bible an hour every
morning.
- Then
another hour in the evening.
- America's Founding Fathers knew it well.
- It takes 11 minutes a day to read the Bible
from cover to cover in one year.
- Maybe you've already read the Bible --
- but you
read it as a religious book.
- A "devotional" book.
- A book to "inspire" you.
- A book to help your "self-esteem."
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- We're going to read the Bible as
- marching
orders from General Headquarters.
- We're going to read the Bible as a
- textbook
in political science and economics.
- For example,
- We're going to pay close attention to
- what the Bible says about
- inflation
and fractional
reserve banking,
- which led the Framers of the Constitution to say
- "No state shall make anything but gold or silver
a tender in payment in of debts."
- Americans in 1776 knew what the Bible said about
economics, law, political science, and more.
- Americans today do not.
Christianity is not just religious devotionals.
Christianity is a worldview
that affects every area of life.
- To the left and the right you can see a list of
contemporary issues which the Bible addresses directly
and clearly. During the next 365 days, you'll see these
issues in the Bible like America's Founding Fathers did,
and like you've never seen them before.
In addition, you're going to see the story
of the Bible like you've never seen it before. Many
Christians today believe the story of the Bible goes
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- God created planet earth;
- God put man on earth to be a good steward;
- Satan tempted man;
- Man rebelled against God, choosing to be his
own god instead,
- Satan now controls the world.
- Since Satan and man are not playing God's game
by God's rules, God is soon going to take his
cosmic football and go home.
In other words, Satan wins.
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Pretty dismal story, isn't it?
Sure, God sent His Son, who died on the cross, so that
some of the players can be forgiven for their rebellion and
go home with God, but God's original purposes for man and
the creation were thwarted by Satan, the ultimate victor.
The Bible doesn't teach this.
The Bible says our purpose as human beings is to turn a
fallen wilderness into a Garden-City. The New Jerusalem is
the "Vine & Fig Tree"
society.
Hundreds of years before Christ, the
prophet Daniel spoke of the first Christmas, the birth
of the Messiah in the days of the Roman Empire. That
barbaric, debauched empire was destroyed, and the Kingdom of
Christ began growing like a mustard tree, like leaven, like
a field (Matthew 13). The Emperor Justinian began
Christianizing the Eastern Roman Empire, and in the West
kings like Alfred and Ethelbert made the 10 Commandments the
basis of new legal systems. The "Common Law"
began, with a
Christian foundation, and eventually found its way into
the Constitution of the United States, "a
Christian nation." Though there have been ups and
downs, the progress of Christianity has been undeniable --
at least to those who have been taught the facts of history.
Most Americans in the 21st century have not.
If you enroll in the Samuel
Adams Coaching
Program, you will learn the story of the "Vine
& Fig Tree." You will learn that the
Bible says the purpose of the first Christmas was that
"the knowledge of the Lord should cover the earth as
the waters cover the sea." (Isaiah
11:9; Habakkuk
2:14). This has been going on for 2,000 years now. This
is a wonderful story that isn't being told.
Some people sincerely believe that the Bible says that
everything is going to get worse and worse until God finally
destroys everything and then starts over. (Why He would want
to go through failure again is not disclosed.)
You will read a different story in the Bible when you
enroll in the Samuel Adams
Coaching Program, and
have a coach pointing out things in the Bible that you may
have missed.
Perhaps you're reluctant to pay your tuition for a class
that teaches something very different from what you've
always heard. So we'll give you the entire year-long
curriculum. We want to make it clear that simply reading the
class outline in a week, or even a month, will not give you
the same result as you will have if you enroll in the Samuel
Adams Coaching
Program and study a little bit each day, think about it,
study more the next day, pray about it, and take an entire
year to complete your reading of the Vine
& Fig Tree story. It just won't be the
same.
But you wouldn't be a good shopper if you bought a
product without knowing what it delivered. So if you're
doubtful about our agenda, here are two ways to survey the
story of the Bible that you'll learn in the year-long Samuel
Adams Coaching
Program.
The first way is a 12-day study entitled "The 12
Days of Liberty." It's modeled after the "12 Days
of Christmas," which take place from December 25 to
January 6. You've never heard the Christmas message like
this:
This study is obviously not a review of the entire Bible,
though many other parts of the Bible are reviewed besides
the Christmas narratives in the Gospels.
Here, then, is a review of the entire Bible. Again, it is
no substitute for the Berean
model of searching the Scriptures daily.
And reading them all in an afternoon is not the same as
reading one a day and thinking about it prayerfully over a
period of time. But just so you can see an example of the worldview
of the Samuel Adams Coaching
Program, here are 95 Bible Studies, patterned loosely after
Martin Luther's "95 Theses," somewhat-humorously
called The 95 Days of Christmas:
- Welcome to The 95 Days of
Christmas | View
- The Importance of Luther's 95 Theses | View
- The Origin of These 95 Theses | View
- Introduction: Taking the Bible Seriously | View
- Thesis 1: Christ the Word | View
- Thesis 2: Christ the Creator | View
- Thesis 3: Creation, not Evolution | View
- Thesis 4: Omniscience, Predestination, and Providence
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- Thesis 5: Self-Evident Truths | View
- A. Vine & Fig Tree
BEFORE THE FALL |
View
- Thesis 6: The Biological Basis of Patriarchy | View
- Thesis 7: The Dominion Mandate | View
- Thesis 8: Patriarchy and the Extended Family | View
- Thesis 9: Vine &
Fig Tree and the Sanctions of the
Covenant | View
- Thesis 10: The Priority of Agrarianism | View
- Thesis 11: Vine &
Fig Tree and the Mountain | View
- B. Vine & Fig Tree
BEFORE THE FLOOD | View
- Thesis 12: The Fall Of The Angels | View
- Thesis 13: The Fall of Man | View
- Thesis 14: The Purpose of Cains Suspended
Sentence | View
- Thesis 15: Cains City: The Autonomy of the State | View
- Thesis 16: The Demonic Roots of Violent Tyranny | View
- C. Vine & Fig Tree
BEFORE SINAI | View
- Thesis 17: The Post-Flood Absence of The Institutional
Church | View
- Thesis 18: The Patriarchal Power Of Capital
Punishment | View
- Thesis 19: Nimrod: The First Politician (Post-Flood) |
View
- Thesis 20: Vine &
Fig Tree vs. Political Slavery | View
- Thesis 21: Demonic Activity At Babel | View
- Thesis 22: The Division of The Nations | View
- Thesis 23: Evangelism In The Old Covenant | View
- Thesis 24: Vine &
Fig Tree, National Defense, And
Military Socialism | View
- Thesis 25: Vine &
Fig Tree and Sacraments:
Circumcision | View
- Thesis 27: Vine &
Fig Tree, Precious Metals, and Money |
View
- Thesis 26: The Myth of The Separation Of Church And
State | View
- Thesis 28: Salvation is Political | View
- D. Vine & Fig Tree
UNDER MOSES | View
- Thesis 29: Vine &
Fig Tree and Resistance to Tyranny in
the Early Days of the Old Testament | View
- Thesis 30: As With All Angelic Activity, No State
Action Is Coincidental or Random | View
- Thesis 31: Ceremony, Ritual, Liturgy, And The Pedagogical
Law | View
- Thesis 32: Vine &
Fig Tree and Sacraments:
Passover | View
- Thesis 33: Patriarchs And Elders | View
- Thesis 34: The Need for a Pedagogical Legal Structure
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- Thesis 35: Angels And The Pedagogical Legal Structure
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- Thesis 36: The Promised Land | View
- Thesis 37: The Temporary Character of The First Church
Officers | View
- Thesis 38: Vine &
Fig Tree and the Temple |
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- Thesis 39: Patriarchy and Education | View
- Thesis 40: Vine &
Fig Tree and Oaths | View
- E. Vine & Fig Tree
AND THE RISE OF THE
STATE | View
- Thesis 41: The Character of gods | View
- Thesis 42: National Security Without a State | View
- Thesis 43: The Prohibition of Monarchism | View
- Thesis 44: The State as the Answer to the Prayers of
Rebels | View
- Thesis 45: The Inferiority of Old Covenant Typological
Mediators | View
- F. Vine & Fig Tree
AND PROVIDENCE :
THE STATE | View
- Thesis 46: Romans 8:28 and The State | View
- Thesis 47: Gods Sovereign Ordering of Every State |
View
- Thesis 48: The State Serves God by Sinning | View
- Thesis 49: The State As Sanctified Servant/Deacon/Minister
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- Thesis 50: The State Does Not Serve God
Self-Consciously | View
- Thesis 51: Only One King Self-Consciously Serves God |
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- Thesis 52: Judgment of the State in Heaven and Earth |
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- Thesis 53: Moloch-Worship and the Nature of Idols | View
- Thesis 54: War, Capital Punishment, and The Sword
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- Thesis 55: The Throne of David | View
- G. Vine & Fig Tree
AND THE MESSIAH
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- Thesis 56: Statism At The Time Of Christ | View
- Thesis 57: Kingship, Citizenship, and The Gospel | View
- Thesis 58: The Civil Authority of The Pastor: Christ
The Shepherd | View
- Thesis 59: Jewish Opposition To The Kingdom | View
- Thesis 60: Christs Binding of Satan | View
- Thesis 61: True Power vs. Political Power | View
- Thesis 62: Agrarianism As Environmentalism | View
- Thesis 63: Christs Ascension to the Throne of David
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- Thesis 64: The Camaraderie of Church And State |
View
- Thesis 65: Fox News and the Coming of the Kingdom | View
- Thesis 66: The Anointed King vs. Political Kings | View
- Thesis 67: Jesus The Nazarene | View
- H. Vine & Fig Tree
AND THE EARLY HOME-CHURCHES
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- Thesis 68: Extremism Vs. Neutrality | View
- Thesis 69: Sons of God and Pedagogues | View
- Thesis 70: Judgment and the Church-Courts of Christ | View
- Thesis 71: The Apostolic Church and the Spread of
Power | View
- Thesis 72: Vine &
Fig Tree and the House-Church | View
- Thesis 73: Vine &
Fig Tree and the Sacraments:
Baptism | View
- Thesis 74: Vine &
Fig Tree and the Sacraments: The
Lords Supper | View
- Thesis 75: Self-Ordination | View
- Thesis 76: Salt and Statism | View
- Thesis 77: Political Authority and Kingdom Citizenship
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- Thesis 78: Vine &
Fig Tree and Resistance to Tyranny in
the Last Days of the Old Covenant | View
- Thesis 79: Taxation, Kingdom Citizenship, and
Overcoming Through Suffering | View
- Thesis 80: Violence | View
- Thesis 81: Vengeance | View
- Thesis 82: Creationist Anarcho-Socialism and Darwinian
Archo-Socialism | View
- Thesis 83: Pedagogy and The Powers | View
- Thesis 84: The End of Archists:
The Pedagogues Judged by the Church | View
- Thesis 85: The Last Days of the Old Covenant | View
- I. Vine & Fig Tree
IN THE MILLENNIUM
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- Thesis 86: The Millennium | View
- Thesis 87: Ruling with Christ | View
- Thesis 88: Salvation as Light and Social Healing | View
- Thesis 89: Edenic Restoration | View
- Thesis 90: The New Heavens and New Earth | View
- Thesis 91: The Unconverted In the Millennium | View
- Thesis 92: The Last Acts of Earthly Archists
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- Thesis 93: The City of God | View
You need to go through the entire year-long program to
appreciate these studies. You do yourself a disservice if
you try to judge any one of the studies without studying the
entire series. Real change will take place when you work
through the entire Bible systematically, daily,
prayerfully, thoughtfully, over the course of a year.
The change in your thinking -- the change in your worldview
-- will not come about because we forced you or tricked you.
You will experience those "Aha!' moments when the
lightbulb goes on and you're never able to look at the Bible
the same way again.
The significance of most of these studies will become
clearer after you become acquainted with the four other
works that we'll be covering in the Samuel
Adams Coaching
Program.
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Read
through the Bible in one year
with a mentor who can help you see
that Peace is Possible
Why Read the Bible?
Myth:
The Old Testament
advocates war, slavery, genocide, and vengeful
retaliation. |
Myth:
The Teachings of Jesus
are impractical, utopian, unrealistic, and should be
relegated to the inner religious meditations of a Mother
Theresa, but should be kept away from public policy,
especially foreign affairs and military strategy. |
Both sides of
this coin are wrong.
We need to examine these myths. |
Jesus endorsed
the Old Testament, which says that war
is evil. The prophets spoke of a day when we would beat
our swords into
plowshares and everyman would dwell securely under his
own Vine & Fig Tree -- not because his property was
being taken from him to fund the "military-industrial
complex," (which "keeps us all safe,"), but
because nobody was training for war any more. |
Western
Civilization is Christianized
Civilization. If we were to follow the teachings of
Jesus in Washington D.C., we would experience security,
peace, and economic prosperity. No war that the U.S. federal
government has waged has ever made things better than they
would have been without military intervention. |
- How did the
Civil War make things better? It gave us
complete domination by the federal
government.
- What future was improved for Poland and
Czechoslovakia by World
War II? They were rescued from Hitler
and turned over to Stalin.
- How did U.S. war help the people of Iraq?
A westernized, secular nation was converted
into an Islamic Theocracy that leans toward
Iran. Hundreds of thousands of Christians
were killed or made homeless. Infrastructure
was destroyed.
- Which improvements in the human condition
have ever been won by war?
- We're told that if we follow the
"pacifist" ethics of Jesus and
beat our "swords
into plowshares," we'll end up
living in a "warlord society" and
millions of people will die.
In the 20th century, the world's war-making
powers killed hundreds of millions
of human beings.
- They killed 250
million of their own citizens.
- They killed 250 million human beings
from other nations in senseless wars.
- How could it possibly be worse if the
human race denounced the entire idea of archism?
- Archists
not only murdered a half a billion
people, they enslaved more than a
billion, and confiscated trillions of
dollars of private property. This is
"rational,"
"sensible,"
"practical,"
"realistic" and "real
world," and the Bible is not???
- Insanity.
- Would
Jesus Celebrate Memorial Day?
- We already live in a
corporate-warlord society. The United States
is the largest arms dealer in a world of archist
violence.
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We should take
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- Each day as we read the Bible we're going to focus on
things that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and
Samuel Adams focused on in their studies: virtue,
morality and character.
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- Not the kind of character that makes a person a prissy
priest or clergyman.
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- But the kind of character than can create
entrepreneurs, CEOs, and heroes; build businesses and
hospitals.
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- We'll study the character traits you see at left, and
we will begin developing them into habits in our own
lives.
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- We'll discover a program to develop extraordinary
habits in the next great work
we're going to read.
Thomas Jefferson, despite his criticisms of clergy and
ecclesiastical corruption, would want to be remembered as
one who lived and encouraged a life of virtue and morality.
He would not take credit for the army of people who champion
"separation of church and state" as a cloak for
selfish immorality and a lack of virtue.
The practice of morality being necessary for the
well-being of society, He has taken care to impress its
precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be
effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in
the obligation of the moral precepts of Jesus, and nowhere
will they be found delivered in greater purity than in his
discourses.
TJ to James Fishback, Sept 27, 1809,
Bergh 12:315. (1809.)
Jefferson had written in 1819, "I never go to bed
without an hour or half an hour's reading of something
moral, whereon to ruminate in the intervals of sleep"
-- to which Randall adds, "The book oftenest chosen .
. . was a collection of extracts from the Bible."
Henry Wilder Foote,
"Introduction," The Jefferson Bible, 23
He was passionately devoted to the gospel of Jesus,
which stirred him to the depths of his being and was the
most powerful motive force in his life.
Donald S. Harrington, "Foreword,"
The Jefferson Bible, 11
Speaking of "the widespread denunciation of him by
his political opponents as an anti-Christian infidel or
atheist," Foote observes,
[I]t is one of the minor ironies of history that such
slanders should have been so generally and so long
believed about the man whose knowledge of and admiration
for the teachings of Jesus have never been equaled by any
other President.
Henry Wilder Foote,
"Introduction," The Jefferson Bible, 18
It was not, however, to be understood that instruction
in religious opinion and duties was meant to be precluded
by the public authorities as indifferent to the interests
of society. On the contrary, the relations which exist
between man and his Maker and the duties resulting from
those relations are the most interesting and important to
every human being and the most incumbent on his study and
investigation.
-- TJ, Report to the Visitors [school
boards] Oct 7, 1822
America's Founders were agreed that religion and morality
were an essential part of a public school education.
This is because good character, which is the embodiment
of religion and morality, was essential to liberty and a
free Republic. If everyone thinks he is his own god, and can
steal, enslave, or kill anyone who stands in his way, you
cannot have ordered liberty. People of bad character will
clamor for a strong government to take vengeance against
other people of bad character. Soon you have totalitarianism
and lawlessness.
Read the Founders on the connection between morality and
liberty here.
Continue to Westminster
Standards
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Introduction
- Welcome
to the Westminster Standards
- The
Hard Sell
Day
1: Reformation Day and The Chief End of
Man
Day
2: The Holy Scripture, part 1
Day
3: The Holy Scripture, part 2
Day
4: The Holy Scripture, part 3
Day
5: What is God? part 1
Day
6: What is God? part 2
Day
7: What is God? part 3
Day
8: What is God? part 4 - The Trinity
Day
9: Of God's Eternal Decree, part 1
Day
10: Of God's Eternal Decree, part 2
Day
11: Of God's Eternal Decree, part 3
Day
12: Of Creation
Day
13: Of Providence, part 1
Day
14: Of Providence, part 2
Day
15: Of Providence, part 3
Day
16: Of Providence, part 4
Day
17: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the
Punishment thereof, part 1
Day
18: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the
Punishment thereof, part 2
Day
19: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the
Punishment thereof, part 3
Day
20: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the
Punishment thereof, part 4
Day
21: Of God's Covenant with Man, part 1
Day
22: Of God's Covenant with Man, part 2
Day
23: Of God's Covenant with Man, part 3
Day
24: Of God's Covenant with Man, part 4
Day
25: Of Christ the Mediator, part 1
Day
26: Of Christ the Mediator, part 2
Day
27: Of Christ the Mediator, part 3
Day
28: Of Christ the Mediator, part 4
Day
29: Of Christ the Mediator, part 5
Day
30: Of Christ the Mediator, part 6
Day
31: Of Christ the Mediator, part 7
Day
32: Of Christ the Mediator, part 8
Day
33: Of Christ the Mediator, part 9
Day
34: Of Christ the Mediator, part 10
Day
35: Of Christ the Mediator, part 11
Day
36: Of Free Will, part 1
Day
37: Of Free Will, part 2
Day
38: Of Effectual Calling, part 1
Day
39: Of Effectual Calling, part 2
Day
40: Of Effectual Calling, part 3
Day
41: Of Effectual Calling, part 4
Day
42: Of Effectual Calling, part 5
Day
43: Of Justification, part 1
Day
44: Of Justification, part 2
Day
45: Of Justification, part 3
Day
46: Of Justification, part 4
Day
47: Of Justification, part 5
Day
48: Of Adoption
Day
49: Of Sanctification, part 1
Day
50: Of Sanctification, part 2
Day
51: Of Sanctification, part 3
Day
52: Of Saving Faith
Day
53: Of Repentance unto Life, part 1
Day
54: Of Repentance unto Life, part 2
Day
55: Of Good Works, part 1
Day
56: Of Good Works, part 2
Day
57: Of the Perseverance of the Saints
Day
58: Of the Assurance of Grace and
Salvation, part 1
Day
59: Of the Assurance of Grace and
Salvation, part 2
Day
60: Of the Law of God, part 1
Day
61: Of the Law of God, part 2
Day
62: Of the Law of God, part 3
Day
63: Of the Law of God, part 4
Day
64: Rules for Interpreting God's
Commandments, part 1
Day
65: Rules for Interpreting God's
Commandments, part 2
Day
66: The Preface to the Ten Commandments
Day
67: Duties Required in the First
Commandment, part 1
Day
68: Duties Required in the First
Commandment, part 2
Day
69: Sins Forbidden in the First
Commandment, part 1
Day
70: Sins Forbidden in the First
Commandment, part 2
Day
71: Duties Required in the Second
Commandment
Day
72: Sins Forbidden in the Second
Commandment, part 1
Day
73: Sins Forbidden in the Second
Commandment, part 2
Day
74: Reasons Annexed to the Second
Commandment
Day
75: Duties Required in the Third
Commandment
Day
76: Sins Forbidden in the Third
Commandment, part 1
Day
77: Sins Forbidden in the Third
Commandment, part 2
Day
78: Reasons Annexed to the Third
Commandment
Day
79: Of Lawful Oaths and Vows, part 1
Day
80: Of Lawful Oaths and Vows, part 2
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- The second-most
popular work in colonial America
(after the Bible)
- was the
Westminster Standards.
This comprised a Confession of Faith, a
Larger Catechism and a Smaller Catechism.
The Smaller Catechism was for children. The
Larger Catechism for teens. Both exceed the depth of most
seminary graduates in the 21st century.
At a time when the total population of
America was only four million people, it is estimated that
some five million copies of the "Westminster Shorter
Catechism" were available in the colonies. Historian
Richard Gardiner writes:
The
Westminster Catechism was not only a central part of the
colonial educational curriculum, learning it was
required by law. Each town employed an officer whose
duty was to visit homes to hear the children recite the
Catechism. The primary schoolbook for children, the New
England Primer, included the Catechism. Daily
recitations of it were required at these schools. Their
curriculum included memorization of the Westminster
Confession and the Westminster Larger Catechism. There
was not a person at Independence Hall in 1776 who had
not been exposed to it, and most of them had it spoon
fed to them before they could walk.
It takes approximately 11 minutes per day to
read through the Bible from cover to cover. It only takes a
couple of minutes a day to read through the Westminster
Catechisms and Confession in a year. They were written
around 1645 and the drafters unequivocally opposed our brand
of political libertarianism. But they believed that God is
God, and denied that the State is God, a necessary first
step on your road to becoming an extraordinary American, an
extraordinary Christian, and an extraordinary human being.
- And from the Westminster Standards we're going to
discover a program that will rapidly and profoundly
change our personal character and habits.
Over the course of 365 days,
you'll begin internalizing Christianity as a worldview.
You will begin applying
Christian principles to every area of your life.
Christianity will no longer be a private belief for you, but
a public matter. You will become your own "City
upon a Hill."
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920), the Prime Minister of the
Netherlands, delivered a series of lectures at the Princeton
Theological Seminary in 1898 under the auspices of the L. P.
Stone Foundation. Kuyper explained how the Christian faith
as set forth in the Westminster Standards related to
Religion, Politics,
Science, and the Arts. Kuyper said,
"In the total expanse of human
life there is not a single square inch of which the
Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, that
is Mine!"
If Christianity is relegated to Sunday school, then
Monday through Friday we can deny justice, infringe on
liberty, and destroy the life, liberty and property of
others. It is because the Westminster Standard viewed life
as a whole, all of it under the jurisdiction of God and His
Laws and morality, that America became prosperous and
admired. Americans Christianized business, science, the
arts, and every area of life. This made America a great
place to live.
- Consider your alternatives:
- An atheistic Soviet Union
- Buddhist Sri Lanka
- Islamic Uzbekistan
- Most people would rather live in America, a Christian
nation.
- Or any nation that is a part of Christian
Civilization.
It was Calvinism
that shaped America.
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81: Religious Worship, part 1
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82: Religious Worship, part 2
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83: Christian Liberty and Liberty of
Conscience, part 1
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84: Christian Liberty and Liberty of
Conscience, part 2
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85: The Word of God in Worship, part 1
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86: The Word of God in Worship, part 2
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87: The Word of God in Worship, part 3
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88: The Word of God in Worship, part 4
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89: Of the Sacraments, part 1
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90: Of the Sacraments, part 2
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91: Of Baptism, part 1
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92: Of Baptism, part 2
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93: Of Baptism, part 3
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94: Of The Lord's Supper, part 1
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95: Of The Lord's Supper, part 2
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96: Of The Lord's Supper, part 3
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97: Of The Lord's Supper, part 4
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98: Of The Lord's Supper, part 5
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99: Of The Lord's Supper, part 6
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100: Of Communion of Saints, part 1
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101: Of Communion of Saints, part 2
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102: The Fourth Commandment, part 1
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103: The Fourth Commandment, part 2
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104: The Fourth Commandment, part 3
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105: The Fourth Commandment, part 4
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106: The Fifth Commandment, part 1
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107: The Fifth Commandment, part 2
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108: The Fifth Commandment, part 3
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109: The Fifth Commandment, part 4
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110: The Fifth Commandment, part 5
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111: The Fifth Commandment, part 6
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112: The Civil Magistrate, part 1
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113: The Civil Magistrate, part 2
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114: The Civil Magistrate, part 3
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115: Of The Church, part 1
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116: Of The Church, part 2
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117: Of Church Censures, part 1
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118: Of Church Censures, part 2
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119: Of Synods and Councils
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120: The Sixth Commandment, part 1
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121: The Sixth Commandment, part 2
- Day
122: The Sixth Commandment, part 3 -
"Capital Punishment"
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123: The Sixth Commandment, part 4 -
"Lawful War" I
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124: The Sixth Commandment, part 5 -
"Lawful War" II
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125: The Sixth Commandment, part 6 -
"Necessary Defense"
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126: The Sixth Commandment, part 7 -
conclusion
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127: The Seventh Commandment, part 1
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128: The Seventh Commandment, part 2
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129: The Seventh Commandment, part 3
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130: The Seventh Commandment, part 4
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131: The Eighth Commandment, part 1
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132: The Eighth Commandment, part 2
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133: The Eighth Commandment, part 3
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134: The Eighth Commandment, part 4
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135: The Ninth Commandment, part 1
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136: The Ninth Commandment, part 2
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137: The Ninth Commandment, part 3
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138: The Ninth Commandment, part 4
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139: The Tenth Commandment
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140: Of Communion of Saints, part 3
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141: Of the State Of Men after Death
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142: The Resurrection of the Dead
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143: Of the Last Judgment, part 1
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144: Of the Last Judgment, part 2
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145: How to Pray, part 1
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146: How to Pray, part 2
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147: How to Pray, part 3
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148: The Lord's Prayer, part 1
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149: The Lord's Prayer, part 2
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150: The Lord's Prayer, part 3 -
"Thy Kingdom Come"
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151: The Lord's Prayer, part 4 -
"Thy Will Be Done"
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152: The Lord's Prayer, part 5 -
"Give Us This Day Our Daily
Bread"
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153: The Lord's Prayer, part 6 -
"Forgive Us Our Debts"
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154: The Lord's Prayer, part 7 -
"Lead us Not into Temptation"
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155: The Lord's Prayer, part 8 -
"For Thine is the Kingdom"
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156: Aggravated Sins, part 1
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157: Aggravated Sins, part 2
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158: Aggravated Sins, part 3
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159: Aggravated Sins, part 4
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160: Aggravated Sins, part 5
Special
Supplements
- "End,"
"Nature," and
"Works"
- The
Depravity of Man
- "Without
Passions"
- Does
God "Repent?"
- Emotions
and God's Law
- The
Enthronement of Christ
- Christ's
Coming to Judge the World
- Westminster
and Marilynne Robinson
- The
Politics of Star-Worship
- What
is "Worship?"
- "The
Day of The Lord"
- The
Fourth Commandment in American History
- The
Five Stages of Deuteronomy 8
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In the 18th century,
America's Founders gave us what they called "an
Experiment in Liberty," and in the 19th century
America became the most prosperous and admired nation in
history. Washington
D.C. abandoned that experiment in the 20th century,
embarking on an
experiment in government central planning.
Everywhere this experiment was tried -- German, Italy, the
Soviet Union -- it left poverty and mass death.
George Washington would see that we need to abolish the
current tyranny, and replace it with nothing but "the
Invisible Hand" of 100% unregulated, Laissez-faire
capitalism.
You're thinking: "Those
greedy capitalists will exploit the poor!"
As if greedy politicians don't.
But your moral
concerns are valid.
That's why George Washington
and America's Founding Fathers believed America had to be a
Christian Theocracy.
That's right. Theocracy. This is
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- The third most
important work in the
- history of America and Western
Civilization
- It is not a single book, but a concept.
- Its a concept that transformed barbaric pagan
Empires
into limited governments and a Land of liberty:
- And yet for all the good it has done the world, the
word is hated even by many Christians.
That word is
Theocracy
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Americans have been trained to react in horror
to the word "Theocracy." This is an especially
devious trick by atheists. A nation "under
God" is a Theocracy, because a nation "under
God" is a nation that acknowledges that God rules,
and "God Rules" is the literal meaning of
"Theocracy." Since we've all been brainwashed to
repel any move toward "Theocracy," we say nothing
when public schools cannot teach children that we are a
nation "under God." That might constitute
"imposing a Theocracy." Can't have that!
America became the most prosperous and admired nation in
history because it was a nation "under
God." In short, America was a Christian Theocracy.
Today the word "theocracy" conjures up images of
Islamic terrorists and mullahs. People think of
"theocracy" as a police state governed by
priests. This is inaccurate. The word
"theocracy" comes from two Greek words, theos,
meaning "God," and a Greek word meaning
"rule." A theocracy where God rules
is a nation "under
God." America has always
been known as "one nation under
God," and therefore America has always been a
Christian Theocracy.
But there are good theocracies and there are bad ones. A
nation can be attempting to be a Christian Theocracy and do
a very poor job of it. We do not believe that a good
Christian Theocracy is a police state. We believe a good
Christian Theocracy is one where all the priests and princes
have resigned and gotten real jobs where they serve
others.
Everything that the ACLU opposes when it speaks of
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[27]
4 Washington
Irving, Life
of George Washington 475
(New York: G. P. Putnam &
Co., 1857); Mrs.
C. M Kirkland, Memoirs
of Washington 438 (New
York: D. Appleton & Company,
1870); Charles
Carleton Coffin, Building
the Nation 26 (New York:
Harper & Brothers
Publishers, 1882); etc.
[28]
1 Richardson,
Messages
and Papers 51-54 (April
30, 1789).
[29]
1 Annals
of Congress
29 (April 30,
1789).
[30]
Acts
Passed at a Congress of the
United States of America Begun
and Held at the City of
New-York, on Wednesday the
Fourth of March, in the Year
1789, 104 (Hartford:
Hudson & Goodwin, 1791)
(August 7, 1789).
[31]
1 Debates
and Proceedings 685 (1st
Cong., 1st Sess.)
(July 21, 1789, passage by the
House), and 1 Debates
and Proceedings 57
(August 4, 1789, passage by the
Senate).
[32]
Constitutions
(1813) 364 ("An Ordinance
of the Territory of the United
States Northwest of the River
Ohio," Article III).
[33]
For example, State constitutions
across the decades reflecting
this requirement include the
1803 Ohio Constitution (Constitutions
(1813), 334, Ohio, 1802, Article
8, Section 3); the 1817
Mississippi Constitution (The
Constitutions of All the United
States According to the Latest
Amendments (Lexington,
KY: Thomas T. Skillman, 1817),
389, Mississippi, 1817, Article
9, Section 16); the 1858 Kansas
Constitution (House of
Representatives, Mis. Doc. No.
44, 35th Cong., 2nd Sess.,
February 2, 1859, 3-4, Article
1, Section 7, of the Kansas
Constitution); the 1875 Nebraska
Constitution (M. B. C. True, A
Manual of the History and Civil
Government of the State of
Nebraska (Omaha: Gibson,
Miller, & Richardson, 1885),
34, Nebraska, 1875, Article 1,
Section 4); etc.
[34]
See The
Constitution of North Carolina
42 (Raleigh: Rufus L.
Edmisten, Secretary of State,
1989) (Article 9, Section 1); Constitution
of the State of Nebraska 1-2
(Lincoln: Allen J. Beermann,
Secretary of State, 1992)
(Article 1, Section 4); Page's
Ohio Revised Code Annotated 24
(Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing
Co., 1994) (Article 1, Section
7).
[35]
United
States Code Annotated 1
(St. Paul: West Publishing Co.,
1987) ("The Organic Laws of
the United States of
America").
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Congress
was sitting in New York on April 30, 1789, when Washington
took the oath of office as Chief Executive. During
his inauguration, Washington took the oath as prescribed by
the Constitution but added several religious components to
that official ceremony. Before taking his oath of office, he
summoned a Bible on which to take the oath, added the words
"So help me God!" to the end of the oath, then
leaned over and kissed the Bible. [27]
His "Inaugural Address" was filled with numerous
religious references, [28]
and following that address, he and the Congress
"proceeded to St. Paul's Chapel, where Divine service
was performed." [29]
Only weeks
later, Washington signed his first major federal bill [30]
- the Northwest Ordinance, drafted concurrently with the
creation of the First Amendment. [31]
That act stipulated that for a territory to become a State,
the "schools and the means of education" in that
territory must encourage the "religion, morality, and
knowledge" that was "necessary
to good government and the happiness of mankind."
[32]
Conforming to this requirement, numerous subsequent State
constitutions included that clause, [33]
and it still appears in State constitutions today. [34]
Furthermore, that law is listed in the current federal code,
along with the Constitution, the Declaration, and the
Articles of Confederation, as one of America's four
"organic" or foundational laws. [35]
Washington would be appalled that today's Supreme Court
says it is "unconstitutional" for children in
public schools to be taught that Christianity is "necessary
to good government and the happiness of mankind."
Every single person who signed the Constitution believed
that it was, and intended for government to endorse
that idea.
In his Inaugural Address, Washington, speaking publicly
and officially as the new President of the United States,
said:
Such being the impressions under which I have, in
obedience to the public summons, repaired to the
present station, it would be peculiarly improper to
omit, in this first official
act, my fervent supplications to the Almighty Being, who
rules over the
universe, who presides in the
councils of nations, and whose providential
aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction
may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the
people of the United States a government instituted
by themselves for these essential purposes, and may
enable every instrument employed in its administration to
execute with success the functions allotted to his charge.
In tendering this homage to
the great Author of every public
and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your
sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my
fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No people can
be bound to acknowledge and adore the
invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men,
more than the people of the United States. Every step, by
which they have advanced to the character of an
independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by
some token of providential
agency. And, in the revolution just accomplished in
the system of their united government, the tranquil
deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct
communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be
compared with the means by which most governments have
been established, without some return of pious gratitude
along with a humble anticipation of the future blessings
which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising
out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too
strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with
me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the
influence of which the proceedings of a new and free
government can more auspiciously commence.
President Washington could not have said these things to
children in a public school classroom in 2013. (And not just
because American public school students are generally illiterate
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On the day after the Constitution
went into effect in March of 1789, America as a whole and
each one of the 13 united States was a
Christian Theocracy.
A Christian Theocracy seeks to give God all the glory.
It's hard to see that God rules today when the
State claims to be the Messiah.
Americans today have been misled by the myth of "the
Separation of Church and State." This mythical idea --
not found anywhere in the Constitution -- has come to mean
the separation of God
and State, with God being separated into the private
world of fantasy and imagination, and the State having omnipotent
power in "the real world."
In
1892 the United States Supreme
Court unanimously declared that
America was "a
Christian nation." The
Court went back to the discovery
of North America by Columbus,
and summarized all the official
legal charters and documents
that acknowledged our duty to
God and created the American
Theocracy, the most prosperous
and admired nation
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In
1989 the Court said, "This
Court squarely has
rejected the proposition that
the First Amendment is to be interpreted
in light of any favoritism for
Christianity that may have
existed among the Founders of
the Republic. "May
have?" America is no longer
a nation under God. As a result,
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The great conflict in Western Civilization
today is whether our world will become
The third reading assignment will be the
history of Christian Theocracy and "Western
Civilization."
Hundreds of years before Christ, the
prophet Daniel spoke of the first Christmas, the birth
of the Messiah in the days of the Roman Empire. That
empire was destroyed, and Christian Theocracy began
growing. The Emperor Justinian began Christianizing the
Eastern Roman Empire, and in the West kings like Alfred
and Ethelbert made the 10 Commandments the basis of new
legal systems. The "Common Law" began, with
a Christian foundation, and eventually found its way
into the Constitution of the United States, "a
Christian nation." No one book adequately chronicles
this history, so we will read from a number of books that
try:
Excerpts from these books are freely
available on the Internet. Only one of the authors agrees
with our radical conclusions (described below), but their
arguments lead to our conclusions if consistently held.
There are two stories that need to be told:
The first is how Christianity
destroyed the slavery and paganism of the
Roman Empire and inaugurated "Liberty Under
God," the foundation of "Western
Civilization" (476 A.D.- 1517 A.D.).
- The second story is the
story of America, and how
-
Calvinism
created America
(1517-1787)
America apostatized into an atheistic empire
(1787-2013)
and -- hopefully -- how America repented and became
an anarchist-theocracy
(2013 - ????).
To begin this second story, George
Washington would assign the reading of the Supreme Court's
opinion in the 1892 Decision Holy
Trinity Church vs. The United States and all the
historic legal documents cited by the Court.
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The fourth book
of the five most important books in the history of America
and Western Civilization is about
Capitalism
Capitalism or socialism?
This is the second great question of our age. It is
a derivative of the first great question, Theonomy
or Autonomy?
It's all about violence.
If you want to help the poor, can you
justify the use of government violence, or must you rely
on acts that come from the heart, voluntarily,
spontaneously, or as a result of persuasion, education,
enlightenment, and faith?
The Wealth of Nations
Many Americans today believe that the
government produces wealth. Others want the government to
redistribute wealth ("spread the wealth") to
special interests -- the most special of all interests, of
course, being "ME!" Such people wouldn't
even entertain the idea of abolishing the
current tyranny, much less actively work toward that goal,
because that which America's Founders described as
"tyranny" many in our day would praise as a big
benevolent brother. "The government can give us
whatever we want if we just vote the most generous and
compassionate politicians into office," they believe.
Those who disagree or resist will be
wiretapped, arrested, fined, imprisoned, or executed.
Adam Smith would be appalled at such
ignorance and immorality. Smith taught ethics at the
University of Glasgow and wrote a Theory
of Moral Sentiments.
In the same year as the Declaration of Independence was
written (1776), Adam Smith wrote a book entitled An
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of
Nations,
widely regarded as the first treatise on capitalism.
Capitalism is unquestionably one of the
most important features of Western Civilization.
Capitalist nations enjoy health and prosperity. Socialist
nations enjoy sickness and poverty, to the extent they do
not receive foreign aid or the fruits of capitalist
nations.
"Capitalism" is the opposite of
"socialism."
Socialist nations can't spread the wealth,
they can only spread the poverty by compulsion and threats
of violence. Socialism -- government
intervention in the economy -- is not just inefficient
and wasteful, it is immoral.
Smith's Wealth of Nations is
not easy reading, but Samuel Adams and George Washington
would insist that no true American can be without a basic
understanding of capitalism and the laws of a free
economy. Fortunately, in our day a more recent treatise on
capitalism as been written which is wonderfully
illuminating and readable: Capitalism
by Prof. George Reisman.
George Washington would assign Reisman's
text to any American who wanted to become an extraordinary
American. Consistent socialism is maximum
government. We believe consistent capitalism
is the exact opposite.
If you thought "Theocracy" was
controversial, please have a seat. The odds are good that
you are a victim of
The
Biggest Government Lie in all of Human History.
George Washington was the father of a
nation "under God" -- a Christian Theocracy. He
was also the father of nation of "LIBERTY
UNDER GOD." And if he could see the progress (and
regress) of the last 200 years, he would advocate
100% pure laissez-faire capitalism
You might not be offended at that idea.
Yet.
It means the absence of all
socialism. Every trace.
If you think about that for a minute or
two, you'll realize that another word for the complete
absence of socialism is "anarchism."
That word is explosive. That's because
you've been brainwashed. That's because you are a victim
of
The
Biggest Government Lie in all of Human History.
Pure capitalism is anarcho-capitalism,
the absence of government force. Prof. Reisman disagrees
with us, but his book will help us prove our point with
credibility and impeccable logic.
Are you a socialist or a capitalist?
You probably haven't even begun to answer
this question.
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Everybody talks about "smaller
government." Everybody agrees that some government
needs to be cut. How much? When and where do we stop
cutting?
In 1776, America's Founding Fathers proposed a form of
government which scandalized many. A government with NO
KING.
It was unprecedented.
How can a nation preserve social order -- how can a
government govern -- with no king? It would be like a
headless horseman!
It got worse. America's government would be a
government characterized by "the
Consent of the Governed."
This turned the entire concept of
"government" on its head. When the king has a
"divine right" to govern his subjects, the
subjects have no right to disagree with the king. Every
decree of the king is assumed to be valid, even if the
subjects don't like it. But in America, every action of
the government would be presumed to be INVALID unless
the governed consented to the government's act.
We The People would govern ourselves.
And -- We the People would govern the government.
We the
People would tell the government how to govern!
Breathtaking.
It rocked the world.
Only a Theocracy -- a people "under God" --
can be trusted with self-government -- capitalism and a
Free Market. And if religion and morality hold sway in a
nation, then we can safely criticize America's Founding
Fathers for replacing one government with another. They
themselves taught us not to trust civil governments for
social order, but to trust in religion
and morality. If you're having second thoughts about
enrolling in Samuel Adams
Coaching, read the
quotes on that
page. Take a glance at the linked pages on that
page. After reading the Bible, the Westminster
Standards, the history of Theocracy and Western
Civilization, and Reisman's treatise on Capitalism, you
will be ready for the next paradigm.
It will be bigger than "consent of the
governed."
If you and I don't follow the lead of George
Washington, the next generation will be engulfed in socialism
and the darkness of "false
religions" (to use the words of James Madison,
the "Father of the Constitution").
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The
message
of the angels to the shepherds on the first Christmas:
And this is
the sign unto you: Ye shall find a Babe wrapped in
swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the
heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest,
And peace on earth
among men in whom He is well pleased.
Is Peace on Earth possible? If you think so, many people
will call you an "unrealistic" "utopian."
They will say you're just not taking into consideration
"the depravity
of man."
For many people, "realism" = pessimism.
And for 100 million evangelical Americans, God has
predestined life to get worse and worse. Wars will
inevitably increase. Totalitarian military dictatorship
and tribulation are inevitable. God's experiment of
putting human beings on earth to cultivate the Garden and
build a New Jerusalem will be complete failure. Jesus will
end it all by coming again, in the cosmic equivalent of
"If it's your football and you're losing the game,
just take your football and go home."
One of the most popular objections to undertaking the
task of abolishing an atheistic
dictatorship by working to persuade archists
to repent (resign) is the belief that Christ is going to
return "any day now," and "you
don't polish brass on a sinking ship." Christians
are soon going to be "raptured," many believe,
so why work against the tyranny of "The New World
Order" or invest energy in a defense of "Liberty
Under God?"
This entire theological edifice, and the millions of
people believing it, did not exist in 1776. No theologian
was preaching "the
Rapture" in 1776. America's Founders felt
comfortable proclaiming their creation of a "Novus
Ordo Seclorum," a New Order to last for Ages.
According to the U.S. Dept. of Treasury, the motto on the
Great Seal "signifies a new American era" that
"will always grow, improve and build."
This optimism has virtually disappeared in the 21st
century.
The final book assigned for reading in our Samuel
Adams Coaching Program
will be a book that refutes modern
"pessimillennialism" and restores optimism and
confidence in God's ability to achieve His goals. This
book will give us courage to be Peacemakers. This book
will become one of the most important books in Western
Civilization because it will prevent the plunge into
pessimism and nihilism that threatens to bring down
Western Civilization itself.
We are searching diligently for this book.
In the meantime, We are going to assign the reading of
an 1876 book entitled The Parousia:
"Parousia" is the Greek word used for
"second coming." This book is simply a catalog
of all New Testament prophecies concerning "the
second coming." The result of looking at all the
evidence will be a "paradigm shift."
We admit that this book is not yet one of the most
important books in American history or the history of
Western Civilization. What we believe is that the idea
that Christians should not be a "city upon a
hill," a "light unto the world," or
"the salt of the earth," and should allow Satan
to rule or destroy the world, is an idea that has already
done much to undo everything George Washington and the
Founding Fathers worked for, as well as all that Calvin
and Augustine worked for. It is, in fact, turning over the
City of God and the Kingdom of Christ to the city of man
and the kingdom of Satan.
In other words, one of the most important ideas in the
history of Western Civilization is the refutation of the
idea that Western Civilization --Christian
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What does the Samuel
Adams Coaching Program
cost? Click here.
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We offer a Money-Back
Guarantee.
This is highly unusual among coaching programs.
- We guarantee you will not agree with every idea we
suggest during this year-long study of the Bible.
- We guarantee that if you take advantage of the
unlimited email, Discussion forums, teleseminars, and
coaching calls to engage these new ideas and let
"iron
sharpen iron," you will grow in your
understanding and love of the Bible.
- We guarantee that you will become more certain,
not less, that the Bible is the Word of God and worthy
of our trust and affection.
- We guarantee that the quality of our resources is
scholarly, and that the content of this year-long
study of the Bible is as challenging and rigorous as
any university, post-graduate, or seminary course on
the Bible.
- We guarantee that you will be confident that we have
an orthodox view of the Bible.
- You will get more out of this program than any
college or seminary class you've ever had.
- We guarantee you won't get an "F" that
will haunt you forever.
If you do not consider yourself to be a Christian, or
do not believe the Bible is reliable, we're willing to
work with you too. We invite you to enroll, and we will
offer ideas for your consideration such as this one:
The
Bible is Our Starting Point
We try to keep our daily assignments
strictly under 45 minutes a day, but we are thrilled to
discuss all issues in greater depth through email,
teleseminars, and coaching calls.
This is not a debate club.
This is not a UFO support group.
We're not here to debate arcane theories.
We're not here to survive paranoid conspiracies. We're
here to lay a foundation that will last for generations.
This is for people who are open-minded;
willing to listen respectfully to the ideas of Samuel
Adams, Adam Smith, George Washington, America's Founding
Fathers, colonial America, and the five great works that
you will be reading in the next 365 days. You don't have
to agree with every detail, but your goal must be to help
yourself and others become:
- an extraordinary
American
- an extraordinary
Christian
- an extraordinary
Human Being
If you're an atheist, your goal must not
be to get Christians to renounce their faith, but to help
them become more like Jesus Christ -- even if you don't
believe He existed. You must agree to be in pursuit of the
character qualities listed above.
Some Requirements
In order to qualify for the
double-your-money-back guarantee, there are some
requirements.
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You must create a blog.
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You must answer a couple of no-brainer
questions that any 5th-grader could answer if the
assignments were read with even minimal comprehension.
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Your answers must be posted on your
blog.
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You're on the honor system to cut
out an hour of the mainstream media and replace it
with our assigned readings.
There are more program requirements here.
Here
are the costs. This is a college level course. We're
asking for college-level tuition. This single webpage
contains over 1,000 links. Everything you need to get
started is on this page. Jump in. Get started.
But if you want to succeed, experience
shows you need more than just a curriculum. You need a
coach to hold you accountable and a community to support
you.
Here
are the costs of creating that coaching community.
Invest in yourself.
Invest in your family.
Invest in your future.
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This program is a college-level course with an iron-clad
money-back guarantee. You could expect to pay an average of
$7,992.00 to attend a course that meets every day and gives
you ample office hours with the professor, and a chance to
brainstorm with other students.
Our guarantee:
If you complete the assignments in this course, you will
be transformed into:
an
Extraordinary American
an Extraordinary Christian
an Extraordinary Human Being
or your entire enrollment fee will be refunded. No
college offers such a guarantee.
This coaching program is sponsored by a non-profit,
tax-exempt educational organization called "Vine
& Fig Tree." More
info here. The name comes from the Old Testament Prophet
Micah.
Seven Themes in Micah's
Vine & Fig Tree Prophecy
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Micah's
Prophecy (Micah 4:1-7)
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for audio |
Archetypes |
Controversy |
Comfort |
1 |
And it will come about
in the last days
[For the LORD of hosts has spoken.]
That the mountain of the House of the LORD
Will be established as the chief of the mountains
And it will be raised above the hills
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- Predestination
- vs. "Free Will"
- Chose birth?
- Nobody used "free will" to come into
existence
- Real issue: The nature of the Creator | Person
or Mud
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- Calvinism
- "Free Will" = imago dei | Image of
God
reason
planning for future
symphonies
- Providence
- Protection is an act of love
- Prayer = anti-deism
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"Last
Days"
V&FT "impossible
even for God."
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Predestinated tribulation?
No. Vine & Fig Tree |
2 |
And the peoples will
stream to it.
And many nations will come and say,
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD
And to the House of the God of Jacob, |
Audio |
Conversion
of the Gentiles
One
religion is superior to the
others
One has caught our attention: jihadism
blow-up vs. convert |
Peace is possible
Peace is inevitable |
3 |
That He may teach us
about His ways
And that we may walk in His paths."
For from Zion will go forth the Law
Even the Word of the LORD from
Jerusalem.
And He will judge between many peoples
And render decisions for mighty, distant nations. |
Audio |
The God who gave you
life deserves your respect
Every
Word this God speaks deserves your attention/obedience
Bible is not just for "private"
religion, "down in your heart"
Also for public policy
Textbook
for every area |
When Americans learned
the Bible in public schools,
America most prosperous, admired nation on earth
Now U.S. exports weapons/pornography
Laws
of Nature and of Nature's God.
"judgmental"
vs. Hitler |
4 |
[And each of them will
sit under his
Vine and under
his fig tree,] |
Audio |
Male
+ Female
Father
+ mother
Family = "undemocratic" |
When families are
functional, the State is unnecessary;
Archism is suppressed
Adams: mothers:
religion
+ morality |
5 |
Then they will hammer
their
swords into plowshares
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation will not lift up sword against nation
And never again will they train for war.
Thou
shalt not kill
Thou
shalt not steal
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Audio |
- Pacifism = "criminals will take over"
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- Really? More people will die under
pacifism than under archism?
More money will be confiscated
under pacifism than under archists?
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Myth:
- OT = violence, slavery
- Jesus = irrelevant utopian hippie; not
"practical" or "realistic."
Fact:
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6 |
And each of them will
sit under his
Vine and under his Fig
Tree,
With no one to make them afraid.
For the LORD of hosts has spoken. |
Audio |
Agrarianism vs.
technology
Environmentalism |
Garden of Eden / City of
God
Wilderness vs. Garden
"False
weights and Measures." |
7 |
Though all the peoples
walk
Each in the name of his god,
As for us, we will walk
In the Name of the LORD our God
forever and ever.
In that day, saith the LORD,
will I assemble her that halteth,
and I will gather her that is driven out,
and her that I have afflicted;
And I will make her that halted a remnant,
and her that was cast far off a strong nation:
and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion
from henceforth, even for ever. |
Audio |
social darwinism
immigration
vs. "enumerated
powers." |
works of mercy vs. focus
on "winners," celebrities, power-brokers |
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"Iron Sharpens
Iron" |
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- Purpose is not to have a fight or
shout-over like Fox News
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- Don't sign up if you just want to tell us we're
wrong.
Bereans,
search scriptures
"I'll have to think about this"
"This is what I've always been looking for" |
So here's how
Samuel Adams would coach you
to become an Extraordinary Christian:
- Cut out one hour of the mainstream archist
media every day.
- Rush Limbaugh
- "All Things Considered"
- Harry Potter
- Facebook
- Anything on network TV
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Free! |
- Replace that with one hour of prayerful (or
open-minded) reading of the Bible.
- Don't read the Bible like a Hallmarkฎ
Card, hoping to be "inspired."
- Read the Bible like an Anarchist Manifesto
- Read the Bible like an infallible,
inerrant God-dictated historical chronicle
of the evil of archism
and the folly of human power.
- Read the Bible like a Divine Blueprint for
a "Vine
& Fig Tree"
World of peace, harmony, contented living,
and the graceful ability to forgive archists
for imposing their will on you by force.
- Read the Bible like the powerful
Word of the God Who can transform you from
an archist
to an anarchist/servant.
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Free! |
- Become a mentor to help others become
Christian anarchists.
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Free! |
- Join a community of other Christian anarchists
who are working the same program.
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- Get a coach.
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The last two will cost you.
You can get 'em here.
We will actually pay you to become a mentor. Mentor two
people, and everything you need is free.
Each coaching semester begins when it is fully enrolled and funded.
Our coaching program is provided by Vine & Fig Tree, a non-profit, tax-exempt organization.
We use a popular internet strategy known as "Crowdfunding." This means when we receive enough funds from the crowd to cover the costs of administering the program, including membership site software, hosting, and labor, the semester begins. Each member of the crowd contributes whatever amount seems to be a good fit. To enroll, simply type in your email address and the amount you're willing to contribute.
Contribution Guidelines
- Our program is divided into three parts:
(1) A 7-day course describing the Vine & Fig Tree ideal. This course is always free.
(2) A 95-Day Orientation
Program; (Why 95?)
(3) The Full One-Year Daily Program. -
We suggest a tax-deductible donation of one dollar per
day to participate in the Orientation Program, but a
donation of any size will get you into the Orientation
Program.
- Jesus says, "The
laborer is worthy of his hire." We suggest you
pay your coach minimum wage for every hour of program
material he creates for you. We can bill your pledge in
convenient monthly payments.
- Because of the tornado, we are
suggesting an ultra-low price for both the Orientation and
the Full Coaching Program: $279.
- You're more than welcome to make a larger donation.
Type your email address in the form below. Then type in
the amount of a tax-deductible donation you are willing to
make to Vine & Fig Tree.
We will get back to you with details on getting started. No
Credit Card necessary right now. No obligation.
Listen
to these instructions to get started.
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When you sign up, you'll get
- an email every day, telling you what the assigned
readings are;
- an audio recording of the readings -- for car,
exercise, mindless work;
- access to a members group where additional
conversation and support can be found;
- Weekly (or more often) live Q&A webinars; share
progress, encourage one another.
- unlimited email questions to your coach
- ask a question about the readings
- ask for more proof or supporting evidence
- ask about how to implement a lesson in your
daily life
- Other
coaches charge 10 times as much.
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This introductory coaching program lasts
95 days.
Why 95?
Because we'll be reading Martin Luther's
95 Theses. Not because they are infallible (in fact, we
disagree with "Justification by Mere
Belief"), but because they were a landmark
in the history of western civilization, and because of the
historical association of the Bible, the Protestant
Reformation, and public schools. We'll read one a day.
Then we'll read one of Vine
& Fig Tree's presumptuous 95
Theses on Anarchism.
Then we'll talk about one character
trait of a Christian Theocrat/pacifist/anarchist
each day.
Then we'll read from a
thoroughly documented book which shows how the
"impractical" and "utopian" teachings
of Christ can become a public policy blueprint for a
harmonious "pacifist"
"anarchist" "theocratic"
society.
Free?
Obviously, you can read these books yourself, by yourself,
for yourself, for free, and even take advantage of all the
links on this website. Go for it.
We offer community and accountability.
Your tax-deductible investment creates commitment. By
making a tax-deductible donation to Vine
& Fig Tree, you make an investment in
your own progress. You've got some "skin in the
game."
By joining a community of like-minded
people, you'll be reminded of your commitment and you'll
be held accountable.
Of course, you can make a tax-deductible
donation to Vine &
Fig Tree independent of your participation
in this program. Use the form below.
Or mail your check to
"Vine & Fig Tree"
P.O. Box 179
Powersite, MO 65731
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Current Schedule
In Oct. 2008 my mother was hit by a
crippling case of pneumonia and other problems which left
her 80% mentally and physically disabled. In Feb 2012 our
home was destroyed by a tornado. She was airlifted to a
regional hospital and returned to me on a feeding tube.
- 12am/pm - flush feeding tube; give meds; change
Depends
- 2 - reset pump if necessary
- 4 - change Depends
- 6 - flush feeding tube, give meds
- 8 - change Depends
- 10 - reset pump if necessary
repeat above, 24/7
add physical therapy in the afternoons
laundry when needed.
etc., etc.
Run a profitable business in remaining
time.
Thanks for letting me whine!
I have written over 2,000 web pages for Vine
& Fig Tree and have never been paid a
penny. In fact, V&FT has been largely personally
funded. Because of the tornado, I can no longer fund
V&FT. That's why I'm trying to broaden the donor base
with this home-study program.
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Vine & Fig Tree Tornado Crisis Fund
Your donation is urgently
needed!
On February 29, 2012, a tornado tore
through Powersite, Missouri causing devastating damage.
The home of
Kevin Craig was destroyed. And as half of that house
served as the offices of Vine & Fig Tree, Inc., the
home of Vine & Fig Tree was lost, too.
Kevins mother, Marybeth, age 86,
suffered a serious head injury when the ceiling collapsed
on her. She has not recovered well.
The injury accelerated dementia and
her frail body is now sustained by a feeding tube. Kevin is her 24-hour a day caregiver,
with scheduled (and unscheduled) duties every 2 hours,
interrupting sleep and all
charitable fundraising efforts to continue the Vine &
Fig Tree ministry.
Now, nearly one
year after the tornado, the reconstruction of the
Powersite home and V&FT offices are nearing
completion, but not yet finished. Progress has been
made as quickly as possible. But, in a widespread
disaster area, resources are limited and demand is high
even for things like heavy equipment and dumpsters.
So, demolition and debris removal took three months before
actual reconstruction could commence.
Insurance provided for temporary
housing expenses for one year. The year has
elapsed. The Craigs and Vine & Fig Tree, Inc. do
not have the financial means to pay for everything.
Rent, the mortgage on the property under
construction, the additional medical expenses for
Marybeth's care . . . even with homeowner's and health
insurance, the costs of tornado damages and injuries are
very overwhelming.
The disaster may prove an
opportunity: The home is being rebuilt as a duplex
which can be leased or sold as an income producing
property for the benefit of the Craigs and V&FT, IF
AND WHEN IT IS FINISHED.
This opportunity may yet turn into
tragedy: The Craigs must keep the mortgage paid or
risk losing the newly rebuilt property to
foreclosure. Temporary housing rent and utilities
must be paid for the Craigs to have a place to live until
their home is ready for lease or sale. Marybeth will
continue to need medical care, skilled nursing, bathing
assistance, medicines, diapers and many other costs that
insurance does not cover. Insurance payments are delayed
in the backlog of claims paperwork that the carrier is
handling in the wake of Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast.
Dozens of telephone calls, emails and letters seem
to fall on deaf ears.
Kevin was
thinking he and his mother could live in the former home
of Marybeth's parents, until we received an email from a
cousin:
I do not think you have any idea that the ranch house is
uninhabitable. Two summers ago, I took
showers either in town or at the park. The shower
flows at a trickle and drains even slower. The
toilet is suspect and to live there would mean a new
septic system. The pipes to the clothes washer
will not work. The roof leaks in many places.
The rats have many homes inside including the
beds. Finally, right now we are paying over
$100 a month just to keep the temperature at 35
degrees. You would be better to rent something
than to try to pay a heating or cooling bill at that
house. Last summer I did not spend any nights at
the ranch house, and of course we have not repaired
anything in two summers. To drag your mother and
brother to that pit is a sin.
That's why were
asking for your help during this time of urgent
need. Your generous and tax-deductible donations to
Vine & Fig Tree, Inc. will be used to help real people
in real distress in the wake of a real disaster.
And, Lord willing, the ministry of Vine & Fig Tree
will live on -- when Kevin is no longer needed as 24-hour
caregiver for his Mom and she has a new home in heaven.
Please mail your donation check to:
Vine & Fig Tree, Inc.
PO Box 179,
Powersite, MO 65731
Alternatively, you can use PayPal to
safely transfer funds.
Thank you for your understanding and
generosity.
Your prayers will be enormously
appreciated. |
Samuel Adams Coaching is
administered by
Vine & Fig Tree
a non-profit, tax-exempt organization
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